// Polar integration

Monitor Polar.Hear only when it matters.

Know what share of your subscriptions have stopped paying, before the churn report does.

What Beaam does with Polar

Beaam reads your Polar organization every minute and tracks how many subscriptions are past due or unpaid, as a share of your paying base. It alerts on the share, not the count, so the same threshold still means something after you grow.

What raises an incident

Curated deliberately: a short list worth your attention, not every metric that exists. Each one needs repeated evidence before Beaam calls it — a single bad reading is not an incident.

SignalWhen Beaam speaks up
Failing payments≥ 10% of subscriptions past due or unpaid → degraded.

Also collected, but quiet

Charted on the service page and there for context when something does break — but it will not wake you unless you ask it to.

setup

Designed to stay small

Paste a read-only Organization Access Token from your Polar organization settings.

Beaam applies sensible defaults. Threshold configuration is optional, not onboarding.

access

Read-only, and revocable

Beaam never writes to Polar. Credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a key held as a deploy secret, and are deleted immediately when you disconnect.

How Beaam handles credentials →

Questions

What does Beaam alert on for Polar?

1 signals can raise an incident: Failing payments. Everything else is collected for context but stays quiet until you opt in.

How long does it take to connect Polar?

Paste a read-only Organization Access Token from your Polar organization settings. Most connections are watching within a few minutes, and you can send a test alert immediately to prove the path works end to end.

Does Beaam need write access to Polar?

No. Beaam only ever performs read operations — there is no code path that writes to a connected provider. Worth separating from that: what Beaam *does* and what a token *permits* are different things. Where Polar offers a read-scoped credential, use it; some providers only issue tokens carrying broader rights than Beaam uses, which is a property of their API rather than of Beaam's behaviour. Scope it as narrowly as the provider allows. Credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before storage and deleted the moment you disconnect.

What does Polar monitoring cost?

The free plan covers two integrations and five watched services, with email, push, Slack and webhook alerts. Solo is $19/month flat for unlimited integrations and services, adding SMS — there is no per-host, per-check or per-alert metering.

Watching more than Polar?

Most stacks are several services with seams between them, and the seams are where the damaging failures hide. Beaam correlates across every connected integration, so a database problem reads as one incident rather than five alarms from five tools.