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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 […]

Uptime Robot, by default, sends all HTTP requests with pre-defined HTTP headers. Now, it is possible to customize this totally with the “Custom HTTP Headers” feature that can be found in the Pro Plan’s “Add/Edit Monitor Dialog>Advanced>Custom Headers” option. Sample use cases: For monitoring the mobile version of a web page, we can use a mobile “User-Agent” […]

Getting notifications of downtime/uptime via Slack or HipChat is widely used. Yet, until now, it was only possible to “target” rooms and not users. There is now a “custom text” feature in the “Add/Edit Alert Contact” dialogs for HipChat and Slack where the text mentioned there will be sent with each notification. As an example, we can […]