{"id":132,"date":"2014-03-28T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T10:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:30:02","slug":"ssl-only-login-addition-to-api-and-new-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/ssl-only-login-addition-to-api-and-new-server\/","title":{"rendered":"SSL-only login, Addition to API and New Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">For the last month, we were working hard to improve the monitoring engine and pretty excited with how stable it became.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Also, few visible updates exist and here they are:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>SSL-Login<\/h3>\n<p>Many users were asking for a specific login page so that their &#8220;password managers&#8221; would automate the login process.\u00a0Right now, the login has its own page.<\/p>\n<p>And, the login page + dashboard are now served SSL-only.<\/p>\n<h3>New Server<\/h3>\n<p>A new server is added to the system for a much more stable monitoring experience.<\/p>\n<p>For users that need to whitelist IPs, its IP (74.86.158.106) was already <a href=\"http:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/locations\">listed here<\/a>, so, you probably don&#8217;t need to.<\/p>\n<h3>Addition to the API<\/h3>\n<p>For <code>newMonitor<\/code> and <code>editMonitor<\/code> methods, there is now an optional <code>monitorInterval<\/code> parameter for setting the checking interval. 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