Uptime monitoring for websites and APIs

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.

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.

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 alerts fire according to your escalation policy so the right people respond quickly.

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 3 monitors with 15-minute checks—enough to cover your core surfaces while you evaluate the service.