Be notified when the services you depend on have an incident

Add the provider to Vendor Watch, choose the parts you rely on (the API rather than the website, for example) and the minimum impact, then pick the contacts to tell. When the provider posts an incident that matches, you get one alert, and one more when it is resolved. For a service without a public status page, or to see what your own users get, add a monitor of your own on the endpoint or the page.

Create a Slack contact in your account and choose it as one of the contacts of a vendor watch. HostTracker posts the provider's incident to Slack once and posts again when it is resolved. Microsoft Teams, Telegram, PagerDuty, Opsgenie and webhook contacts work the same way, and so do email and SMS. Voice calls are not used for vendor incidents.

Use two layers. Vendor Watch relays what the provider declares on its status page for the parts you use, such as an API. Your own monitors then show what your users get: an HTTP or API monitor on the endpoint you call, or a browser check of the page that depends on the provider. Vendor Watch links the two. An alert can say 'Affecting you: Checkout failing since 14:03' or 'No impact on your monitors so far', which states what your monitors saw during the incident, not that the provider caused it.

No. Vendor Watch relays what the provider publishes on its public status page; it does not detect an incident earlier. HostTracker reads each provider's status feed every 5 minutes, so an alert can trail the provider's own post by a few minutes. What it adds is context: whether your own monitors were hit during the incident.

StatusGator and IsDown also aggregate provider status pages, and they cover more consumer services than our catalog. What HostTracker adds is the monitoring account behind the aggregator: your own monitors from 300+ checkpoints, a 'did it hit you?' verdict on each alert, and status pages whose third-party rows can follow a provider. If all you need is a long list of services to follow, start with them; if you want vendor incidents next to your own uptime, that is where HostTracker fits.

Each provider's public status feed is read every 5 minutes. You get one message when an incident matches your watch and one when it is resolved, not one per update. You can mute a single incident for 2 hours without turning the watch off, and the picker shows how many alerts the last 60 days would have sent with your settings before you save.

The Free plan includes 1 provider, Personal 2, Solo 3, Webmaster 10 and Business 25. Enterprise has no limit, and neither does the 30-day trial, which needs no credit card. The limit applies when you add a watch; a downgrade never deletes one you already have.