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For the last month, we were working hard to improve the monitoring engine and pretty excited with how stable it became. Also, few visible updates exist and here they are: SSL-Login Many users were asking for a specific login page so that their “password managers” would automate the login process. Right now, the login has its […]

There is a new “alert contact type” in town: “Web Hooks“. In its simplest form, “Uptime Robot sends a request to a URL that you mention” with all parameters of the monitor. After that, you can handle this request and use the information in it for many possible things like sending custom notifications to your […]

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 […]