I Built Watchup — An African Alternative to Sentry for Monitoring Services

Most developers don’t realize their app is down until users complain.

By then, the damage is already done.

That’s the problem I wanted to solve when I built Watchup.

👉 https://watchup.site

The Problem: You Don’t Know When Your App Breaks

If you're running any backend, API, or production service, you’ve probably faced this:

Your API goes down — you don’t notice

Errors spike — no alert

Performance drops — users silently leave

Unless you're actively watching logs 24/7, you’re blind.

Existing tools exist, but:

they’re expensive

overly complex

or built for large teams, not solo devs

What Watchup Actually Does

Watchup is a service monitoring and alerting tool.

It continuously checks your services and notifies you when something goes wrong.

You get alerts for:

downtime

errors

performance issues

Instead of guessing, you know immediately .

How It Works

At a high level:

Your Service → Watchup Monitoring → Issue…