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My Website is Down! Ten Steps to Take During a Downtime Event

Oh no. Your website is down. And regardless of what time it is we guarantee it’s not a convenient time for your website to crash. An outage can cause a panicked fight-or-flight response when teams are unprepared for the consequences. One of the worst ways to deal with downtime is to try and wait it out thinking it’ll just magically resolve itself.

Upgrade Alert: Test Your Internal Infrastructure with Enhanced Private Location Monitoring

External servers need to be monitored but it’s your backend infrastructure that supports them. Looking for a reliable way to monitor your internal networks? You’re in luck! Uptime.com Private Location monitoring is just the tool for you.

Get to Know the Uptime.com Github

Uptime.com maintains a Github, which we update with important and useful resources for those seeking a command-line approach to Uptime.com. We also house important files there for users of our private location probe servers. When you want to use our REST API, and you need help getting started, our Github is a good place to begin. Access our Github here. Today, we want to introduce you to our project, discuss why we chose Github, and share what we hope to accomplish in the future.

HTTP(S) Check Upgrade | HTTP(S) Monitoring Improvements from Uptime.com

Our bread and butter is checking for uptime, and we always recommend users begin their monitoring with the HTTP(S) check. We call it a basic check type, but its functionality is boosted when you start exploring optional parameters. The Uptime.com HTTP(S) check can do a lot more than check for server status 200 OK.

How to Manage Your Monitoring with Subaccounts

The need to implement 360° monitoring of a multi-service infrastructure is almost a universal truth among growing companies. With an expanding pool of clients and services to monitor, segmentation is the key to smooth operation. Monitoring with subaccounts is prime management solution. The trick is to simplify your account structure without limiting your visibility. To evaluate, we’re going to dive to a cellular level. Size matters.

15 Ways to Use the Uptime.com HTTP(S) Check Effectively

Uptime.com checks can test anytime, from anywhere, to catch the downtime incidents you need caught. With worldwide probes, or through private locations that monitor your internal network, we reliably detect outages and monitor performance across your websites, applications, servers and infrastructure. Read on to explore 15 use cases for the HTTP(S) check type. HTTP(S) checks validate if a server is up or down, while reducing the possibility of false positives.

GDPR Compliance With Uptime.com | What You Need to Know

Uptime.com is GDPR compliant as of 2021. Becoming GDPR compliant required an organization-wide dedication to maintaining privacy and security to meet these new standards. These updates impact everything from working with support to our team logging in for work each day. Today, we’ll tackle what GDPR means to our organization, how these changes affect your usage of Uptime.com, and what we’re doing now (and into the future) to protect your personal data.

25 Ways to Monitor Your Site with An Uptime.com Free Trial

With a service as intricate as monitoring it’s nearly impossible to have all your questions answered just by exploring the product website. No matter how clear the pricing and feature descriptions are, it’s hard for a feature description to tell you if it can rise to every occasion your devops team will face. A free trial is an opportunity to connect with a service and test for your use cases.

How Does Internal Uptime Monitoring Work?

Your site or application runs on a server, which is just another computer inside some server warehouse. That server is subject to the same kinds of limitations as your personal computer, and you need a way to determine usage of those resources similar to the internal monitoring for disk space or CPU usage that you find inside a Windows or Mac operating system. These internal metrics collectively determine the power or capacity of your server.