UptimeRobot REST API.

UptimeRobot has an easy-to-use API. It lets you get the details of your monitors, create / edit / delete monitors, alert contacts, maintenance windows and public status pages.

Response format

The API returns data in JSON format.

Rate limits

We are trying to prevent abusive use of our API. We have rate limits based on user plan.

FREE plan : 10 req/min
PRO plan : monitor limit * 2 req/min ( with maximum value 5000 req/min )

We will return 429 HTTP status code in the response from API, when you hit the rate limits. Also we will return common rate limit response headers in the response:

X-RateLimit-Limit - your current rate limit
X-RateLimit-Remaining - number of calls left in current duration
X-RateLimit-Reset - time since epoch in seconds at which the rate limiting period will end (or already ended)
Retry-After - Number of second after you should retry the call

Type of API keys

HTTP Basic Access Authentication is used for verifying accounts.

There are 3 types of api_keys for reaching the data:

Account-specific api_key: Allows using all the API methods on all the monitors of an account.
Monitor-specific api_keys: Allows using only the getMonitors method for the given monitor.
Read-only api_key: Allows fetching data with all the get* API endpoints.

How to get API keys

You can get your API keys from the Integrations page under section API.