02:14. Woken only for a real problem
A push alert when a deploy fails, an app turns unhealthy, a droplet goes off, a database fails over, an uptime check fails, spend passes your budget or DigitalOcean has an incident in your regions.
In development · iPhone
Know what broke, and whether it can wait.
Duskwatch for DigitalOcean is an iPhone app for on-call: push alerts, then what broke and why in about 30 seconds.
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- Your access stays on your iPhone
- Push alerts, not just email
- Spend alerts before the bill
- An iPhone lock screen shows 02:14.
- An alert arrives: web-01 is off, acme-prod, off since 02:14.
- Opening it shows web-01: off for 1 min, CPU at 97 % just before it went off, no metrics since, and the uptime check failing in 4 of 4 regions.
- Recent events and the actions Power on and Snapshot are listed.
- About 8 seconds later the incident resolves: web-01 is active again, after 4 min.
Lock screen at 02:14.
01How it works
What 2 a.m. looks like.
On-call in your pocket, not a control panel. Four steps, then back to sleep. Everything else can wait for the laptop.
- 02:14
- 02:15
02:15. Understand it in 30 seconds
What failed, since when, the likely cause, and whether your last good version is still serving traffic.
- 02:16
02:16. Take one safe action
Roll back or restart an app, reboot a droplet, or add your IP to the database. Face ID confirms every action, a swipe arms anything disruptive, and there are no delete actions.
- 02:17
02:17. Hand off, or go back to sleep
Share a log excerpt with your team, open the droplet in your SSH app, or pick it up in the control panel.
02What's in it
Made for the quick look.
Everything a night on call needs, from the alert to what broke and why, and what the month will cost.
Also in Duskwatch
Widgets, Control Center, Spotlight
Status on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, a Control Center button, and your resources in Spotlight.
Beyond droplets
Kubernetes clusters, load balancers, volumes, Spaces and certificates, each with its own findings.
Multiple teams
Every client team in one app, with problem counts per team.
03Sign-in and privacy
How sign-in works, and what we keep.
The permission that can change things stays on your iPhone. Our server can look, never touch.
On this iPhone
You sign in on DigitalOcean's own page.
The iPhone's secure sign-in sheet opens DigitalOcean's page. Sign-in asks only to view, and Duskwatch never sees your password.
Actions are a separate permission, kept on this iPhone.
You turn on "Enable actions" and approve it on DigitalOcean's page. That permission replaces the view-only one and stays in this iPhone's Keychain, this device only. It is never sent to our server, and widgets never read it. An optional Face ID app lock guards the app itself.
Our server holds nothing unless you turn on alerts.
Without alerts, the app talks only to DigitalOcean, apart from looking up your IP when you add it to a database. No analytics or tracking SDKs.
Alert server, when you turn on alerts
Alerts get a separate, read-only permission.
You approve it on DigitalOcean's page and can revoke it there. The alert server checks the granted scopes on every exchange and refresh, and rejects and revokes anything that can write.
What our server keeps
Without alerts: nothing.
With alerts on:
- The read-only permission, encrypted
- Your team's ID, a one-way fingerprint of your account, and your device's push address
- Alert rules, including a spend budget if set, and the last status of what you watch
- 30 days of alert history, as IDs, never names
Kept in the EU. Turning alerts off deletes it within 24 hours, and "Delete my alert data" in Settings removes the rest.
What we never keep
- Your DigitalOcean password
- The permission that can change things
- Database passwords or connection strings
- Your logs or metric history
- The names of your teams and resources
Notifications carry only IDs. Your iPhone adds the team and resource names.
04Plans
Free to watch. Pro to act.
Free
Basic monitoring of your DigitalOcean account. Read-only.
Duskwatch Pro
Adds alerts, most actions and advanced features.
Pricing announced at launch
05Questions
Short answers.
Duskwatch is an iOS app, in development for iPhone. A TestFlight beta comes before the App Store: after you sign up, you can ask for an invite.
iPhone first. If you want Android or iPad, say so in the short survey after you join.
Droplets, App Platform apps, managed databases, Kubernetes clusters, load balancers, volumes, Spaces buckets, certificates, uptime checks, billing and DigitalOcean status.
From your iPhone you can power on, shut down, reboot, power cycle or snapshot a droplet, redeploy, roll back or restart an app, and add your IP to a database's trusted sources. There are no delete actions.
DNS, Functions and the container registry are not covered. Tell us in the survey if you need them.
No. Sign-in asks only to view, and actions are a separate permission you approve. Either one stays in this iPhone's Keychain and is never sent to us. Alerts use their own read-only permission, and only if you turn them on.
Basic monitoring is free and read-only. Duskwatch Pro adds alerts, most actions and advanced features.
Pricing announced at launch.
Duskwatch is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean is a trademark of DigitalOcean, LLC.
It works with DigitalOcean's public API and its standard sign-in page.
We only ask for your email, and we send one email at launch. Anything else, such as a TestFlight invite or build notes, is optional and chosen in the next step.
Your address is stored by our email provider, EmailOctopus, in Ireland (EU). Every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
Calm at 2 a.m.
In development for iPhone. TestFlight beta soon.
Join the waitlist. After you sign up, you can ask for a TestFlight invite.
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