Fajita

Fajita is an open source uptime monitoring platform designed for solo founders, small teams, indie hackers, and agencies who need to monitor websites, APIs, SSL certificates, and cron jobs. It verifies failures before alerting teams, reducing false alarms and ensuring timely incident communication through multiple channels. Users can self-host the core platform or use the managed Fajita Cloud service, which handles infrastructure, upgrades, and notifications. The product emphasizes simplicity, transparency, and operational calm during incidents, providing public status pages and detailed uptime history.

Who is it for?

Solo founders, small teams, indie hackers, and agencies needing reliable uptime monitoring without complex infrastructure

Problem

Outages and software failures often go unnoticed until customers report them, causing delays in response and damage to reputation. Traditional monitoring can generate false alarms or require complex setups.

Solution

Fajita monitors websites, APIs, SSL certificates, and cron jobs from the outside, verifies failures before alerting, and sends clear incident notifications via email, Slack, Discord, and webhooks. It offers public status pages and can be self-hosted or used as a managed cloud service.

What makes it unique

• Open source core monitoring platform under AGPL-3.0
• Verification step reduces false alarms before alerting
• Simple setup with no agents or SDKs required
• Managed cloud option for operational convenience

• Website monitoring

  Monitors website availability, response time, and status codes from the outside.

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• API monitoring

  Checks API endpoints for uptime and correct responses.

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• SSL monitoring

  Tracks SSL certificate validity and expiry dates.

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• Cron monitoring

  Monitors cron jobs and background tasks via heartbeat URLs.

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• Verified alerts

  Re-checks failures before alerting to reduce false alarms.

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• Incident communication

  Sends alerts via email, Slack, Discord, and webhooks with clear incident and recovery messages.

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• Public status pages

  Publishes status updates, incident timelines, and uptime history for customers.

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• Self-host or cloud

  Option to self-host the open source core or use managed Fajita Cloud service.

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Business model

SAAS

Audience

B2B

Platforms

web · api

Pricing model

subscription

Open source

Yes

Value proposition

Fajita provides reliable, open source uptime monitoring that verifies outages before alerting your team, ensuring you know about issues before your customers do.

Mentioned on site

Stripe

Metadata

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Other

Google AnalyticsVercelCloudflareReact

Protocol

HHTTP/3

RUM

CCloudflare Browser Insights

Web framework

Next.js