Riyon Sebastian

Riyon Sebastian

Pinghawk — Know why APIs fail
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Full stack developer building Pinghawk, an API monitoring tool focused on understanding why things fail, not just detecting downtime. I enjoy working on backend reliability, debugging, and building tools that solve real-world problems developers face every day. Currently exploring ideas around observability, distributed systems, and developer experience. Building in public and figuring things out along the way.

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Pinghawk — Know Why APIs Breakp/pinghawk-know-why-apis-breakRiyon Sebastian•

10d ago

“API is down” — but by the time you check, it’s already fine

This has happened to me more times than I can count.

You get an alert that an API is down.
You open logs, dashboards, traces

and everything looks normal again.

No clear signal of what actually failed.

Riyon Sebastian•

3d ago

Pinghawk — Know Why APIs Break - See exactly what happened at the moment your API failed

When your API fails, Pinghawk shows exactly what happened — at the moment it failed. Instead of a generic “API is down” alert, it records DNS, TLS, TTFB, and the response body — so you know why it failed, not just that it failed. It captures multiple snapshots across failures and catches silent issues like cron jobs and SSL expiry. Free during beta — would love your feedback if this solves a real pain for you.
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