Pingward

It is 6:40 on a Sunday morning and your phone buzzes. DOWN — Checkout API Timeout after 10000ms You tap it and Pingward opens that monitor: how long it has been down, what the last checks returned, when it was last checked. You are looking at the problem before you are properly awake, and before anyone has had to tell you. Pingward for iPhone is the on-call half of a Pingward account — the part you carry. Add a monitor, watch it, and hear about it the moment it stops answering. THE ALERT A monitor is marked down only after it fails the number of consecutive checks it is set to, so a single blip does not page you. Then the push goes out. - The title leads with a red dot and the word DOWN, then the monitor name — status first, so a long name cannot push it off the end of the banner. - The body says what happened in plain words, with the raw error behind it: "DNS does not resolve for…