PageLantern

What PageLantern is

PageLantern is a SaaS monitoring service for websites, APIs, DNS records, certificates, domains, ports, and scheduled jobs. Its checks cover uptime, SSL certificates, DNS and domains, pages and flows, and heartbeats. Monitoring runs externally: setup can use a URL, domain, API endpoint, DNS record, certificate, or heartbeat URL without installing an agent on the monitored site.

The Free plan includes 15 monitors, five-minute checks, one user, 30 days of history, one hosted status page, and one alert channel. Starter supports 50 monitors and one-minute checks; Team supports 500 monitors, including 30-second checks for 25 critical monitors. The paid plans include hosted Playwright browser checks with screenshot, trace, snapshot, and console artifacts. Starter and Team also support OpenAPI import and operation selection, Postman import, and environment import. Alerts can be sent through email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, webhooks, PagerDuty, and SMS. PageLantern says credential-bearing fields are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM on every plan; heartbeat tokens and public status-page subscriber email addresses are stored in clear text. PageLantern LLC is based in Lakeway, Texas.

Who it suits

PageLantern is aimed at founders, platform teams, developers, managed service providers, agencies, and operators who need external monitoring for services and infrastructure. Its integrations and API imports suit teams that want alert routing or to bring in existing API definitions and Postman environments.

Limits

The Free plan has 15 monitors, five-minute checks, one user, 30 days of history, one hosted status page, and one alert channel. It has no time limit, but monitoring pauses after 45 days without account sign-in; signing in resumes it.

Getting started

1. Open the PageLantern website.
2. Create monitoring using a URL, domain, API endpoint, DNS record, certificate, or heartbeat URL.
3. Choose the Free plan or a paid plan based on monitor limits and check intervals.
4. Connect an alert channel such as email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, a webhook, PagerDuty, or SMS.
5. For Starter or Team, import OpenAPI definitions or Postman data if useful.

Verdict

Choose PageLantern if you need externally configured monitoring across websites, APIs, DNS, or scheduled jobs, with alert channels and hosted status pages. Look elsewhere if your selection requires independently audited security certifications: PageLantern says it has none of SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, or similar certifications.