Montastic

Spec sheet

What it does

Montastic monitors websites continuously and sends email, SMS, or webhook alerts when a monitored service fails.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Free plan

YesRead 19 Sep 2026 · montastic.com

Paid from

5Read 19 Sep 2026 · montastic.com

Headquarters

Austin, Texas, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · montastic.com

Founded

2005Read 28 Sep 2026 · montastic.com

Alert channels

email,SMS,webhookRead 19 Sep 2026 · montastic.com

API authentication

API requests use an account key in the X-API-KEY HTTP header.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

API documentation repository

The official GitHub repository documents CRUD operations, links to the live reference, and includes a Python example.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Check interval

1 minuteRead 19 Sep 2026 · montastic.com

Company founded

LinkedIn lists Metadot as founded in 2000.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company headquarters

Metadot lists its headquarters at 14400 Piper Glen Drive, Austin, Texas 78738-6528, USA.Read 15 Oct 2026 · metadot.com

Company legal name

Metadot Corporation is identified as Montastic’s maker and product owner.Read 15 Oct 2026 · metadot.com

Company size

LinkedIn lists Metadot’s company size as 11–50 employees and describes an office of about 20 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Contract terms

Montastic says subscriptions have no long-term contract and can be cancelled from the account page.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Current service status

The public status page showed the home app and SMS/email notification services operational and reported no incidents from October 1 through October 13, 2026.Read 15 Oct 2026 · mon.montastic.io

DNS monitoring

Montastic can monitor DNS record changes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

False-alarm handling

Montastic says it double-checks failures before sending alerts to reduce false alarms.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Firewall requirements

The support page publishes seven fixed Montastic IP addresses that customers can allow through firewalls.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.metadot.com

Incident management

The status-page interface supports creating incidents or maintenance events and changing service status.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.io

Independent description

AlternativeTo describes Montastic as a freemium, proprietary uptime-monitoring service with email, web, RSS, and widget status access.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alternativeto.net

Independent review availability

MobilesTalk’s Montastic page states that it has no reader reviews yet.Read 15 Oct 2026 · mobilestalk.net

Integration: Das Keyboard

Das Keyboard documents a Montastic Q applet that displays monitored website up/down state on compatible keyboards.Read 15 Oct 2026 · daskeyboard.com

Keyword monitoring

The API description says monitors can alert when a keyword appears or disappears on a page.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Licence

AlternativeTo classifies Montastic as proprietary rather than open source; no open-source software licence is stated for the hosted product.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alternativeto.net

Limit: advanced monitoring criticism

The comparison criticized the product for lacking content-change detection, failure screenshots, email-health monitoring, domain-expiry tracking, and WhatsApp alerts.Read 15 Oct 2026 · novauptime.com

Limit: check interval criticism

A competitor comparison published April 1, 2026 criticized Montastic for a five-minute minimum interval and said faster checks were unavailable at that time.Read 15 Oct 2026 · novauptime.com

Limit: incident workflow criticism

The comparison said Montastic sends down/up emails but lacks incident timelines, ongoing reminders, and audit-style incident tracking.Read 15 Oct 2026 · novauptime.com

Limit: scale criticism

The same independent comparison characterized Montastic as capped at 50 URLs and unsuitable for organizations needing more monitors.Read 15 Oct 2026 · novauptime.com

Mobile availability

MobilesTalk reports that Montastic is web-based and that the maker lists no Android or iPhone app.Read 15 Oct 2026 · mobilestalk.net

Monitor limit

15Read 19 Sep 2026 · montastic.com

No installation agents

The maker says monitoring runs without installing agents or deploying code.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Open-source offer

Montastic offers its Business plan free for the lifetime of qualifying open-source projects after application.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Praise: free tier

Nova Uptime’s comparison credits Montastic with a larger free URL allowance than the compared service and inclusion of a basic public status page.Read 15 Oct 2026 · novauptime.com

Praise: simplicity

Nova Uptime’s comparison says Montastic is simple to set up and suited to basic up/down email alerts.Read 15 Oct 2026 · novauptime.com

Privacy security statement

The privacy policy says personally identifiable information is restricted to authorized employees, agents, and contractors who agreed to confidentiality.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Product age

Montastic’s own site says the service has existed since 2005.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Response analytics

Response-time history is collected for checkpoints and can be displayed on status pages.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.io

REST API

Montastic publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 REST API for creating, reading, updating, deleting, checking, enabling, and disabling checkpoints.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

SDK availability

The official developer materials expose a Python example but do not identify a packaged SDK.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Server monitoring

YesRead 19 Sep 2026 · montastic.com

SSL expiry alerts

YesRead 19 Sep 2026 · montastic.com

SSL monitoring

The product monitors certificate expiration and warns before certificates expire.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Status embeds

Status information can be embedded as a Git README badge, website popup, or widget inside an app, website, or help desk.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.io

Status pages

Users can publish branded public status pages on a Montastic subdomain with incidents, maintenance notices, and subscriber notifications.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.io

Support documentation

Metadot’s help center explains that Montastic first tries HTTP HEAD, retries with GET, then uses a second monitoring robot before declaring failure.Read 15 Oct 2026 · support.metadot.com

Uptime checks

The service checks HTTP, HTTPS, ping, and network ports from multiple global locations.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.com

Webhooks

Webhooks can trigger customer scripts in real time when monitoring events occur.Read 15 Oct 2026 · montastic.io

Plans and prices

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