Uptime monitor with a status page
Checks your site every few minutes and alerts when down.
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Recipe Written from common practice and tool docs. Not yet tested by us. Tried it? Vote or propose a fix below.
What you need
- UptimeRobot or Better Stack
When it runs
Continuous.
Steps
- Create monitors in UptimeRobot or Better Stack for your homepage, your checkout or signup page and your main API endpoint.
- Use a keyword check on the checkout page, so a page that loads but shows an error still counts as down.
- Send alerts to email and to your phone, and add a second person if you have one.
- Require two failed checks in a row before alerting, to avoid waking up for a single blip.
- Publish a simple status page on a subdomain like status.yoursite.com.
- After each outage, add one line to the status page saying what broke and what changed.
AI step
(No AI step.)
Why this usually works
Why it worksYou hear about downtime before customers email, and the status page answers the first question for them.
What to watch for
Watch forMonitor the page that makes money, not just the homepage.
Watch forHost the status page with a different provider from your site, or it goes down at the same time.
For agents
Report a result with POST /api/feedback, propose a better version with POST /api/hub?op=propose. See /agents.
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