Website monitoring · built for web agencies
Kockpit watches the websites your agency looks after — uptime, certificates, domains, DNS, SEO — and keeps the retainers that pay for them on the same screen. Because an agency's job is not the same job an ops team has.
The mismatch
You don't own these sites. You look after them — dozens of them, on hosting you didn't pick, for clients who pay you monthly and expect you to already know when something is wrong.
So the generic monitor tells you a site is down. It can't tell you which client that is, who to email, whether their certificate lapses next week, or whether you've already burned this month's hours on them.
That answer usually lives in a spreadsheet. Kockpit is what happens when it doesn't have to.
One screen, two halves
What's happening
Five-minute checks, incidents captured with a screenshot of what the visitor actually saw, and every expiry date read straight from the registry.
What it's worth
Retainers, logged hours against the allowance you agreed, and what is collectible this month — attached to the very sites being watched.
Illustrative figures. Currency, thresholds and billing cycles are yours to set.
Every night, every site
Uptime runs every five minutes. The rest runs nightly, and any of it can be re-run on a single site the moment you need an answer.
Two consecutive failures on both the www and non-www address, then a real browser is sent to look before anyone is woken. A firewall blocking a bot is not an outage.
Expiry dates and registrar read from the registry itself, so a lapsing domain becomes a dated warning weeks out instead of a Monday morning phone call.
Nameservers, MX, SPF, DMARC policy and DKIM selectors. When a client's mail quietly stops landing, this is usually where the answer already was.
Probes for the things that should never be public — environment files, repositories, database dumps, stack traces — and confirms a finding before reporting it.
Detects the stack, and flags a WordPress left several releases behind. The dangerous site is the silent one nobody has touched in a year.
Security headers, broken links across the site, real page-load metrics, and a pre-launch checklist — run per site, at the moment you actually care.
The details that only matter to us
Group sites however you actually think — by client, by the person responsible, by category. Whoever is attached to that tag hears about those sites, and nobody hears about the rest.
Before a site goes live: HTTPS redirect, favicon, a real 404, no placeholder copy, the copyright year, a reachable contact route, form protection. The list you keep meaning to write down.
One button turns a scan into the domain and a plain bullet per fixable issue. Nothing to reformat, no screenshots of a dashboard.
Log work against a client and see it against their included hours. Quiet over-servicing is how agency margin disappears, and it is invisible until someone counts.
Alerting
Down and recovered arrive immediately. Everything else — a nameserver that moved, a title that changed, a certificate coming due — waits for one daily digest.
And one unusual one
Every morning Kockpit emails you its own health — whether the checks ran, whether the digest drained, whether every site has someone to alert. It sends even when everything is fine, on purpose.
A monitor that has quietly died looks exactly like a month with no problems. If the heartbeat stops arriving, that silence is the alert.
Pricing
Kockpit runs an agency's own portfolio today, and is opening to a small number of other agencies first. Pricing will be published before general availability — early participants will be told exactly what it is before anything is charged.
Ask to be told firstEarly access
Tell us roughly how many sites you look after and what you use today. We're onboarding a handful of agencies at a time so each one gets set up properly.