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Recent Outage of Meta and Google Ads: How to Prevent Potential Loses

On Tuesday, March 5th, Facebook, Instagram and Google Ads experienced widespread outages that lasted for nearly two hours, affecting thousands of users worldwide. More than 550,000 reports poured in from Facebook users, and Instagram received 92,000 similar complaints, as reported by Reuters. As Meta stated on their newest platform, Threads: ”Earlier today, a technical issue […]

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Join the UptimeRobot Community on Discord!

It’s been a few months since our February update, and we’ll be sharing some exciting news with you soon. But this time, we’d love to invite you to join our brand-new Discord Group. Embrace the Power of Community One of the key factors contributing to UptimeRobots’ success is its large and supportive community. UptimeRobot assists […]

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UptimeRobot August 2021 Update: Configurable Timeout, support improvements and Plesk extension

We’ve been busy this summer and introduced two new features last month – longer intervals and a grace period for recurring jobs monitoring (Heartbeat monitors). There is some good news this month too, so let’s get right into it!  Configurable Timeout Are you monitoring your website’s response time? As an important part of advanced monitoring, […]

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UptimeRobot July 2021 Update: Heartbeat monitor and API rate limits

After adding new features in June we worked on fixing some minor bugs and improving the stability of our service.  We’re happy to announce that besides those fixes, we were also able to introduce a major update to our heartbeat (background job) monitoring. It was requested by many, so let’s take a look at the […]

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UptimeRobot June 2021 Update: SSL info in Dashboard, test notification setup and meta robots tag

Last month was filled with news and we’re happy to report that we were able to finish the other three little features! Let’s take a look at them quickly so you can get back to enjoying the summer 🙂 SSL info in Dashboard You can now see the SSL certificate details under each monitor in […]

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Tutorials

How to check if an item is back in stock?

Are you one of those trying to desperately get your hands on a new RTX 3080, 3070, 3060 Ti, & 3090 in 2021? Or maybe you prefer the new PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X console. Basically, any item that’s on pre-sale or hard to get (including the uniquely designed piece of clothing for your […]

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UptimeRobot May 2021 Update: Discord integration and new payment processor

As promised, we’re back with other monthly updates! We’ve been swamped with different tasks during the last month, so let’s jump right into it.  New Discord Integration Every feedback from our beloved community is welcomed and from what you told us, Discord integration was one of those you missed. Discord alert contact can be simply […]

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UptimeRobot April 2021 Update: Status pages and infrastructure updates

Following our latest updates, which, from now on, we’d love to share with you regularly, we’re happy to announce last month’s news. There’s always space for improvements while doing necessary maintenance, so let’s take a look at it.  SSL certificate issuance It’s great to see you enjoy using our redesigned status pages and we are […]

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UptimeRobot March 2021 Update: New Integrations, Heartbeat & SSL Improvements

While the world is getting more optimistic with the wave of vaccine options, we’re looking forward to introducing you to our latest news.  We’re happy to say we managed to fulfill some of our last year’s promises and are still working on our plans and improving UptimeRobot. We introduced a completely redesigned mobile app and […]

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Latest APIv2 Updates (CORS headers, etc.)

Dear UptimeRobot API users, we have recently published several changes and updates to the APIv2. These changes might affect you, so please take a look at them. Changelog: Your read-only API key is now able to access all entities using the get* methods (previously not all entities were supported). Response CORS headers are provided only […]