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It is already possible to monitor websites that require “HTTP basic auth” with Uptime Robot by providing login details. However, it was not possible to monitor authentication-required websites without providing the auth credentials as Uptime Robot was considering any HTTP 401 response as “down”. A logic update is applied today that will count HTTP 401 […]

With the new version of Uptime Robot’s front-end, response time data was also added as a new feature. However, it was not available in the API until today as we were experimenting ways to keep this huge data. Things look pretty stable now and response times can now be reached via API. As expected, the […]

Uptime Robot’s website and dashboard have changed completely few months ago. It is not announced until now as we didn’t think it was complete before it works on all devices. And, it is now optimized for all resolutions. With the new dashboard, we wanted the things to be still simplistic but ease presenting other useful […]

It has been 3 years since Uptime Robot has launched. The service taught us a lot about scaling, advanced HTTP and managing a widely-used product. We saw that no two sites, servers or networks are the same and learned how to deal with them all. We try hard to make it stay simple-yet-functional, improve the […]

Many of the Uptime Robot users are enjoying the RSS notification feature which allows "anyone (with your unique RSS address)" to view all up/down events of your account via RSS. Some developers use this for integrating the events to their websites and others add the feed to their RSS readers to see any events from […]

The number of users utilizing Uptime Robot is regularly growing and, in order to fulfill this growth, a new monitoring engine will be added to the system by this Monday (2 July 2012). If you never needed to whitelist Uptime Robot's IPs to make the monitoring work correctly, than it is ok to ignore this […]