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Getting the notifications inside the team communication app you use can make things easy as this may be where you’ll be discussing how to make that website/server back online. Besides the Slack integration, Uptime Robot now has support for Microsoft Teams too. It simply works by creating an incoming webhook URL at the Teams app and creating a […]

In case you haven’t seen or used it, there is a “Bulk Actions link” just under the “Add Monitor button” in the left sidebar. It simply opens the “Bulk Actions dialog” and presents a set of actions that can be applied to monitors in bulk.   This feature is now more powerful with few important additions […]

Uptime Robot offers multiple ways to get notified of downtime. And, here comes another exciting one. Thanks to its bot framework and API support, it is now possible to get down/up/SSL notifications via Telegram messaging app.     The usage is pretty simple: go to My Settings>Alert Contacts>New>Telegram create the alert contact click the unique […]

HTTPS is becoming the “default” for any website whether it is a blog, portal, e-commerce or corporate one. And, this year, Uptime Robot has sponsored 2 great projects, Let’s Encrypt (a free SSL CA) and Caddy (a free web server with SSL built-in) to help to push this forward. However, a website with an SSL certificate requires […]

Cloudflare is an impressive service/platform for securing and speeding up websites. If you use Cloudflare and have a “status page with a custom-domain” in Uptime Robot, “there may be a small configuration needed” to make sure things work smooth. IMPORTANT: These settings don’t work with flattened CNAMEs, disable this feature first. Who needs the custom configuration? If […]

For HTTP monitors, Uptime Robot considers them as up or down according to the HTTP statuses returned (or if “no response returns at all”). If the HTTP status returned is: between 200 and 399, it is considered as “up” bigger than 399, is considered as “down” with an exception: equals 401 and no authentication info is defined, it […]