Uptime monitoring
Know about downtime before your clients do. Monitor websites and API endpoints with fast checks, clear incident history, and alerts that stay actionable.
Downtime is expensive (and usually messy)
A 12-minute outage can turn into a two-hour incident: clients start emailing, dashboards show partial failures, and you’re trying to answer “is it fixed?” without a timeline.
- • Lost revenue (orders, signups, leads).
- • Support load: tickets, calls, Slack pings.
- • Reputation damage: “it was down again” sticks.
What we do
We run repeated checks against your endpoints, detect failures, and turn them into a clean incident history you can trust.
- • HTTP(S) monitoring for websites and APIs.
- • Track response time (so you spot slowdowns before a full outage).
- • Incident timeline with start/end time, duration, and status updates.
How it works
Paste a URL (website or API). Optionally add a name like “Client portal API” to keep your list readable.
Choose interval and basic validation: expected status code, keyword, or simple JSON/text match (so “200 OK” isn’t a false positive).
When the check fails, we create an incident and notify you. When it recovers, the timeline closes — and your uptime history stays clean.
Features
Run checks at consistent intervals so you find outages early (and can prove when they started).
See latency trends and catch “it’s slow” moments before users call it downtime.
Each outage becomes a clear record: when it started, when it ended, and how long it lasted.
Validate content, status codes, and basic responses to avoid green checks on broken pages (login loops, error pages, maintenance banners).
Start with email alerts. Step 3 expands to Teams, Slack, Discord, and SMS (premium) for faster response.
Keep a clean list of the services you’re responsible for and share status updates without endless back-and-forth.
Common use cases
Monitor the public app + critical API endpoints so you catch regressions immediately after deploys.
Spot checkout failures and slow response times early — before conversion drops and ad spend gets wasted.
Monitor client sites and portals, keep a simple incident history, and send one status link when something breaks.
FAQ
What exactly counts as “down”?
A check is considered failing when the endpoint doesn’t respond, times out, or fails your validation (for example: wrong status code, missing keyword, or unexpected response). This reduces false positives like “200 OK” pages that are actually broken.
Can I monitor APIs, not just websites?
Yes. If it has a URL, you can monitor it. A common pattern is monitoring /health, /status, or a lightweight endpoint that confirms the API is working end-to-end.
How often do checks run?
You choose an interval appropriate for the service. Shorter intervals detect issues earlier, longer intervals reduce noise. The goal is predictable checks and a timeline you can trust.
How do alerts work?
Step 1 starts with email alerts for downtime. Step 3 expands notifications to chat tools (Teams/Slack/Discord) and SMS (premium) so on-call response is faster.
Do you keep an incident history?
Yes. Each incident has a start time, end time, duration, and a clear “down → up” timeline. That makes reporting and client communication much easier.
Can I share uptime status with clients?
Yes — pair uptime monitoring with Status Pages. Share one public link during incidents so clients stop asking for updates in every channel.
Create your account, add your first endpoint, and start building a clean uptime history.