Monitory is a webhook-based monitoring platform for creative installations, exhibitions, and any connected device. If your device can make an HTTP request, Monitory can log what it reports and alert you when it reports a problem.

How does Monitory work?

Your device sends a simple HTTP request (curl, fetch, or our SDK) to a webhook URL whenever something happens: a heartbeat, a crash, a sensor reading. Each webhook has its own alert settings, so Monitory notifies the right people the moment that event arrives.

Do I need to install an agent or open SSH ports?

No. Any device that can curl a URL can be monitored. An optional remote agent, available on request, adds screenshots, process lists and SSH tunnels through a relay, so you never open ports.

Which notification channels are supported?

Email, SMS, WhatsApp (through your own Twilio account) and Telegram (through your own bot). Each webhook has its own channels and recipients.

Monitory is built for artists, creative technologists, museums, galleries, production studios, and anyone who installs screens, sensors, robots, lights or software in the physical world.

How much does Monitory cost?

Monitory is currently invitation-only and free during beta. Request an invite from the homepage.

Hear it from your installation first.

Screens, projectors, sensors and robots report in to Monitory from wherever your work is shown. You see all of it on one wall, and hear about problems the minute they happen.

One device, one night.

Lyon-02 checks in every minute. At 03:12 its app crashed; Monitory for Mac relaunched it and both events reached the artist's phone before anyone in the room noticed.

Lyon-02: crash 03:12

MyExhibition.app crashed on gallery3-mini. Sent to you by SMS and Telegram.

Lyon-02: restart 03:12

Monitory for Mac relaunched it two seconds later. The screen stayed black in between.

Lyon-02 Hall B projection, last 24 hours

Last activity 14s ago

If it can curl, it can report in.

Give each kind of event its own webhook: a heartbeat, a crash, a sensor reading. Your device calls the URL when that thing happens, and you decide who hears about it and how. That's the whole integration. Go take a nap.

Texts and WhatsApp go through your own Twilio account, Telegram through your own bot, so messages come from numbers you control.

on the exhibition Pi

# every minute: a heartbeat, so you can see it's alive
* * * * * curl -fsS https://monitory.club/api/v1/webhooks/HEARTBEAT_TOKEN

# when something's wrong: its own webhook, its own alert
curl -X POST https://monitory.club/api/v1/webhooks/OVERHEAT_TOKEN \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"temp":78.2,"projector":"left"}'

Every piece in the show, on one wall.

Built for anyone who installs screens, lights, sensors or code out in the world, and would rather not drive back to check on them.

No agent needed

Just hit a URL. Your intern could set this up.

Last activity at a glance

Green if a device was heard from in the last five minutes, amber within the hour, grey after that.

Full history

Every event kept with its payload, filterable and exportable. Receipts for everything.

Team roles

Owners, admins and viewers, so you can blame the right person.

Lyon-02

Hall B projection

Active

crash at 03:1214s ago

Berlin-01

Lobby kiosk

Active

heartbeat32s ago

Hive sensors

Rooftop garden

Active

humidity 87%41s ago

LED wall

Atrium, 12 panels

Quiet

heartbeat38 min ago

Pi-garden

Sound piece, courtyard

Idle

heartbeat3 h ago

Mac mini

Gallery 3, video loop

Active

start21s ago

From people who hang the work.

Finally, a monitoring system that doesn't require me to explain to my fireflies how to install SSH keys. My installations just ping once per minute, and I can sleep at night. Revolutionary.

Robin Meier

Multimedia artist and composer

Known for Synchronicity (Audemars Piguet Art Commission). Collaborator at IRCAM Centre Pompidou, Paris.

My toolkit is Unity, Arduino, Node, and Google Sheets. Yes, Google Sheets. Monitory is the first thing I've added to that list that I don't have to explain at dinner parties.

Jeff Crouse

Creative technologist and interactive director

Founder of See-through Lab. Work shown at Sundance, Performa, Palais de Tokyo, Barbican.

Every time a bee is moving in my installation, my phone is ringing! I turned the notifications off eventually, but I still like to open the app just to see how they are doing.

Justine Emard

Visual artist

Exhibited at Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Barbican London, ZKM Karlsruhe. France Pavilion, Expo 2025 Osaka.

Tools that plug right in.

Monitory for Mac

A menu bar app for the Mac running your show. It relaunches your app when it crashes, keeps the screen black in between, boots the whole installation in order and reports every crash.

About the Mac app

RunningMyExhibition.app
Auto-restart apps on crash✓
Show black screen✓
Hide macOS menu bar✓

monitory.js and C++

A zero-dependency client for Node, Electron and the browser, and a C++11 one for native builds. Both retry on their own.

app.js

const monitor = Monitory({ url: '…/api/v1/webhooks/YOUR_TOKEN' });
await monitor.ping();
await monitor.send({ visitors: 212 });

More, when you need it.

The remote agent and the assistant are switched on per account. Ask and we'll turn them on for you.

On request

Remote agent

A small agent for Linux, macOS and Raspberry Pi, installed without sudo. Take a screenshot of what the screen shows, see which processes are running, or open an SSH tunnel for up to eight hours. No VPN, no open ports, no pants required.

Request access

On request

Assistant

You Lyon-02 keeps flickering every few hours.

Monitory It sent 3 crash events today, each followed by a restart. I took a screenshot: the projector output is black while the app is running. Your docs for this device point to the DMX splitter manual.

Request access

Included

Status pages

Send a client or technician a read-only page for a project or a single device. Add a password, let it expire after anything from six hours to 30 days, revoke it whenever you like.

How sharing works

Start monitoring in two minutes.

No credit card, no agent, no meetings about it. Just curl.