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Northflank monitoring: all your Northflank services in one dashboard

Northflank alerts on crashes, CPU, memory and volumes at fixed levels. Opyntel’s Northflank monitoring shows every service at a glance with latency, error-rate and tunable rules, plus the other systems you run.

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Built in vs Opyntel

Northflank on its own, and Northflank with Opyntel

Feature by feature, the biggest gaps first: what Northflank gives you, and what you get in one dashboard with Opyntel.

Every service at a glance

On Northflank

Northflank shows live and historical logs and metrics for builds, deployments, jobs and addons, with detailed views for individual containers.

With Opyntel

Opyntel shows the full list of your services in one table, grouped by project, with down and degraded first. Health, requests, error rate and latency sit in each row, so you see it all at a glance.

Alert thresholds you choose

On Northflank

Northflank infrastructure alerts fire on container crashes and evictions, CPU or memory at 90% or more, and volumes at 75% and 90%. They are configured account-wide and sent through notification integrations such as Slack, Discord, Teams or a webhook.

With Opyntel

Opyntel starts with default rules on every plan and lets you set any threshold per service, project or environment on Pro, by email, Slack or SMS depending on your plan. Every alert notifies when it fires and again when it recovers.

Latency and error rate

On Northflank

Northflank’s observability page covers resource usage, logs and health checks; it names no request latency or error-rate metrics.

With Opyntel

Opyntel shows requests, status classes, p50, p95 and p99 latency and the 5xx error rate for every public service, with alerts when p95 latency or the error rate passes your threshold.

The total cost of your app

On Northflank

Northflank billing alerts notify you when spend exceeds an amount you set.

With Opyntel

Opyntel shows spend per service and per project on Pro, next to the cost of the other platforms you run, so you see the total cost of your app at a glance. Monthly budget alerts and forecasts come with Enterprise.

Northflank plus the other systems you run

On Northflank

Northflank’s metrics and alerts cover the workloads and addons you run on Northflank. Logs can go to external aggregators through log sinks.

With Opyntel

Opyntel puts Northflank next to every other platform you connect in one dashboard, with the same rules for all of them and history kept for 30 days on the free plan, a year on Pro and unlimited on Enterprise.

Setup

How to set up Northflank monitoring with Opyntel

Northflank monitoring in four steps: from Northflank to one dashboard with everything else you run.

  1. Create a Northflank API token from a read-only role
    A Northflank token takes its permissions from an RBAC role. Create a role that only reads projects and services, then create a token from it under API tokens in your team.
    Create a Northflank API token
  2. Sign in to Opyntel
    Open your Opyntel dashboard and add a source. Accounts start from the waitlist, so join it to get yours.
  3. Paste the token in your dashboard
    Add Northflank as a source and paste the token. Opyntel finds the services and jobs in every project the role can read.
  4. See Northflank in one dashboard
    Northflank monitoring lands next to the other platforms you run: every service and server sits in one dashboard, down and degraded first, with default alert rules on from the start.

Don’t see your platform? From your Opyntel account you can request an integration with more platforms. Until then, and tell us which one you run on.

FAQ

Northflank questions, answered

Short answers; some link to a guide that goes into detail.

Its container exits or fails its liveness check, and Northflank starts it again. The container logs and exit code show why. Opyntel alerts when restarts pass your threshold. Why a container keeps restarting.

Northflank lists each job run with its status and logs. Opyntel alerts when a scheduled run fails or does not happen. Why a cron job is not running.

Check Northflank’s status page first. If every service and addon you run fails together it is the platform; if one fails alone it is that workload. Opyntel checks your public endpoints from several regions and alerts when one goes down.

Compute is billed by the resources each service, job and addon reserves and for how long it runs, with storage and network on top. Opyntel shows spend per service next to your other platforms with Opyntel Pro.

The alerts your platform doesn’t send.

One dashboard for everything you run, with the alerts your platforms leave out. Read-only, nothing to install in your apps.

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