Monitor Stripe.Hear only when it matters.
Watch payment availability, payouts, billing, fraud, and webhook delivery.
What Beaam does with Stripe
Beaam uses a read-only restricted key to watch the directly connected Stripe account every minute. Live and test mode are kept separate.
What raises an incident
Curated deliberately: a short list worth your attention, not every metric that exists. Signals that can blip need repeated evidence before Beaam calls them; a reading that is definitive by nature — the provider reporting a failure outright — alerts on the first observation.
| Signal | When Beaam speaks up |
|---|---|
| Payment availability | A meaningful payment-failure share, disabled charging, or disabled payouts raises attention. |
| Money movement and billing | Failed payouts, refunds, and invoice finalization are monitored. |
| Webhook delivery | Events still undelivered after a 10-minute grace period raise attention. |
| Risk | New disputes and early fraud warnings are surfaced for action. |
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.
- Payment volume and reasons
- Billing follow-up
- Payment silence
- Webhook endpoints
What connecting needs
- A restricted key (
rk_live_orrk_test_) with read access to Account, Events and Webhook Endpoints. Unrestrictedsk_secret keys are refused. - There is no sign-in option for Stripe.
What Beaam will not tell you
Stated rather than discovered later. Some of these are deliberate — an alert that is not about your system is noise — and some are simply where this integration's view ends.
- Stripe Connect child accounts are not covered — only the account the key belongs to.
- The payment-failure-rate alert waits for at least 10 attempts in the window.
- Payment silence and disabled-webhook-endpoint alerts are off by default.
- Payouts, refunds and disputes are business signals, not proof that Stripe is down.
- Some Standard accounts omit their requirements list, and then past-due requirements cannot be reported.
setup
Designed to stay small
Connect an rk_live_ restricted key with Account, Events, and Webhook Endpoints read access.
Beaam applies sensible defaults. Threshold configuration is optional, not onboarding.
access
Never writes, and revocable
Beaam never writes to Stripe. Credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a key held as a deploy secret, and are deleted immediately when you disconnect.
Questions
What does Beaam alert on for Stripe?
4 signals can raise an incident: Payment availability, Money movement and billing, Webhook delivery, Risk. Everything else is collected for context but stays quiet until you opt in.
How long does it take to connect Stripe?
Connect an rk_live_ restricted key with Account, Events, and Webhook Endpoints read access. 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 Stripe?
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 Stripe 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 Stripe monitoring cost?
The free plan covers two integrations and five watched services, with email, Slack and webhook alerts. Solo is $19/month flat for unlimited integrations, services and organizations, with collaborators included — there is no per-host, per-check or per-alert metering.
Watching more than Stripe?
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.
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