Open-Source Observability

Your infrastructure
deserves a war room.

Uptime monitoring and cost intelligence for teams that can't afford downtime. Built in Go. Deploy anywhere.

helena status
$ helena status
PROJECT HELENA v0.1.0           02.04.26 / 03:42 UTC
SERVICE
STATUS
LATENCY
UPTIME
api.prod
200 OK
12ms
99.99%
payments.stripe
200 OK
45ms
99.97%
auth-service
200 OK
8ms
100.0%
cdn-edge-eu
503 ERR
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98.21%
3/4 operational    avg: 21ms 1 incident active    since 03:38 UTC

Built by operators, for operators

200M+
npm downloads/year maintained
6 yrs
running production infra
Go
powered backend
AGPL
open source license

The Arsenal

Two tools. One mission.

Know when it's down. Know what it costs.

WARDEN

Uptime Monitoring

Your first line of defense. Know the second something goes down — not minutes later when customers start complaining.

  • HTTP, TCP, DNS, ICMP monitoring
  • 30-second check intervals
  • Multi-region validation
  • Slack, PagerDuty, webhook alerts
  • Public status pages
  • SSL certificate expiry tracking
OPERATIONAL
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RECON

Cost Intelligence

Your Kubernetes cluster is burning money and you don't know where. Recon maps every dollar to every namespace, pod, and workload — then tells you what to cut.

  • Namespace-level cost breakdown
  • Idle resource detection
  • Right-sizing recommendations
  • Budget alerts and forecasting
  • Multi-cluster support
  • Cloud-agnostic (EKS, GKE, AKS)
IN DEVELOPMENT
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Situation Report

Don't take our word for it.

Helena monitors itself. Here's the live status of our own infrastructure — tracked by Warden.

SYSTEM STATUS
ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL
projecthelena.com
99.99% uptime 12ms avg
api.projecthelena.com
100.0% uptime 8ms avg
docs.projecthelena.com
99.98% uptime 22ms avg
Last checked: 14 seconds ago
Operational
Degraded
Incident
Monitoring from: us-east, eu-west, ap-south

Warden monitors Helena. Helena monitors you.

Why Helena

Built different, on purpose.

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Go, not Node

Written in Go for raw performance and minimal resource usage. Your monitoring shouldn't need more RAM than your app.

$0

No per-seat pricing

Flat-rate tiers. Add your whole team without doing budget math. $19/mo for Pro. That's it.

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30-second checks

Most tools check every 5 minutes. That's 5 minutes of downtime nobody knows about. We check every 30 seconds.

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Open source, for real

AGPL licensed. Read the code, audit the logic, self-host it. No vendor lock-in, ever.

Deploy anywhere

Docker, Kubernetes, bare metal, Cloudflare Workers. Your infra, your rules. Or use our managed cloud.

Multi-region validation

One region says it's down? We check from 3 more before alerting. Reduce false positives to near zero.

Open Source

Transparency is not a feature.

It's a requirement.

Helena is AGPL-licensed. You can read every line of code, audit the monitoring logic, and self-host it on your own infrastructure. No black boxes. No "trust us" security. Just code you can verify.

terminal
$ git clone https://github.com/projecthelena/warden
$ cd warden && make build
$ ./warden serve --config config.yaml
Warden v0.1.0 starting...
HTTP server listening on :8080
12 monitors loaded from config
Check interval: 30s
Ready.

Pricing

Simple. No per-seat nonsense.

Every plan includes unlimited team members. Because charging per seat for monitoring is absurd.

Free

$ 0 /month

Self-host only

  • 5 monitors
  • 5-minute check intervals
  • 1 monitoring region
  • Community support
Get started — self-host
RECOMMENDED

Pro

$ 19 /month

Cloud hosted

  • 50 monitors
  • 30-second check intervals
  • 3 monitoring regions
  • Email + Slack support
  • SSL monitoring
  • Custom status pages
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Team

$ 99 /month

Cloud hosted

  • Unlimited monitors
  • 30-second check intervals
  • All monitoring regions
  • Priority support
  • SSO / SAML
  • SLA guarantee
  • Custom integrations
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All plans include: unlimited team members, full API access, Slack and webhook integrations, and public status pages. Need enterprise? We'll get there — but we're building for startups first.

Enlist

The mission starts soon.

Helena is in active development. Join the waitlist to get early access, shape the roadmap, and be the first to deploy when we launch.

No spam. Just launch updates and early access.

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