# Pingtower

> Log-driven alerting: your apps POST structured logs, Pingtower collapses repeats into single alerts, runs your rules, and pages whoever is on call until a human acks. Single Go binary, plus a native iOS app whose critical alerts sound through Silent mode — and you ack straight from the lock screen.

Pingtower is log-driven alerting, not an uptime prober: services POST
structured log events, the server collapses repeats by message shape,
evaluates declarative rules, and escalates until a human acknowledges. There
are no HTTP/TCP/ping checks and no heartbeat, so it cannot detect a service
that stopped logging.

## Docs

- [Agent guide](https://www.pingtower.com/agents/index.md): imperative zero-to-verified setup an agent can run end to end on a user's behalf
- [Addons](https://www.pingtower.com/addons/index.md): the probe agent — HTTP/TCP/DNS/TLS-expiry/ping checks from outside, reported as events tower rules threshold
- [API reference (markdown)](https://www.pingtower.com/api/index.md): every endpoint on the ingest and API-key planes, with auth and examples
- [OpenAPI spec](https://www.pingtower.com/api/openapi.json): the same reference as machine-readable JSON, generated from the server's own route table and gated against drift

## Optional

- [Get started (HTML)](https://www.pingtower.com/get-started/): human-facing install page with signed download table and checksums
- [Blog](https://www.pingtower.com/posts/): weekly release posts
- [Terms](https://www.pingtower.com/terms/) and [privacy](https://www.pingtower.com/privacy/)