What is UptimeRobot?
UptimeRobot is a comprehensive monitoring service designed to keep track of websites, servers, and other online resources. It offers a wide range of monitoring options, including website uptime, SSL certificate expiration, domain expiration, cron job (heartbeat) functionality, port status, ping responses, and keyword presence or absence.
The service provides timely alerts via various channels like email, SMS, voice calls, and integrations with popular platforms such as Slack, Zapier, Telegram, Discord, and Microsoft Teams. UptimeRobot helps ensure users are the first to know about any downtime or issues, minimizing disruptions and potential losses.
Features
- Website monitoring: Be the first to know that your website is down!
- SSL monitoring: Don't lose visitors because of an expired SSL certificate.
- Domain monitoring: Don't let your unique domain name expire.
- Cron job monitoring: Monitor recurring background jobs or intranet devices.
- Port monitoring: Monitor any specific service running on any port.
- Ping monitoring: Check the availability of network devices.
- Keyword monitoring: Check presence or absence of specific text on the page.
- Share incident updates: Send status updates via email to your Status page subscribers.
- Response time monitoring: See your response times in a chart to reveal performance hiccups.
- Multi-location checks: We verify incidents from multiple locations to prevent false-positives.
Use Cases
- Monitoring website uptime and receiving alerts for downtime.
- Tracking SSL certificate expiration to prevent website security issues.
- Monitoring domain name expiration to avoid losing domain ownership.
- Ensuring the continuous operation of background jobs and cron tasks.
- Checking the status of specific ports and services.
- Verifying network device availability using ping.
- Monitoring for the presence or absence of specific keywords on a webpage.
- Maintaining status pages to inform customers about incidents.
FAQs
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Can I order SMS / voice call credits separately?
You can order extra SMS / voice call credits with your free plan, or any paid plan. Pay with a credit card. Please note, that confirmation SMS for adding/changing alert contact will also consume credit(s). For SMS package pricing click here. -
How can I pay?
You can pay with your Visa, Maestro, MasterCard, Discover/Novus, Diners Club, American Express card. -
Can I cancel my plan?
You can cancel your subscription any time in your account settings and let it expire back to the Free Plan. -
What's your refund policy?
If you’re not satisfied with the service or features, you can request a refund within 10 days of your last payment.
