Uptime Robot is already integrated with the major team communication apps and here is another addition: Google Hangouts Chat. If you already use Hangouts Chat (which is part of the G Suite of Google), the integration can be setup with just these few steps: Inside Hangouts Chat, create a new web-hook URL in Room menu>Configure webhooks>Add new. Inside Uptime Robot, create […]
Google had announced that Chrome would begin distrusting certificates issued by Symantec Corporation’s PKI and the decision is followed by other major browsers. These are the certificates by Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL that are issued before 1st of December 2017. And, as the distrust is in effect and visitors are displayed an error […]
Uptime Robot sends HEAD requests for HTTP monitors and GET request for keyword monitors by default (and, this is a good default setting for most monitors). On the other hand, there are cases when a customization may be needed, like: Checking if a form in the website works as expected Monitoring your APIs which expect specific methods (a […]
There is never “too much” when it comes to the ways of getting notified about an emergency. And, in some cases, this emergency can be a website or server going down. Today, voice call notification is added to Uptime Robot and it can be very helpful when we want to make sure that a notification is heard :). How to […]
Uptime Robot sends notifications for down and up notifications by default for each alert contact type. However, there can be cases where you may only need the down or up notifications like: minimizing the SMS use handling only the up or down events via web-hooks getting only the SSL expiry notifications but ignoring up/down events There […]
Uptime Robot supports multiple methods to get notified about downtimes on mobile (SMS, push notifications via the mobile app, Pushbullet, Pushover or Boxcar). And, SMS is one of the most reliable notification methods specially when no data plan exists. Also, many users prefer to configure their SMS alert contacts as: “alert if down for x minutes” […]
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