Where your data lives
Data residency is a one-line answer here: your monitoring data, the check results, uptime history, sites, settings and team members, lives on servers in Belgium, run by Combell, certified ISO 27001 and ISO 27701. Performance metrics sit in ClickHouse Cloud's EU region.
Your DPO doesn't ask whether you have a GDPR page; every vendor has one. They ask which company holds the data, and which courts can compel it.
The full picture is public: every subprocessor, what it does, and where it runs. See our subprocessors.
GDPR, concretely
The documents your procurement review will want:
- A signable Data Processing Agreement, ready to countersign.
- A public, current subprocessor list, no NDA required to see who touches your data.
- An EU data controller: Oh Dear is a Belgian company, subject to GDPR by default, not by adequacy decision.
- Data-subject rights handled from Europe: export, correction and deletion requests answered by the team that runs the service, in your timezone.
Where the checks run from
Uptime monitoring has to check your site from many places, that's the product. Our probe nodes run on AWS, DigitalOcean and Vultr around the world, because your customers are around the world, and a check that only runs from Brussels can't see what a visitor in Singapore sees.
What GDPR governs is where your data is stored and who controls it, and that's Belgium. The checks visit your public site the way any visitor does; the results come home to the EU.
We won't pretend otherwise: probe nodes, backups and check reports run on AWS and DigitalOcean, so we don't claim immunity from the US CLOUD Act. What we can tell you exactly is where your monitoring data lives and who holds it. If a vendor says their global monitoring runs entirely inside the EU, ask what their checks can see from there.
Used by European government bodies
Oh Dear monitors websites for official government bodies in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Public-sector procurement runs a strict data-residency review. They ask exactly what this page answers, and they get the same specifics every time: EU-stored data, a signable DPA, and a public subprocessor list.
A European alternative to your current monitor
Teams land on this page mid-migration: a procurement review flagged Pingdom, UptimeRobot or StatusCake, and now someone has to find a European alternative that doesn't feel like a downgrade.
Oh Dear checks your sites every minute from multiple worldwide locations and combines uptime, performance, SSL, cron job, DNS, domain, broken-link and mixed-content monitoring in one tool, with a status page on your own domain on every plan.
Compare it to the tool you're leaving: Oh Dear vs the competition.
An EU-native stack, not a retrofit
The tools running Oh Dear are largely European too: hosting at Combell (Belgium), performance metrics in ClickHouse Cloud's EU region, error tracking by Flare (Belgium), newsletters via Mailcoach (Belgium).
Being an EU-first product isn't a compliance project we bolted on. It's where we live. 🇧🇪
You can see the complete list, US subprocessors included, on our subprocessors page.
EU-hosted monitoring, from day one
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Frequently asked questions
Is Oh Dear GDPR compliant?
Yes. Oh Dear is a Belgian company, so GDPR applies to us by default rather than through an adequacy framework. You get a signable Data Processing Agreement, a public subprocessor list, and your monitoring data is stored in Belgium on Combell, a Belgian host certified ISO 27001 and ISO 27701.
Where is my monitoring data stored?
In Belgium (EU), on servers run by Combell. Performance metrics are stored in ClickHouse Cloud's EU region. The full storage picture, including where backups and check reports live, is on the subprocessors page.
Is Oh Dear hosted in the EU?
The company, the team and your stored monitoring data are in the EU. The monitoring checks themselves run from probe nodes around the world, on purpose: a monitor that only checks from Europe can't tell you what your visitors elsewhere experience. The results come back to Belgium.
Can EU public-sector and government bodies use Oh Dear?
Yes. Oh Dear offers a signable Data Processing Agreement and answers data-residency questions with specifics rather than a link to a framework, which is exactly what a procurement review asks for.
Does Oh Dear sign a DPA?
Yes. A standard, signable Data Processing Agreement is available to every customer, no enterprise plan required.
What's included in Oh Dear's EU-hosted monitoring?
Every plan includes the full toolset: uptime checks every minute from multiple worldwide locations, plus performance, SSL certificate, cron job, DNS, domain, broken-link and mixed-content monitoring, and a status page on your own domain. Plans start at €15/month for up to 5 sites & servers, with a 10-day free trial and no credit card required.
Wait, there's even more
API & endpoint monitoring
Call your endpoints every minute and validate what they actually return: status codes, response bodies, headers and response times. Webhooks and scheduled jobs included.
Continuous certificate monitoring
SSL certificates are essential in website security. We check all your certificate expiration dates & alert any change we detect.
Performance monitoring
We provide highly detailed performance monitoring and insights. We'll notify you as soon as we detect your website is getting slow.
Fast and insightful notifications
Get notified instantly as soon as we detect an issue or an important change. Enable any channel you use, you're in full control.
Scheduled task monitoring
Your cron jobs (Linux) and scheduled tasks (Windows) are the heart of your data processing. We can monitor every single one of them.
Broken page & mixed content
We crawl and index your entire website, just like Google. As soon as we detect a broken link on your site we will let you know.
DNS record monitoring
Receive a notification whenever your DNS records are modified - intentionally or maliciously - so you can act and verify faster.
Application health monitoring
A lot can go wrong inside your app and server. Disk space may fill up, or the database may go down. We'll notify you when something is off.
Beautiful public status pages
In times of crisis, a public status page allows you to communicate to your clients. We'll host your status page so it's always available.
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When your website goes down we'll let you know instantly. Now you can act before your or your client's brand reputation takes a hit.
Domain monitoring
We can check how long your domain is still registered. If your renewal date is close, we'll notify you. This will avoid you losing your domain.
Lighthouse SEO monitoring
We track the speed & performance of your website over time. If we detect your website is suddenly slower, we'll let you know.
Sitemap monitoring
Elevate your SEO strategy and optimize your site. We analyse your sitemap health and check every URL for broken links.
Describe what you want to monitor
AI-powered monitoring
Use AI to verify anything you want on your websites and services with Oh Dear's AI-powered monitoring feature.
Port scanner
Define which ports should be open, and we scan all 65,535 ports on your server. Get alerted when expected ports go down or unexpected ports appear.
DNS blocklist monitoring
DNS blocklist monitoring helps you stay off spam and ad-block lists. Get notified when your DNS is blocked by a blacklist.
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Connect Oh Dear to your identity provider. Your team signs in with the credentials they already use.
Start monitoring instantly
Start a no-strings-attached 10-day free trial. You're all set in less than a minute. (No credit card needed.)
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