Your services go to sleep. We fix that with a single click.
Everything you need to know about keeping your endpoints warm and your users happy.
What's the problem Keep Alive solves?
Free and low-tier hosting puts your apps to sleep after inactivity. Your users hit your endpoint, wait 10+ seconds for a cold start, and bounce. Game over.
Why not just use existing solutions?
Current options suck:
- Cron jobs: Requires server configuration you might not have access to.
- Uptime monitors: Bloated dashboards, excessive notifications, high costs.
- Custom scripts: One more thing to maintain, deploy, and worry about.
How does Keep Alive fix this?
Single endpoint. One click. Your service stays awake. That's it.
- No account setup
- No complex configuration
- No BS email notifications
- Just works™
Is this actually free?
Yes. Free tier gives you:
- Monitor up to 2 URIs
- Default 5-minute ping interval
- Basic status monitoring
Only need more when using at scale? Subscribe.
What does the paid tier include?
Everything in free, plus:
- Unlimited URIs
- Custom ping intervals (down to 1 minute)
- Request customization (headers, methods, body)
- Response validation
- Advanced logging
Real-world scenario: Free Render Web Service
Render's free tier puts your service to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity. Your backend takes 30+ seconds to spin up again.
User experience: Click. Wait. Wait some more. Close tab. Never return.
Keep Alive solution: Add your Render URL, we ping it every 5 minutes, it stays warm. Your users never wait again.
Real-world scenario: Serverless Function Cold Starts
Serverless functions on AWS Lambda, Vercel, or Netlify go cold after inactivity. First request triggers a cold start, slowing down critical API responses.
Normal approach: Accept the performance hit or implement complex warming solutions with CloudWatch events or third-party services.
Keep Alive approach: Paste your function URL, we keep it warm. One and done.
Real-world scenario: Railway Free Tier Sleeping
Railway's free tier provides 500 hours/month but puts services to sleep to conserve your hours.
Common workaround: Custom cron job on another service to ping your application (more infra to manage).
Keep Alive solution: Add your Railway URL, customize the ping interval to your usage patterns, keep your app responsive while still managing your free tier hours.
Privacy & Security
We don't store your endpoint response data. We only track URI status and response time.
All requests are made server-side to avoid CORS issues and keep your endpoints secure.