Uptime monitoring for websites and APIs
Learn what uptime monitoring is, why teams rely on it, and how Pingscalate combines scheduled checks with Slack and email alerts.
What is uptime monitoring?
Uptime monitoring checks whether your websites, APIs, and services respond correctly on a regular schedule. Instead of learning about an outage from angry users, you get an early warning when a URL stops returning the status code or response you expect.
A good uptime monitor tracks availability over time, logs failures, and alerts your team through channels they already use—like Slack or email.
Why uptime monitoring matters
Downtime costs revenue, trust, and engineering time. Even short outages can break signups, payments, or API integrations your customers depend on.
Scheduled checks give you a baseline: uptime percentage, response patterns, and a timeline of incidents. That context makes post-mortems faster and helps you spot flaky endpoints before they become full outages.
How Pingscalate approaches uptime checks
Pingscalate runs HTTP and HTTPS checks on a schedule you choose. Add a URL, configure GET or POST, optional headers, and a user agent that matches real traffic—especially useful behind Cloudflare and similar filters.
Results appear in a status dashboard with per-monitor uptime and history. When a check fails, Slack or email alerts fire according to your escalation policy. Share a public status page so customers can see uptime without logging in.
Beyond HTTP uptime
Pingscalate also monitors SSL certificate and domain registration expiry on a daily schedule. The same escalation policies handle website downtime and expiry alerts, so your team uses one workflow for all monitor types.
What to monitor first
Start with your highest-impact URLs: production app entry points, authentication flows, payment or billing APIs, and public status-critical endpoints.
The free plan includes 5 monitors with 5-minute checks, a public status page, and SSL/domain monitoring—enough to cover your core surfaces while you evaluate the service. Pro (20 monitors) and Max (50 monitors) plans add more monitors and faster intervals.
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