Website Uptime Monitoring
Track website availability and detect outages before users do.
Alertum website uptime monitoring sends HTTP requests to your URLs at regular intervals, checks for expected status codes and response times, and opens incidents when your site becomes unavailable or degrades.
How it works
Website uptime monitoring sends HTTP requests to your URLs at regular intervals, checks for expected status codes and response times, and opens incidents when your site becomes unavailable or degrades beyond thresholds.
Core capabilities
- ·HTTP availability and response time checks
- ·Status code and performance threshold assertions
- ·Incident creation and recovery detection
- ·Historical uptime tracking and reporting
Assertions and thresholds
- ·Expected HTTP status code (200, 301, etc.)
- ·Maximum acceptable response time per check
- ·Failure threshold before incident state changes
Typical use cases
- ·Public-facing website availability monitoring
- ·Landing page and marketing site uptime checks
- ·E-commerce and critical path uptime SLA validation
Frequently asked questions
How often does website uptime monitoring check my site?
Alertum can check your website from every minute up to hourly intervals, depending on your plan configuration.
What counts as a website outage in Alertum?
An outage occurs when your website returns unexpected status codes, times out, or is unreachable for a configured number of consecutive checks.
Does Alertum track response time as part of uptime monitoring?
Yes — Alertum records response time per check and shows historical trends so you can detect degradation before it becomes a full outage.
How do I get alerted when my website goes down?
Configure an escalation policy in Alertum to route website outage incidents via email, Slack, or webhook to your on-call responder.
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