Tinymon

Tinymon is simple, affordable monitoring built for solo developers and early-stage teams — the people still iterating, shipping fast, and watching every dollar of budget. Where most observability platforms are too expensive and too feature-heavy for a small project, tinymon focuses on the essentials a small team actually needs: catching errors before users do, knowing the moment your app goes down, and getting pinged when a scheduled job silently fails. It's three kinds of monitoring — errors, uptime, and cron — in one tool, at one flat price. The ethos is deliberate: tinymon is an on-ramp, not a toll booth. It's made for your early days, and the day you outgrow it and need a heavyweight platform, you graduate to one with our blessing — no hard feelings.

Error monitoring works through a lightweight SDK that drops into your app with a few lines of code and zero runtime dependencies. Once installed, it automatically captures unhandled exceptions with full stack traces and the console breadcrumbs leading up to the failure, groups identical errors so your dashboard stays signal and not noise, and — for minified JavaScript — resolves source maps so you see your original code instead of a mangled bundle. Beyond errors, you can add uptime monitors that check your URLs on a schedule and alert you the instant they go down, and heartbeat/cron monitors that expect a regular ping from your scheduled jobs and alert you when one misses its window. Every alert — a new error, a regression, downtime, or a missed cron — can be routed to email, Slack, Discord, or a webhook.

Key features

• Flat pricing: one predictable price — $9/mo flat (free during beta) — covering unlimited projects and 50,000 errors a month, with no per-seat fees and no confusing tiers.
• All-in-one monitoring: error tracking, uptime checks, and cron/heartbeat monitoring in a single tool.
• Easy integration: a few lines of code, SDKs for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Ruby with zero runtime dependencies, plus framework helpers for Express, Fastify, Flask, Django, FastAPI, and Rails.
• Smart, multi-channel alerts: notifications for new errors, regressions, downtime, and missed jobs via email, Slack, Discord, or webhooks — only when something needs attention.
• Release tracking & regression detection: see which release an error first appeared in, and tinymon auto-reopens a resolved error if it comes back, telling you exactly which deploy broke it.
• Search & triage: search and filter across your issues, and resolve, ignore, or silence them to keep the list meaningful.
• Source maps: upload your maps and get readable, original stack traces for minified frontend code.
• GitHub integration: turn an error into a GitHub issue — stack trace and back-link included — in one click.
• Privacy by design: events are scrubbed for common PII server-side, only a minimal user identifier is captured, no IP is stored by default, and a beforeSend hook lets you redact anything before it leaves your app.
• Zero-config setup: ready in under two minutes — no agents, no YAML, no dashboards to build.

How it works

To get started, you add the SDK to your application and initialize it with a project DSN. For web apps, the framework helpers capture unhandled request errors automatically; for serverless functions or short-lived scripts, a flush method ensures events are sent before the process exits. The SDK collects, scrubs, and transports events asynchronously through a small bounded queue, so it never blocks your app or balloons memory — and if the network drops, queued events retry without losing data. Uptime and cron monitors run on tinymon's side, so there's nothing extra to install: just point them at a URL or drop a ping into your job.

Common use cases

• Startups: squash bugs in early releases before they reach a wider audience, and know the moment a launch-day deploy takes the app down.
• Side projects: track stability, uptime, and nightly jobs for small apps without a heavy subscription or management overhead.
• Backends & microservices: monitor several services under one flat plan, with per-service error tracking and uptime checks.
• APIs: capture unexpected exceptions in endpoints and catch regressions right after a deploy.
• Scheduled jobs: get alerted when a backup, cron task, or background worker silently stops running.