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Cron job monitoring

Streamline Your Scheduling With the Best 9 Cron Job Monitoring Tools

Welcome to the world of cron job monitoring tools, where you can ensure your scheduled tasks run like clockwork and devices connected to the internet are still up and running! Cron job monitoring sends you alerts if something goes wrong and the tool doesn’t receive a request from your end. They keep you informed with […]

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Announcements

Planned Maintenance: Enhancing Heartbeat Monitoring Stability

We’re excited to announce that we will be migrating our Heartbeat monitoring to a new server provider this week. Here are all the important details. This migration will enable us to optimize our infrastructure and increase the reliability for you, our valued users. The new provider claims an availability of  ≥99.999%. We’ve decided to migrate […]

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Announcements

May 2023: Monitor Your Domain Expiration Feature

Remember when we promised you some exciting news in the UptimeRobot Discord server blog? The day has finally arrived! We’re happy to introduce our latest feature – domain expiration monitoring! Expired domains can make your website totally inaccessible and cause damage to your brand and business. Fixing expired domains can take days, and at the […]

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Announcements

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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Best practices

10 Incident Management Best Practices

Before we dive into the nitty-gritty of incident management, let’s look a bit closer at the actual meaning of ‘incident.’ In the world of IT service management, the official definition for ‘incident’ is an “unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service.” Whether that means a slowdown in […]

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Website monitoring

Top 10 Website Monitoring Tools of 2023

In today’s digital landscape, where websites and online services play a crucial role in businesses’ success, having continuous uptime and optimal performance is of the utmost importance. This is where website monitoring tools come into the picture. Monitoring tools act as our vigilant sentries, constantly watching over our websites, servers, and applications to detect any […]

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Website monitoring

What Does 99.99% Uptime Really Mean?

Let’s face it, in today’s always-on digital world, a minute without access to a website or service can feel like a lifetime. You’ve probably heard the term “99.99% uptime” before. It’s an important factor for providers (such as hosting or app providers) and key to improving a website’s reliability and a company’s customer satisfaction. But […]

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Website monitoring

Embracing Planned Downtime: Why It’s Crucial For Your Website’s Health

You’ve probably heard plenty of horror stories of unplanned website downtime wreaking havoc on businesses and costing companies thousands or even millions in lost revenue. So if you’re worried, we can’t blame you! Website downtime is usually a nightmare for any company relying on having a steady online presence.  But not all downtime is bad. […]

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Observability Tutorials

Observability: A Complete Guide

As technology advances, so does the need for software engineers and DevOps teams to understand the precise inner workings of the systems they create. In 2023, observability is quickly becoming a key factor in gaining success for many businesses. The study states that many businesses are in different stages of adopting observability into their arsenal […]

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Website monitoring

The Biggest Website Outages of All Time

  As much as we all love the internet and everything it offers, we’ve also all experienced that sinking feeling when we try to access our favorite website, only to find it’s down.  If you run your own site, you know that uptime is crucial for your online success — so that sinking feeling in […]