// why beaam

The honest case,including where we don't fit.

Everything you'd reasonably want to check before pointing a monitoring tool at your production stack.

The case, in detail

compare

vs Datadog

Powerful, wrong shape. Per-host pricing punishes a distributed indie stack, and you have to become an SRE to extract the value.

compare

vs Better Stack & UptimeRobot

A 200 response is not "working". Uptime tools can't see a Lambda error rate, a webhook backlog or replica lag — and never correlate across them.

evidence

What we can prove

No invented customer logos or fabricated uptime numbers. What is actually verified, and what is not yet.

trust

Security & isolation

How credentials are encrypted, why the watchdog runs on a separate cloud account, and what happens to your data when you leave.

questions

FAQ

The things people ask before signing up, answered without marketing hedging.

cost

Pricing

Free, or $19/month flat. No per-host maths, no per-alert metering, no seat count.

Where Beaam is the wrong choice

Worth saying plainly, because finding out later is expensive. Beaam is not for you if you have a dedicated SRE or DevOps function and want deep configurability — we deliberately don't build the knobs. It's not for you if you need SOC 2, SSO or an audit trail on day one. And if all you need is "is my marketing site up?", a free uptime pinger already does that well; you don't need us.

Beaam is for the technical founder running a real product on a handful of services, with no one to delegate monitoring to, who has been burned by both a false alarm and a missed incident.