Your Store Makes Money at 3 AM.
Who's Watching It?
Stop discovering outages from your revenue dashboard the next morning. FlareWarden watches your store 24/7 — and alerts you before customers even notice.
$29/month after trial. Card required. Cancel before day 7 to avoid a charge.
Or start on the Free plan, no card needed- 7-day free trial
- Cancel any time before it ends
- Full Business plan features
- Business plan from $29/mo
Works with every e-commerce platform
These Happen Every Day. Most Stores Find Out Too Late.
HTTP status checks say “all clear” while revenue quietly bleeds.
Your Page Loaded Fine. The Checkout Form Didn't.
Your checkout page returned 200 OK all morning. Your HTTP monitoring showed green. But a deploy broke the checkout form — the button was gone, the price showed $0.00, and the "Add to Cart" link led nowhere. You found out when revenue flatlined at noon. Customers didn't complain. They just closed the tab.
What this costs you
HTTP status checks can't see broken buttons, missing prices, or empty product pages. Content monitoring can.
Your Ad Budget Just Funded a Broken Page
You launched a Facebook campaign driving 5,000 visitors to your store. Two hours in, your payment gateway went down. The ad kept running. The budget kept spending. Every click landed on a checkout that couldn't process a single order. You paid to send customers to a dead end.
What this costs you
Every dollar spent driving traffic to a down store is gone. And so are those customers.
Your Flash Sale Crashed and Burned
You spent weeks preparing inventory, designing email campaigns, and scheduling social posts. Launch day arrives, traffic surges, and your site buckles under the load you paid to create. The irony is brutal: the more successful your marketing, the harder your store falls. By the time you notice, the buzz is gone and customers have moved on.
What this costs you
The more successful your marketing, the more each minute of downtime costs you.
The Math on Downtime
Every second your store is offline, revenue walks out the door. Here's what the numbers say — and how FlareWarden closes the gap.
$7/min
what a $10K/day store loses every minute checkout is down — plus the customers who never come back
17 regions
probe locations on 6 continents — not every check runs from all of them
From Outage to Confirmed Alert in Minutes
When something breaks, every second counts. Here's how it plays out.
Error starts on checkout page
Your checkout page begins returning 500 errors. Customers see a blank page or a generic error message. They start leaving.
Detected on next check
FlareWarden's next scheduled check (every 30 seconds) hits your checkout page and receives a 500 status code. The failure is recorded on that check.
Re-checked from other regions
We ask other regions to re-check the failure; if any of them sees your checkout up, no alert goes out. That filters out a local network glitch.
Alert sent — you're already on it
Once the confirmed failure has lasted two minutes, your alert channels fire together: email, Slack, Discord, Google Chat, Microsoft Teams and signed webhooks to your own systems. Within minutes of a confirmed failure, you're investigating. Compare that to finding out hours later from your revenue dashboard.
E-Commerce Problems That HTTP Checks Miss
Stripe
api.stripe.com
PayPal
api.paypal.com
Shopify Payments
Elevated latency
CDN
cdn.yourstore.com
Monitor What Your Store Depends On
Your store isn't just your website. It's Stripe processing payments, CloudFront serving images, Algolia powering search, and a dozen other services running behind the scenes. When any one of them falters, your customers feel it.
FlareWarden watches your providers' status pages alongside your site — so when Shopify Payments reports elevated latency, you see it next to your own checks.
Know When Your Products Break, Not Just Your Server
Your checkout page returns 200 OK but the Add to Cart button is gone. HTTP monitoring says everything's fine. Content monitoring catches what HTTP status codes can't — broken buttons, wrong prices, missing products, and empty collection pages.
Set up checks visually with the point-and-click picker. No CSS selectors or code needed. Monitor the elements that directly affect revenue.
Suggested Monitors in 2 Minutes, Not 2 Hours
Enter your store URL and Smart Setup reads its DNS records and page HTML. It suggests content checks for what it finds on the page, such as error-message detection and a page-title check, and the payment processors, CDNs and other third-party services it recognizes as dependency monitors.
You choose which suggestions to keep, and each uses one monitor. Add your checkout and other key pages as monitors of their own. Works with Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, and custom platforms.
Show Customers You're On Top of It
During a checkout outage, your status page auto-updates so customers know you're fixing it — instead of silently abandoning their carts. No more “is the site down?” emails flooding your support inbox.
Show store-relevant services (Storefront, Checkout, Payment Processing, Product Search) with real uptime history. Transparency builds trust — and trust brings customers back after an incident.
Get Alerted Where You Already Work
When your checkout breaks at 3 AM or a bestseller shows “Out of Stock” unexpectedly, the right people hear about it once it's confirmed — through the channels they already use.
Email alerts once a failure is confirmed, with full incident details, response times, and affected endpoints.
SlackBeta
Post to your on-call or incident channel. Your team sees it where they already work.
DiscordBeta
Native embeds straight into your Discord server for teams that live in Discord.
Google Chat & TeamsBeta
Post store alerts to the Google Chat space or Microsoft Teams channel your team already watches.
Webhooks
Signed JSON to any HTTPS endpoint you run, for your own incident tooling.
Status page subscribers
Customers who subscribe to your status page get email updates during incidents.
Common Questions
Quick answers for e-commerce store owners.
On Business and above, FlareWarden checks your checkout page every 30 seconds. When a check fails, we ask other regions across our 17 locations to re-check it; if any of them sees your checkout up, no alert goes out. If the failure is confirmed and persists for 2 minutes, you're alerted by email, Slack, Discord, Google Chat, Microsoft Teams or webhook. The 2-minute wait filters out brief network blips. On the free plan, checks run every 5 min.
Yes. Dependency monitoring tracks the services your store relies on, including Stripe, PayPal, Shopify Payments, Square, and any other API endpoint you configure. When a payment provider reports issues or elevated latency, you're alerted and can take action, whether that's displaying a message to customers, switching to a backup processor, or simply being ready with a response when support tickets arrive.
It's very unlikely. Before alerting, we ask other regions to re-check a failure; if any of them sees your site up, no alert goes out. If only one region has trouble reaching your site (which is common during traffic spikes when a single monitoring location gets congested), you won't receive an alert. This is especially important during Black Friday, flash sales, and other high-traffic events when false alarms would be most disruptive.
Yes. Content monitors watch the actual content on your pages — check that the Add to Cart button is present, verify prices are in the expected range, detect “Out of Stock” text, count product images, and alert on unexpected changes. Set up checks visually with the point-and-click picker. No code needed. Content checks run as often as every 30 sec when the page supports conditional requests, and otherwise every 5 minutes.
About 2 minutes. Enter your store URL into Smart Setup, and it suggests content checks for the page and the payment processors, CDN and other third-party services it recognizes. Keep the suggestions you want, adjust check intervals if you like, and add your checkout page as a monitor of its own. No configuration files, no agents to install, no code changes. It works with any publicly accessible URL.
FlareWarden works with every e-commerce platform because it monitors from the outside, just like your customers experience your site. That includes Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Squarespace Commerce, Wix Stores, and fully custom-built stores. If your customers can reach it in a browser, FlareWarden can monitor it.
During high-traffic events, your store's third-party dependencies are under the most strain. Dependency monitoring watches the status pages of your payment gateways, CDN, search provider, and shipping APIs. When Stripe reports elevated latency or your CDN posts an incident, you see it beside your own checks. That gives you time to activate fallbacks, display status messages, or contact your provider's support.
The free plan includes 15 monitors, checked every 5 min, with cross-region validation, alerts by email, Slack, Discord, Google Chat or Microsoft Teams (up to 2 webhook destinations), and a public status page. That's enough to cover your storefront, checkout page and a couple of key dependencies. When you need 30-second checks, more monitors or a status page on your own domain, try Business free for 7 days. The free plan has no time limit and needs no credit card.
It depends on your store's revenue. A store doing $10,000/day loses roughly $7 per minute when checkout is completely down. A store doing $100,000/day loses $70/minute. A 5-hour undetected outage can easily cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. During peak events like Black Friday, when traffic is multiples of normal, the losses scale accordingly. The real cost also includes lost ad spend, abandoned carts that never return, and long-term customer trust erosion.
Your Store Never Sleeps. Your Monitoring Shouldn't Either.
Your store makes money around the clock. FlareWarden watches it around the clock, so a 3 AM outage doesn't become a morning surprise.
The Business plan is $29/mo — and there's a free plan that never expires. One prevented overnight outage covers months of monitoring.
Try Business free for 7 days$29/month after trial. Card required. Cancel before day 7 to avoid a charge.
Or start on the Free plan: no card, 15 monitors, checked every 5 min.