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Latest news about product, uptime monitoring, DevOps, observability and more...

  • Uptime Robot Gets An API!

    After many requests from the users who would like to integrate Uptime Robot with their apps or create other interfaces for it (like a desktop or mobile), the Uptime Robot API is launched today which makes such integrations possible and so easy. This is the v1 of the API which covers most of the important […]

  • Twitter DM Notifications Are Fixed (Were They Down?)

    A small update on a fix:a PHP-version update on the server of Uptime Robot’s engine (1.5 days ago) had caused our Twitter DM notifications library to not function properly. The good news : it is fixed now and working as expected. Sorry for that guys -and, we have experienced that a serious number of things […]

  • Better Accuracy With Multi-Continent Monitoring (& New IPs)

    You’ll remember that Uptime Robot is controlling the monitors from multiple locations to double-check and make sure that they are really down or up. Although things work close to perfect, there are 2 downsides: all the monitoring nodes are located in US datacenters which makes it possible to get false/positives if the “website being monitored” […]

  • Small Update: Notification Messages Now Include The Amount Of Downtime

    This is a very small feature and wanted to activate it before rolling the bigger update that is being working on. When a monitor goes “down” first and “up” afterwards, Uptime Robot used to send the info: “The monitor XY (http://www.xy.com/) is back up”. Right now, it includes the amount of downtime so you won’t […]

  • New Feature – Monitoring Ports

    Here comes a “frequently requested feature”: Monitoring Ports. Uptime Robot now enables you to monitor any port/service (like HTTP, FTP, DNS, SMTP, POP, IMAP, etc.) and find out if they are responding or not. Under the re-organized “Add New Monitor” menu, the feature can be reached by simply selecting “TCP Ports”. After that, Uptime Robot […]

  • Uptime Robot Interface Becomes Much More Speedy

    Uptime Robot is generating and keeping 1000s of logs each day in order to display reports and help you reach the past data. There are already millions of records and, as expected, working with huge datasets normally end up in a slower experience. We were working hard to improve the speed of the Uptime Robot […]