Free while in Beta

Certs expire. Domains lapse. Servers go quiet. Find out before your users do.

PrettyGoodPing [Beta] keeps watch over the things that quietly break — expiring certs, lapsed domains, unresponsive servers and dead URLs — and lets you know first, from one dashboard.

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A PrettyGoodPing dashboard showing TLS/SSL and domain expiry alerts

Your dashboard, a few minutes after you add your first check.

Four checks. One dashboard.

Name what you want watched, and PrettyGoodPing runs the check on a schedule, grades the result, and tells you the moment it crosses a line.

🔒 SSL Expiration

The expiration date of a TLS/SSL certificate on any publicly reachable host or IP.

once per day · up to 25 per account in Beta

🌐 Domain Expiration

The registration expiry in WHOIS data for a domain name, without the host. 🧪 Experimental 🧪

once per day · up to 5 per account in Beta

🚀 URL HEAD

A HEAD request to a URL — GET if HEAD isn't supported. Anything outside 2xx/3xx is a failure.

every ~5 minutes · up to 5 per account in Beta

⏱️ Ping

Ping a host, with or without a port, and watch the response time as well as whether it answers.

every ~5 minutes · up to 5 per account in Beta

Every result lands in a zone

Results aren't pass or fail. Each one is graded info, warning or danger, and the whole row is tinted on your dashboard so you can see what needs attention from across the room.

Email and Slack notifications only fire in the danger zone — up to 12 per incident for the five minute checks, plus one more when the resource comes back. Dashboard alerts appear for all three zones.

Alert thresholds by check type
Check	danger	warning	info
🔒 SSL Expiration	10 days	20 days	30 days
🌐 Domain Expiration	3 weeks	6 weeks	9 weeks
⏱️ Ping	> 400 ms	> 200 ms	> 100 ms
🚀 URL HEAD / GET	HTTP failure	—	—

Set up in about a minute

1 Sign in with GitHub, GitLab or Google. There is no password to choose.
2 Add a check — pick a type, paste the hostname, domain or URL, add a label if you like, and tick email notifications.
3 Watch the dashboard. Results appear within a few seconds. Sort, filter by label, or re-run any check on demand.

Add your first check

The form to add a TLS/SSL certificate check

I built PrettyGoodPing because keeping track of certs, domains and servers for myself and for my clients had become one more thing to make my day longer than it needed to be. I wanted a simple and easy-to-use tool. It didn't need to do everything — it just had to be pretty good.

In most cases this will be a “pretty good” solution for smaller apps, hobby apps, self-hosted apps and pet projects. If you need something more robust, there are lots of enterprisey solutions out there which will ping every minute etc. PrettyGoodPing, on the other hand, is free while in Beta.