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Uptime monitors

Watch your websites and get told when something goes down.

What uptime monitors areWe check your website or API from four parts of the world, and tell you when it stops responding.Create a monitorAll a monitor needs is a name and an address. The defaults check every 5 minutes.What counts as down, and how to avoid false alarmsA check fails if your site does not respond in time or returns an error. A wait you choose avoids alarms for short blips.Advanced monitor settingsChange the request method, follow redirects, add a header or a password, and warn before a certificate or domain expires.Pause, edit or delete a monitorPause checks during planned work, change a monitor's settings, or remove it when you no longer need it.Read a monitor's pageSee response times, availability, downtime, and every check, with a filter for failed checks.See incidents and add notesEach outage is recorded as an incident, with its cause, how long it lasted, and notes from your team.How many monitors you can haveA company can run 50 monitors at once. Monitoring is included with your account.

Alerts

Get alerts by emailTurn on email in a monitor's notification settings, and choose the people who get it.Get alerts in SlackConnect your Slack workspace, add the channels you want, and choose them on each monitor.Send alerts to a webhookSend a request to any address when something happens to a monitor. Use it with PagerDuty, Discord, Zapier or your own system.

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