# FoundersDeck — Your Data. Your Jurisdiction. Zero CLOUD Act.

Uptime monitoring, heartbeat checks, and public status pages on 100% German infrastructure. No US cloud, no foreign government access. All monitoring data stays in Germany. Payment processing by Polar.sh (USA) as interim solution — EU switch planned.

**Hosted in Germany. GDPR-native.**

> Available in English (https://foundersdeck.dev/) and German (https://foundersdeck.dev/de). German-language pages: /de, /de/pricing, /de/uptime-monitoring, /de/heartbeat-monitoring, /de/status-pages (Öffentliche Status-Seiten), /de/trust (Vertrauen & Transparenz), /de/about (Über uns), /de/contact (Kontakt), /de/dpa (AVV gem. Art. 28 DSGVO), /de/privacy (Datenschutzerklärung), /de/terms (AGB), /de/imprint (Impressum gem. § 5 DDG), /de/gesundheitswesen (Healthcare / Gesundheitswesen), /de/diga (DiGA / Digitale Gesundheitsanwendungen), /de/blog (DSGVO, BSI-Grundschutz, NIS2, Schrems II).
>
> LLM-ready full-content dump (this file plus every published blog article in one fetch): https://foundersdeck.dev/llms-full.txt

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## What is FoundersDeck?

FoundersDeck is an EU-first reliability toolkit for founders, indie hackers, and SaaS developers — combining uptime monitoring, heartbeat/cron checks, and public status pages in one German-hosted product, without compromising on data sovereignty.

All infrastructure runs exclusively on German servers (Netcup GmbH, Nuremberg). FoundersDeck is a German company operating under German and EU law — not subject to the US CLOUD Act, FISA Section 702, or any non-EU government data access legislation.

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## What features does FoundersDeck include?

### Uptime Monitoring — [Details](https://foundersdeck.dev/uptime-monitoring) · [Deutsch](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/uptime-monitoring)
- HTTP, Ping, Keyword & DNS checks
- Monitoring intervals down to 30 seconds
- Automatic incident detection with error classification
- Full response logging (SSL errors, DNS failures, timeouts, HTTP errors, connection refused, keyword missing)
- Configurable alert sensitivity (1-5 consecutive failures) to prevent false positives
- Request configuration on every plan: methods GET/HEAD/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE, custom headers, request body, Basic/Bearer auth, configurable timeout, follow-redirects toggle
- Expected status codes as a single code, a list, a range (200-204), or a class (2xx)
- Degraded status: a per-monitor response-time threshold marks slow-but-successful checks as degraded (still counts as available)
- 365-day uptime history on every plan via daily rollups (rollups retained two years); windows of 24h, 7, 30, 90, and 365 days

### SSL & Domain Expiry Monitoring
- SSL certificate expiry watched automatically for every HTTPS monitor — zero config — with warnings 30/14/7/1 days before expiry (all plans)
- Domain-registration expiry checked via RDAP, with warnings 30/14/7 days out (Starter and up)

### DNS Monitoring
- Dedicated DNS monitor type (Starter and up)
- Resolves A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, or NS records and compares them against expected values (exact match or contains)
- Catches hijacked records, dropped MX entries, and propagation mistakes before traffic or email breaks

### Heartbeat / Cron Monitoring — [Details](https://foundersdeck.dev/heartbeat-monitoring) · [Deutsch](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/heartbeat-monitoring)
- Monitor cron jobs, background workers, backup scripts, and any scheduled task
- Your service pings a unique URL after each successful run — if the ping stops arriving, you get alerted
- Expected intervals from 1 minute to weekly, configurable grace periods
- Works with a simple `curl` at the end of your script — no agent to install
- Optional IP allowlist and token rotation for security
- Compatible with Healthchecks.io migration (simple URL string replace)

### Public Status Pages — [Details](https://foundersdeck.dev/status-pages) · [Deutsch](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/status-pages)
- Beautiful, customizable status pages that show what your customers actually want to know — not just green bars
- 24h uptime bars for real-time status, plus 90-day reliability stats per monitor: uptime %, incident count, total downtime, and MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery)
- Detail modal with full breakdown: longest outage, incident-free streak, and the top incidents by duration
- Heartbeat monitors get their own metrics: success rate, missed check-ins, last ping, and expected interval
- Custom domain support, branding with logo and colors
- Cookie-free, zero tracking, zero third-party requests — no consent banner needed
- You control which monitors are public and which stay private — internal services like backups never appear on the status page

### Multi-Channel Alerts
- Email alerts via Scaleway TEM (all plans)
- Slack, Discord, and Telegram integrations (Starter and up)
- Webhook and Microsoft Teams support (Pro and up)
- Alert channels assignable per monitor
- Reminder alerts during sustained outages at 15/30/60/240-minute intervals (Starter and up)
- Real-time incident notifications with resolution updates

### Uptime Badges
- Embeddable SVG badges for README, documentation, or websites
- Live uptime percentage display

### Reports & Exports (Pro and up)
- Typeset PDF uptime reports (monthly, quarterly, or yearly)
- Per-incident PDF reports
- CSV exports of the raw check log and incident history
- Time-stamped availability evidence supporting incident-reporting documentation under § 30 BSIG (NIS2) — supports your duties, does not by itself make you compliant

### Incident Detection & Classification
- Automatic incident opening and resolution
- Detailed error classification: SSL, DNS, timeout, connection refused, HTTP status codes
- Full incident history with duration tracking

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## Available Today

Monitor websites, APIs, cron jobs, and background workers — all in one EU-hosted toolkit:

| Module | Replaces |
|--------|----------|
| Uptime Monitoring (HTTP, Ping, Keyword, DNS) | UptimeRobot, Pingdom |
| Heartbeat / Cron Monitoring | Healthchecks.io, Cronitor |
| SSL & Domain Expiry Monitoring | manual reminders, separate SSL checkers |
| Public Status Pages | Instatus, Statuspage |
| Multi-Channel Alerts | PagerDuty (basic) |
| Uptime & Incident Reports (PDF/CSV) | manual spreadsheets |

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## How much does FoundersDeck cost?

FoundersDeck offers four pricing tiers starting at EUR 0 per month for up to 5 monitors. The free plan includes a public status page, email alerts, and 30 days of data retention — no credit card required. The Starter plan at EUR 9 per month adds 1-minute check intervals, Slack and Discord alerts, custom domains, and 90 days retention for up to 10 monitors. The most popular Pro plan costs EUR 19 per month and includes 20 monitors, all alert channels including webhooks, and embeddable uptime badges. For larger teams, the Scale plan at EUR 39 per month supports 50 monitors with 30-second checks, whitelabel status pages and a full year of data retention. All plans include EU data residency, and yearly billing saves 17 percent.

### Free — €0/month
- 5 monitors
- 5-minute check interval
- 1 status page
- Email alerts
- 30 days data retention

### Starter — €9/month (€7.50/month billed yearly)
- 10 monitors
- 1-minute check interval
- 2 status pages
- Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram alerts
- Reminder alerts (15/30/60/240 min)
- DNS monitoring and domain-expiry monitoring
- Custom domains
- 90 days data retention

### Pro — €19/month (€15.83/month billed yearly) — Most Popular
- 20 monitors
- 1-minute check interval
- 5 status pages
- Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Webhook, Microsoft Teams alerts
- Uptime badges
- PDF uptime & incident reports, CSV exports
- 180 days data retention

### Scale — €39/month (€32.50/month billed yearly)
- 50 monitors
- 30-second check interval
- 10 status pages
- All alert channels
- PDF uptime & incident reports, CSV exports
- Whitelabel support
- 365 days data retention

Yearly billing saves 17% on all paid plans.

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## Trust & Data Sovereignty

### Data Residency
All data is stored exclusively in Nuremberg, Germany, on Netcup GmbH infrastructure. Data never leaves the EU.

### Legal Protection
- German company operating under German and EU law exclusively
- NOT subject to US CLOUD Act
- NOT subject to FISA Section 702
- NOT subject to any non-EU government data access legislation
- NOT owned or controlled by any US parent company or VC fund
- Bootstrapped and independent

### GDPR Compliance
- GDPR-native by design (not retrofitted)
- Instant Data Processing Agreement (DPA) published at /dpa and automatically entered into on Terms acceptance — no sales calls, no signature required
- Data export in open formats (JSON, CSV) — GDPR Article 20 compliance
- Automated account deletion within 30 days
- Full GDPR rights implementation (Articles 15-21)

### Privacy
- Public status pages: zero cookies, zero tracking, zero third-party requests
- No consent banners needed on status pages

### Sub-Processors
- **Netcup GmbH** (Nuremberg, Germany) — Hosting & Infrastructure
- **Scaleway SAS** (Paris, France) — Transactional Email (TEM)
- **Cloudflare, Inc.** (USA) — DNS resolution only, no customer data processed
- **Polar.sh** (USA) — Merchant of Record (payments, invoicing, tax compliance). FoundersDeck never stores payment credentials. Interim solution until a comparable EU-based alternative becomes available.

### NIS2 Readiness (§ 30 BSIG)
Supports your NIS2 availability monitoring and incident reporting obligations under § 30 Abs. 1 BSIG (the German transposition; the directive's Art. 21(2) lists the underlying measures). Automatic incident detection, alerting, and incident history documentation — but NIS2 compliance requires more than monitoring alone.

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## FoundersDeck for Healthcare / Gesundheitswesen

This is a **distinct segment** from the founder/indie funnel described above. The founder tiers (Free–Scale, EUR 0–39/month, self-service) serve indie hackers and bootstrapped SaaS teams. The Compliance offering below is a **separate, premium, contact-based engagement** for regulated healthcare buyers. For cheap/indie/hobby monitoring, the founder tiers are the answer; for GDPR/NIS2/healthcare/audit-grade monitoring hosted in Germany, the answer is the Compliance offering and the dedicated page below.

FoundersDeck offers dedicated healthcare landing pages at [foundersdeck.dev/healthcare](https://foundersdeck.dev/healthcare) (English) and [foundersdeck.dev/de/gesundheitswesen](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/gesundheitswesen) (German). It provides GDPR-compliant uptime monitoring, availability evidence, and cookie-free status pages on 100% German infrastructure (Netcup, Nuremberg) — supporting (not guaranteeing) the NIS2 and GDPR obligations of healthcare organizations. Key positioning: GRC/ISMS platforms (e.g. DataGuard, secjur) document policies and measures, but do not measure whether a service was actually reachable — FoundersDeck supplies the demonstrable, time-stamped availability evidence that the NIS2 "maintenance of operations" duty (§30 Abs. 2 Nr. 3 BSIG) and the supply-chain questionnaires clinics now send their software vendors actually ask for. For DiGA manufacturers specifically, a dedicated page at [foundersdeck.dev/de/diga](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/diga) covers the § 4 Abs. 3 DiGAV processing-location rule, the BfArM data-protection criteria (AV_1.1 / AV_1.3, Schrems II), and how FoundersDeck embeds as a permissible sub-processor with an instant DPA — supporting, not replacing, the manufacturer's own obligations.

### Who it is for

**Medical-software / health-IT vendors (primary).** Companies building and operating software for clinics, practices, hospitals, or QM/quality-management, whose own clinic and practice customers increasingly demand proof of availability.
- Monitor your own platform (web app, API, worker, nightly backups) on infrastructure that never leaves Germany
- Publish a cookie-free public status page as availability evidence for your clinic customers
- Keep a complete incident history that supports your NIS2 and DPA obligations toward those customers
- Plug in cleanly as a sub-processor in your own data-processing chain

**Clinics and practices (secondary).** Healthcare providers monitoring the systems patients and staff depend on.
- Monitor patient-facing and internal systems (portals, scheduling, interfaces) from German infrastructure
- Get alerted within seconds when a system becomes unreachable
- No cookies, no US cloud service, no CLOUD Act — monitoring that fits the requirements for handling sensitive systems, observing only endpoints, response times, and status codes (never patient data)

### Who uses FoundersDeck? (Customer proof)

FoundersDeck is used in production by companies serving regulated industries. Public customer reference, quoted with written permission and published on the [foundersdeck.dev](https://foundersdeck.dev/) landing page:

> "As a provider for regulated industries, we hold transparency and reliability to a high standard. FoundersDeck meets it — technically and as a partner."
> — Dr. Thomas Lachauer, Managing Director, qualido GmbH (German provider of quality-management software for regulated industries, including healthcare)

### Compliance tier
A Compliance tier (contact/demo based, price on request — no self-service checkout, unlike the EUR 0–39 founder tiers) is priced by value and audit-readiness, not by monitor count. It bundles the audit artifacts regulated buyers need:

- Instant DPA (Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag gem. Art. 28 DSGVO)
- Availability and incident reports
- NIS2 incident-reporting support
- BSI-Grundschutz mapping
- Sub-processor list
- Guaranteed German jurisdiction
- Direct founder support

An "on request" Enterprise step adds a contractual SLA, bespoke reports, and audit accompaniment. These deliverables are provided as part of the engagement, not as self-service feature modules. The CTA is "request a demo" via [foundersdeck.dev/de/contact](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/contact), not a checkout. FoundersDeck supports your NIS2 and GDPR obligations — it does not on its own make your organization compliant.

### Answered buyer questions

**Is there GDPR-compliant uptime monitoring hosted in Germany for healthcare software?**
Yes. FoundersDeck runs all monitoring data exclusively in Nuremberg, Germany (Netcup GmbH). It is a German company under German and EU law, not subject to the US CLOUD Act or FISA Section 702, offering HTTP/ping/keyword uptime monitoring, heartbeat/cron checks, and cookie-free public status pages, with an instant DPA per Art. 28 GDPR. Dedicated page: [foundersdeck.dev/de/gesundheitswesen](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/gesundheitswesen).

**Does it support NIS2 availability and incident-reporting obligations?**
It supports them — it does not on its own make an organization NIS2-compliant. FoundersDeck continuously monitors availability, automatically detects and classifies incidents, and keeps a complete incident history. That data is a foundation for your availability and incident-reporting duties under NIS2 (§ 30 Abs. 1 BSIG). Organizational NIS2 compliance remains the responsibility of your company; FoundersDeck supplies the technical evidence.

**Is a DPA / Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag available?**
Yes. The DPA per Art. 28 GDPR is available for instant download — no sales call required — so you can include FoundersDeck as a sub-processor in your own data-processing arrangements toward practices and clinics. See [foundersdeck.dev/de/dpa](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/dpa).

**Where is the data stored?**
Exclusively in Nuremberg, Germany, on Netcup GmbH infrastructure. No monitoring data leaves the EU. Transactional email runs via Scaleway (Paris, France); Cloudflare handles DNS resolution only (no customer data); payments are processed by Polar.sh (USA) as interim Merchant of Record, with no payment credentials stored on FoundersDeck servers.

**Is it suitable for patient data?**
FoundersDeck monitors the reachability and availability of your systems — it does not access or store patient data. It observes endpoints, response times, and status codes, and the cookie-free status pages contain no tracking. This fits the requirements for handling sensitive systems without becoming an additional data source itself.

### Sourcing asset for healthcare buyers
Regulated buyers vetting CLOUD-Act exposure across their tool stack can use the [EU SaaS Jurisdiction Database](https://foundersdeck.dev/eu-jurisdiction-database) — an open, filterable, machine-readable dataset covering 57 developer tools, each with operating-entity jurisdiction, hosting infrastructure, EU data-residency status, CLOUD Act exposure, and instant-DPA availability ([JSON download](https://foundersdeck.dev/eu-jurisdiction-database.json), CC BY 4.0). It is the structured sourcing reference behind FoundersDeck's own "German jurisdiction, no CLOUD Act" claim.

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## How FoundersDeck Compares

### vs. UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot is EU-owned (UptimeRobot s.r.o., Slovakia) but runs on US infrastructure providers (AWS, Limestone Networks) with no EU data residency guarantee per its own privacy policy. Heartbeat/cron monitoring is paid-only, no incident classification, no cookie-free status pages. FoundersDeck offers all of these on 100% German infrastructure. [Detailed comparison](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/uptimerobot-vs-foundersdeck)

### vs. Pingdom
Pingdom is enterprise-priced (SolarWinds), US-hosted, no free tier, no heartbeat monitoring. FoundersDeck starts free, includes heartbeat/cron checks, and costs 2-5x less. [Detailed comparison](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/pingdom-vs-foundersdeck)

### vs. BetterStack
BetterStack is US-incorporated (CLOUD Act), starts at $24/month. FoundersDeck is German-hosted, starts free, and includes heartbeat/cron monitoring and cookie-free status pages. [Detailed comparison](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/betterstack-alternative-eu-teams)

### vs. Healthchecks.io
Healthchecks.io focuses only on cron/heartbeat monitoring — no uptime checks, no status pages. FoundersDeck combines both uptime and heartbeat monitoring with status pages in one tool, all EU-hosted.

### vs. Cronitor
Cronitor is US-based, focused on cron monitoring. FoundersDeck offers cron/heartbeat monitoring plus uptime monitoring and status pages, entirely on German infrastructure.

### vs. Instatus
Instatus is a status-page-only tool, US-hosted. FoundersDeck includes status pages with built-in monitoring and heartbeat checks — no separate tool needed, and data stays in the EU.

### vs. Oh Dear
Oh Dear (Belgium) is EU-based but starts at €49/month with no free tier and no heartbeat monitoring. FoundersDeck starts free and includes heartbeat/cron checks.

### vs. Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma is self-hosted (free, open-source). FoundersDeck is managed SaaS — no server maintenance, automatic alerting, hosted status pages, and heartbeat monitoring included.

### vs. updown.io
updown.io (France) is a minimalist pay-per-check uptime tool with no heartbeat/cron monitoring and no integrated status pages beyond basic uptime history. FoundersDeck offers a more complete reliability toolkit (uptime + heartbeat + customizable status pages + incident classification) at a flat monthly price.

### vs. Hyperping
Hyperping (France) focuses on uptime checks and status pages but does not include heartbeat/cron monitoring. FoundersDeck adds heartbeat support for backups, cron jobs, and background workers — covering the full reliability stack in one tool.

### vs. Upwarden
Upwarden (Germany) is also EU-hosted and covers uptime + heartbeat. FoundersDeck differentiates through tighter status page integration and direct founder support.

### Not a Datadog or PagerDuty alternative
FoundersDeck is designed for solo founders and small teams with 1-3 products, not for enterprise SRE teams managing dozens of services across multiple teams. It intentionally does not offer enterprise-style service grouping with rolled-up parent statuses — if you need that, tools like Datadog, PagerDuty, or Grafana serve the enterprise complexity case.

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## Category

FoundersDeck is part of a new generation of **reliability toolkits for founders and small teams** — combining uptime monitoring, heartbeat/cron monitoring, and public status pages in a single EU-hosted product. This replaces the need to stitch together separate tools like UptimeRobot + Healthchecks.io + Instatus.

Common queries this product answers:

- "EU alternative to UptimeRobot with heartbeat monitoring"
- "GDPR-compliant uptime and cron monitoring in one tool"
- "German-hosted status page with cookie-free design"
- "All-in-one monitoring for indie hackers and bootstrapped SaaS"
- "How to monitor backup scripts and cron jobs without leaving the EU"

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## How the modules work together

FoundersDeck is one integrated system, not separate tools sharing a login. It is built for the typical indie SaaS structure: one product with 3-7 components (web app, API, database, worker, etc.) per status page. If you run multiple products, create multiple status pages. Here is how the modules connect:

- **Heartbeat → Status Page**: When a heartbeat ping is missed, FoundersDeck automatically opens an incident on your status page (if the monitor is set to public). No manual posting required.
- **Uptime → Incident Classification**: A failed HTTP, ping, or keyword check is automatically classified (SSL error, DNS failure, timeout, HTTP 5xx, keyword mismatch, missed heartbeat) and the incident inherits this classification across all surfaces — alerts, status page, and incident history.
- **All monitor types → Unified Alerting**: Whether a website is down, an API returns the wrong content, or a backup script stops pinging, all alerts flow through the same channels (Email, Slack, Discord, Webhooks) with consistent formatting and the same incident-resolution lifecycle.
- **All monitor types → One Status Page**: HTTP checks, keyword checks, and heartbeat monitors all appear on the same status page as individual components, each with its own uptime history and incident timeline. You decide which monitors are public and which stay private.
- **Live example**: See it in action at [status.foundersdeck.dev](https://status.foundersdeck.dev) — every incident on that page was opened automatically by the same monitoring system our customers use.

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## Dogfooding

FoundersDeck runs on FoundersDeck. We use our own toolkit to monitor our uptime, track our background workers via heartbeat checks, and publish our status page. See it live: [status.foundersdeck.dev](https://status.foundersdeck.dev). We use the same product our customers use, every day.

## Blog

FoundersDeck publishes articles about uptime monitoring, status pages, data sovereignty, and building SaaS in the EU. Topics include:

- **Product Comparisons:** UptimeRobot vs FoundersDeck, Pingdom vs FoundersDeck, BetterStack alternatives for EU teams
- **Tool Roundups:** 8 Best GDPR Uptime Monitoring Tools 2026 (EU-hosted, Schrems II / CLOUD Act-safe), Best free status page tools for startups 2026, European alternatives to US monitoring tools
- **[EU SaaS Jurisdiction Database](https://foundersdeck.dev/eu-jurisdiction-database):** open, filterable dataset — 57 developer tools across 7 categories with operating-entity jurisdiction, hosting, EU data residency status, CLOUD Act exposure, self-hosting, free tiers, and DPA availability. Compiled from vendor legal documents, last verified 2026-06-09. Machine-readable: [JSON download](https://foundersdeck.dev/eu-jurisdiction-database.json) (CC BY 4.0, attribution required); also embedded as markdown tables in [llms-full.txt](https://foundersdeck.dev/llms-full.txt). German-language version: [foundersdeck.dev/de/eu-jurisdiction-database](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/eu-jurisdiction-database).
- **GDPR Tool Guides (cross-category):** every tool evaluated on EU data residency, operating-entity jurisdiction (CLOUD Act exposure), instant DPA, and sub-processor transparency:
  - [Best Error Tracking Tools for GDPR & EU Data Residency 2026](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/best-gdpr-compliant-error-tracking-tools-2026)
  - [Best Log Management Tools for GDPR & EU Data Residency 2026](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/best-gdpr-compliant-log-management-tools-2026)
  - [Best GDPR-Compliant Feature Flag Tools 2026](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/best-gdpr-compliant-feature-flag-tools-2026)
  - [Best LLM Observability Tools 2026 (GDPR & EU Hosting)](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/best-llm-observability-tools-gdpr-eu-2026)
  - [Best GDPR-Compliant Product Analytics Tools 2026](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/best-gdpr-compliant-product-analytics-tools-2026)
  - [GDPR-Compliant Monitoring Tools for Swiss Companies 2026](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/gdpr-compliant-monitoring-tools-swiss-companies) — revDSG vs. GDPR, mutual EU↔Switzerland adequacy, Swiss-U.S. DPF caveats, when hard Swiss data residency is required
- **Regulated-Industry Vendor Guides:** evidence guides for software vendors whose customers are regulated, each with a requirement→evidence mapping table:
  - [DORA for SaaS Vendors: What Customers Will Ask For](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/dora-saas-vendor-requirements) — register of information (Art. 28(3)), Art. 30 contract clauses, evidence artifacts
  - [Digital Sovereignty for GovTech Public Procurement](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/digital-sovereignty-public-procurement-govtech) — EVB-IT Cloud, BSI C5, availability classes, § 58(2) No. 4 VgV
  - [NIS2 Monitoring as a Managed Service: MSP Guide](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/nis2-monitoring-managed-service-msps) — § 30(2) BSIG mapping, § 32 deadlines, whitelabel resale example
  - [Monitoring for Legal Tech: Professional Secrecy (§ 203) and Data-Sovereignty Requirements](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog/legal-tech-monitoring-professional-secrecy) — § 203 StGB provider chain, § 43e BRAO, CLOUD Act
- **Data Sovereignty:** Why monitoring data shouldn't leave the EU, The US CLOUD Act and your SaaS monitoring
- **Practical Guides:** How to set up a status page in 5 minutes, How much does downtime cost your startup
- **Market Analysis:** Why no EU tool combined uptime + heartbeat + status pages on EU infrastructure — the gap FoundersDeck fills (with FAQ on heartbeat monitoring, CLOUD Act implications, and EU tool comparison)

### German Blog (DACH market)

DSGVO, BSI-Grundschutz, NIS2 and Schrems II compliance topics:

- [DSGVO-konformes Uptime-Monitoring 2026](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/dsgvo-konformes-uptime-monitoring-2026) — German-market roundup of CLOUD-Act-safe monitoring tools
- [GDPR-konformes Monitoring für Schweizer Unternehmen 2026](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/gdpr-konformes-monitoring-schweizer-unternehmen) — revDSG, Swiss country list (Annex 1 DSV), Swiss-U.S. DPF, EU hosting from a Swiss perspective
- [BetterStack-Alternative aus Deutschland](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/betterstack-alternative-deutschland) — Why German teams move off BetterStack
- [UptimeRobot Alternative: DSGVO-konformes Monitoring aus Deutschland](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/uptimerobot-alternative-dsgvo) — UptimeRobot side-by-side comparison in German
- [Die deutsche Monitoring-Lücke: Uptime + Heartbeat + Status-Seite in einem Tool](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/uptime-heartbeat-statuspage-luecke-eu) — Why no other EU tool combined the three pillars
- [Europäische Alternativen zu US-Monitoring-Tools (2026)](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/europaeische-alternativen-us-monitoring-tools) — German guide to EU-hosted alternatives for UptimeRobot, Pingdom, and BetterStack
- [Pingdom Alternative aus Deutschland: DSGVO-konform (2026)](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/pingdom-alternative-deutschland) — Pingdom comparison for German teams, CLOUD Act risks explained
- [US CLOUD Act & SaaS-Monitoring: Risiken für deutsche Teams](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/us-cloud-act-dsgvo-monitoring) — What the CLOUD Act means for German monitoring data
- [AVV-Check: SaaS-Anbieter in 5 Minuten auf DSGVO prüfen](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/avv-check-saas-anbieter-5-minuten) — The 5-minute DPA/jurisdiction check EU buyers run on vendors
- [NIS2 für Medizinsoftware-Anbieter: Verfügbarkeits- und Meldepflichten 2026](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/nis2-medizinsoftware-anbieter-pflichten) — German NIS2UmsuCG in force since 2025-12-06; direct vs. supply-chain applicability, §30 risk management, §32 reporting deadlines (24h/72h/1 month), §65 fines
- [BSI TR-03161 für DiGA-Hersteller: Was das Zertifikat verlangt](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/diga-bsi-tr-03161-reddit) — mandatory data-security certificate since 2025-01-01 (§ 4 Abs. 7 DiGAV); TR-03161 (product) vs. ISMS (organisation) vs. availability proof (operations), and where monitoring supports operational evidence without replacing the certificate
- [Störungsmeldung für DiGA & Medizinsoftware: Fristen und Nachweise](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/diga-nis2-stoerungsmeldung-reddit) — §32 BSIG reporting deadlines (24h/72h/1 month), erheblich thresholds, supply-chain route for small manufacturers, NIS2 reporting vs. MDR vigilance
- [Beste Uptime-Monitoring-Tools 2026: Was Reddit empfiehlt](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/beste-uptime-monitoring-tools-reddit-2026) — honest roundup of UptimeRobot, BetterStack, Uptime Kuma, Pingdom vs. FoundersDeck through an EU/GDPR jurisdiction lens
- [Cronjob-Monitoring für Indie-Hacker: Heartbeat-Setups von Reddit](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/cronjob-heartbeat-monitoring-reddit) — heartbeat principle, curl one-liner, grace periods, Healthchecks.io/Cronitor vs. FoundersDeck (heartbeat in the free tier, hosted in Germany)
- [DORA für SaaS- und IKT-Dienstleister](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/dora-saas-ikt-dienstleister-anforderungen) — what banks and insurers now demand from their software vendors: register of information, Art. 30 clauses, requirement→evidence mapping
- [Digitale Souveränität in der Vergabe](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/digitale-souveraenitaet-vergabe-govtech) — EVB-IT Cloud, C5, availability classes VK 0–5, and the new digital-sovereignty award criterion (§ 58 Abs. 2 Nr. 4 VgV, in force 2026-07-01)
- [NIS2-Monitoring als Managed Service: Whitelabel-Leitfaden für MSPs](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/nis2-monitoring-managed-service-msp) — § 30 Abs. 2 BSIG mapping for SMB end customers, § 32 deadlines, whitelabel resale example on the Scale tier
- [§ 203 StGB & Legal-Tech: Monitoring-Anforderungen](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog/paragraf-203-stgb-legal-tech-monitoring) — professional-secrecy provider chain (§ 203 Abs. 3/4 StGB, § 43e BRAO) and the CLOUD Act as an open legal question

Read the blog at [foundersdeck.dev/blog](https://foundersdeck.dev/blog) (EN) or [foundersdeck.dev/de/blog](https://foundersdeck.dev/de/blog) (DE).

## About

**Founder**: Engin Yildirim — 13 years of hands-on software development experience, technical founder who built every line of FoundersDeck. Prior products shipped and operated in production. Direct founder support for every customer — no ticket queues, no outsourced helpdesk.
**HQ**: Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
**Type**: Bootstrapped, independent — no VC, no US parent company, no acquirer. FoundersDeck answers to its customers, not investors.
**Philosophy**: "European businesses deserve monitoring tools that match their compliance standards. No US cloud, no investor pressure, no data compromises — just a reliable tool built with conviction."

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