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Once a monitor is detected as down (and back up), Uptime Robot was sending notifications to all alert contacts defined in the “My Settings” page.. until today. We have rolled an exciting update today where you can assign different alert contacts for each monitor. Let’s say: you have 10 monitors, 3 of them are your […]

Since the launch of the API ~a month ago, we are so excited to see many users integrating Uptime Robot ratios to their websites or auto-creating/deleting monitors from their apps. Also, several wrappers and code samples are shared which eases consuming the "easy-to-use" API more. As you know, the standard Uptime Robot apiKey can pull […]

The websites or web pages preferring to stay private and having a password (Basic access authentication), normally returns HTTP 401 status which ends up being marked as “down” by Uptime Robot. Uptime Robot now has support for monitoring password-protected websites by optionally mentioning the username-password in the monitor’s settings. The feature exists for both HTTP […]

Besides being the developers of Uptime Robot, as website owners, we know that getting notified of downtimes instantly is so important. Uptime Robot already has a wide range of notification methods: e-mail, text message, Twitter DMs, RSS and API. Today, we are introducing a new notification method: push notifications for İOS -iPhone, iPad And iPod– […]

After many requests from the users who would like to integrate Uptime Robot with their apps or create other interfaces for it (like a desktop or mobile), the Uptime Robot API is launched today which makes such integrations possible and so easy. This is the v1 of the API which covers most of the important […]

A small update on a fix:a PHP-version update on the server of Uptime Robot’s engine (1.5 days ago) had caused our Twitter DM notifications library to not function properly. The good news : it is fixed now and working as expected. Sorry for that guys -and, we have experienced that a serious number of things […]