About Spectate

Spectate is built by Fjordlane Holding B.V. in Papendrecht, the Netherlands, and is a tool for monitoring services. It emphasizes monitoring across regions and providing on-call workflows and status pages for customers.

Spectate describes its approach to operation as independent and self-funded, without investors, and priced for whole teams. It states that pricing is per monitor rather than per seat, aiming to avoid rationing who gets paged. The interface is designed to be calm until something is wrong, then it explains what to check first.

The documentation notes that Spectate is European by default and billed in euros, with a Dutch company handling data. The product emphasizes a public data handling posture and alignment with EU law.

The company background details its legal name and address and invites users to set up a first monitor quickly with a 14-day free trial. It states the aim of helping teams know what is up and what to do, while providing a status page for customers on their own domain.

Use cases

Teams monitor websites and APIs with on-call workflows
Organizations inform customers via status pages

Key features

Uptime monitoring across multiple regions
Escalation paths and on-call schedules
Incident management and Slack integration for on-call actions
Status pages for customers
Screenshots and response data for outages
Monitoring of websites, APIs, domains and servers
Multi-region checkers and performance insights
Public API and MCP server for automation

Pricing

Starter

€37.50/ month

20+ monitors and hosts
Checks every 60s
3 team members
1 status page, 250 subscribers
10 SMS and voice credits a month

Team

€48/ month

80+ monitors and hosts
Checks every 30s
Unlimited team members
5 status pages, 2,500 subscribers
Private status pages

Business

€125/ month

250+ monitors and hosts
Checks every 30s
Unlimited team members
Unlimited status pages, 25,000 subscribers
Private status pages

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Frequently asked questions

What is Spectate?

Spectate is an uptime monitoring and incident management platform from the Netherlands. It checks websites, APIs, servers, certificates and domains, pages the right person through escalation paths and on-call schedules, runs incidents with Slack, and keeps customers informed with status pages.

How much does Spectate cost?

You pay per monitor or host: €0.75 on Starter (from 20, €15 a month), €0.60 on Team (from 80, €48 a month) and €0.50 on Business (from 250, €125 a month), excluding VAT. Yearly plans cost 10 months.

Where is my data stored?

Spectate is built and run by a Dutch company, and your account data, monitors, alerts and incidents are stored in the EU.

Does Spectate replace PagerDuty or Opsgenie?

For most small and mid-sized teams, yes. Spectate has on-call schedules with rotations and overrides, escalation paths with branches and working hours, and pages by email, SMS and phone call with press 1 to acknowledge.

Can I use my own domain for the status page?

Yes, on every plan. Point a CNAME at your page's own target and Spectate verifies the domain and issues the TLS certificate automatically.

Is there a free plan?

No. Spectate has no free plan, but every new team gets a 14-day trial of the Team plan without payment details.

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