Solution

Website uptime monitoring

Multi-region health checks at one-minute intervals. When the site goes down, the on-call engineer gets paged before the support tickets pile up.

Start free trial How it works

Website uptime monitoring continuously checks site accessibility and responsiveness from multiple global locations. When something breaks, the on-call team gets an alert within a minute or two — not when a customer files a ticket an hour later. WebMonitor.fyi handles HTTP checks, response-time tracking, SSL certificate expiration warnings, and content-validation checks (catching the case where the page loads but renders an error banner or a blank screen).

What it does

Multi-region checks

Checks from multiple global regions catch outages that single-region monitoring misses — CDN issues, regional ISP problems, geo-targeted DNS failures.

Content validation

HTTP 200 isn't always "up". Configure a content-validation check that confirms a known string appears on the page. Catches blank renders and error banners that return a 200.

SSL certificate expiration warnings

A heads-up two weeks before the cert expires beats discovering it on the day. Each monitor can include cert expiry tracking.

PagerDuty, Slack, and webhook integration

Route alerts to wherever the on-call workflow lives. PagerDuty for production-critical; Slack for awareness; webhook for custom integrations.

Status page integration

Use the monitor data to drive a public status page or an internal incident dashboard.

How to set it up

Add the URLs to monitor

Production site, login page, primary API endpoints, key marketing pages — anything where downtime has direct business consequences.

Set check frequency per monitor

One-minute checks for revenue-critical paths; five minutes for less critical surfaces.

Configure escalation

PagerDuty for production outages; Slack for awareness across the team; email for non-critical degradations.

Review the data

Monthly uptime reports surface patterns — recurring weekly maintenance windows, slow-response trends, region-specific issues.

Common use cases

E-commerce sites where downtime is direct lost revenue
SaaS platforms with SLA commitments to track and report against
Marketing sites where downtime during a launch campaign is highly visible
API endpoints supporting partner integrations
Internal tools where the on-call team needs early warning of degradation

Honest limits

Uptime monitoring tells you the site is down and how fast. Diagnosing the root cause is engineering work — the monitor is the smoke alarm, not the firefighter. For full observability (traces, logs, metrics), pair uptime monitoring with an APM tool (Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb).

Frequently asked questions

What's the right check frequency for uptime monitoring?

For revenue-critical paths, one-minute intervals — the mean-time-to-detect drops from "tens of minutes" to "under two minutes". For lower-priority paths, five minutes balances cost and signal.

How is this different from Pingdom, UptimeRobot, or StatusCake?

WebMonitor combines uptime monitoring with content-change monitoring on the same platform. The team that already uses WebMonitor for competitor or pricing tracking can run their uptime checks from the same dashboard. For uptime-only use cases, dedicated tools work too — the differentiator is platform consolidation.

Can I monitor an authenticated page?

For authenticated endpoints, monitoring requires either a token-based check (where the monitor sends an API key) or a published health-check endpoint. Setting up authenticated monitoring is on the roadmap; today, public-page monitoring covers most uptime use cases.

How fast are the downtime alerts?

On a one-minute check interval, the alert arrives within 1–2 minutes of the outage starting. Multi-region checks confirm the outage isn't a regional false-positive before paging.