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We build the monitoring we wanted when we were on call

Navy is a small, remote team of engineers and designers who have all held the pager. We make uptime monitoring, on-call and status pages for teams who want fewer, better alerts.

Founded
2021
People on the team
38
Countries we work from
11
Teams on Navy
4,000
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Story

Why Navy exists

Navy started in 2021, after one of our founders spent a weekend answering pages for an outage that turned out to be a single flaky network route. Every tool we tried either missed real outages or cried wolf, and on-call engineers had learned to ignore both.

So we built the monitor we wanted: checks from many regions, an outage only when three of them agree, and alerts that go to one person instead of a whole channel. The status page came next, because customers deserve to hear about problems from you first.

Today Navy runs more than two billion checks a month for 4,000 teams, from two-person startups to companies with rotations in every time zone. The goal hasn't changed: when your phone buzzes at 3 a.m., it should be worth waking up for.

Milestones

Five years of fewer pages

  1. 2021

    Navy launches with HTTP checks from six regions.

  2. 2022

    Status pages arrive, with email subscribers.

  3. 2023

    On-call schedules and escalation policies.

  4. 2024

    The Terraform provider and the Navy CLI.

  5. 2026

    18 regions and 4,000 teams on Navy.

Principles

How we work

01

Every alert is real

We would rather confirm an outage for ten more seconds than wake someone up for nothing.

02

Quiet by default

No dashboards to babysit. Navy stays out of the way until something actually breaks.

03

Honest status

Our own status page is public, including the incidents we would rather forget.