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By Laura Clayton
Most website monitoring tools look similar until the first real incident. That is when alert speed, false positives, check coverage, and day-to-day usability matter more than a long feature page. UptimeRobot often comes up early for a reason: it is easy to start with, clear to manage, and focused on the checks many teams need first. Still, it is not the only option worth looking at.
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By Kristian Kusenda
Are you one of those trying to desperately get your hands on a new RTX 3080, 3070, 3060 Ti, & 3090 in 2021? Or maybe you prefer the new PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X console. Basically, any item that’s on pre-sale or hard to get (including the uniquely designed piece of clothing for your girlfriend). If your favorite online store doesn’t have a “watchdog”, we have the best solution for you. Now how would you know it’s already back in stock? There’s an easy way!
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By Diana Bocco
Port failures don’t always take a service offline. A port stops accepting connections, times out intermittently, or gets blocked by a firewall change, while everything else looks healthy. When that happens, users feel the break long before uptime checks notice. This article reviews port monitoring tools from an operational point of view. It looks at how they detect closed or slow ports, how alerts behave in noisy environments, and where basic checks fall short during real incidents.
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By Laura Clayton
SSL failures don’t usually break a site all at once. A certificate expires, a chain changes, or a browser update tightens rules, and users start seeing warnings before teams notice. By the time alerts fire, trust has already taken a hit. This post reviews SSL monitoring tools from an operational standpoint. How they detect upcoming expirations, validate certificate chains, and surface issues across environments and domains.
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By Tomas Koprusak
On November 18th, 2025, a large Cloudflare outage briefly broke big chunks of the internet. For several hours, users around the world were greeted with 500 errors, including platforms like X, ChatGPT, Spotify, and many others that run behind Cloudflare’s network. At UptimeRobot, we sit in a slightly unusual spot during events like this: So when Cloudflare has a bad day, we see it twice: once in the alerts we send to our customers, and again in how it affects parts of our own infrastructure.
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By Tomas Koprusak
As you may have noticed, we released the latest version of the UptimeRobot API a few weeks ago. Don’t worry, the v2 will remain available; however, it will no longer receive support or updates. New features will be added only to v3. Built on a RESTful architecture, v3 unlocks more flexibility, cleaner workflows, and expanded capabilities for developers who want tighter control over their monitoring. Below, we’ll highlight what’s new and how it compares to the legacy v2 API.
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By Tomas Koprusak
We’re excited to introduce Monitor Grouping, a new way to organize your monitors directly from the UptimeRobot dashboard. This feature makes it easier to keep track of large sets of monitors and quickly see the health of related services at a glance. Monitor Grouping is available on Solo, Team, and Enterprise plans starting today. Downtime happens. Get notified! Join the world's leading uptime monitoring service with 2.1M+ happy users. Register for FREE.
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By Tomas Koprusak
We’re excited to announce the official release of the UptimeRobot Terraform provider, a feature that many of you have been requesting. Starting today, you can manage your UptimeRobot resources, including monitors, alerting integrations, maintenance windows, and public status pages, directly in your Terraform configuration. Let’s take a closer look.
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By Tomas Koprusak
We’re excited to announce a powerful new addition to your monitoring toolkit: DNS Monitoring is now available on UptimeRobot! DNS (Domain Name System) is a core component of internet functionality. When DNS records are misconfigured, hijacked, or simply expire, they can lead to serious outages, broken email services, or even security risks. That’s why we’ve introduced DNS Monitoring – to help you stay in control of your domain’s health at all times.
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By Tomas Koprusak
Performance issues can sneak up before they turn into full-blown outages. Get notified when your website or service takes longer than usual to respond. We’re excited to announce that you can now set up response time thresholds and receive alerts when performance dips below your expected level. This means you can take action early, improve user experience, and prevent minor slowdowns from becoming major problems.
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By WPBuilders
Learn how to monitor the uptime and downtime of your website for FREE! This is a great tool!
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By WPBuilders
This is a video tutorial gives a step by step process to configure Uptime Robot to monitor your website and alert you if your website goes down.
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Downtime Happens. Get Notified! 50 Monitors, Checked Every 5 Minutes, Totally Free!
UptimeRobot is an uptime monitoring service that helps users to get acknowledged of the downtimes of their websites/servers and also track their performance.
Simple-yet-powerful features:
- Multiple types: Check HTTP(s), ping, port and keywords.
- Get alerted: Via e-mail, SMS, voice calls, Telegram, Slack, Microsoft Teams, push, web-hooks...
- Reach the stats: View uptime, downtime and the response times.
- Maintenance windows: Define time periods in order to not get monitored.
- Public status pages: Share the stats with your teammates and/or visitors (demo).
It is actively used by 600,000+ users with a much greater number of monitors being checked regularly.
The Pro Plan offers additional features including 1-min monitoring, SSL certificate checks, maintenance windows and more customization.