UptimeRobot is an uptime monitoring service that continuously checks the availability of websites, APIs, and other endpoints, sending alerts when downtime, performance degradation, or content changes occur, helping users discover system issues before their users do, and providing status pages and incident management tools.
Main monitoring capabilities:
- Website monitoring: Monitor any HTTP(S) endpoint or page.
- Keyword monitoring: Trigger alerts when a keyword appears or disappears.
- Ping monitoring: Ensure servers or devices within a network are always available.
- Port monitoring: Suitable for SMTP, POP3, FTP, and other services running on specific TCP ports.
- Cron job monitoring: Know whether scheduled tasks fail or are missed.
- DNS record monitoring: Detect unauthorized DNS changes early.
- It can also monitor SSL certificates, domain expiration, website content changes, and more. It supports monitoring your own assets, third-party vendors, or dependencies.
How to use:
- Sign up for a free account, click Add New Monitor on the dashboard, select the HTTP(S) type and enter the URL, and set the monitoring interval and optional parameters (timeout, redirects, keyword checks).
- Add notification channels and save the monitor; optionally create a status page.
- Monitoring check intervals vary by plan: every 5 minutes for the free version, every 60 seconds for Solo/Team, and every 30 seconds for Enterprise.
Alerts and integrations: Personal notification channels include email, SMS, voice calls, mobile app push notifications, and Email-to-SMS; integrations include more than 20 services such as Telegram, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Mattermost, PagerDuty, Splunk On-Call, Pushbullet, Pushover, and more. Custom workflows can use Webhooks, Zapier, MCP, or the API.
Status pages: You can create real-time status pages with branding and custom domains, displaying uptime, incidents, and maintenance updates without additional tools. It supports incident history, automatic embedding of monitors, password protection, and private pages, helping reduce support tickets and keep users informed.
Advanced features: Multi-location checks (verify uptime from multiple global locations to reduce false positives), response time alerts (notify when a custom threshold is exceeded), incident management tools (log, prioritize, and quickly resolve incidents, with team notes, timelines, and status updates), role-based teamaccess permissions, and maintenance windows (pause alerts during scheduled maintenance to keep uptime data accurate).
Use cases: Suitable for developers, teams, agencies, service providers, and software companies that need to monitor websites, APIs, servers, network services, certificates, and scheduled tasks.
Limits and pricing: The free version provides 50 monitors; for more monitors (over 500), you can book an enterprise demo. The Enterprise version provides SOC 2, DPA and MSA, custom invoicing, purchase orders and net payment terms, onboarding support, and a dedicated customer success manager. No installation is required, no credit card is needed to get started, and monitoring can be started within 30 seconds. Specific prices for other paid plans are not provided in the materials.
