{"id":212,"date":"2015-04-08T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T09:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:01:33","slug":"new-feature-advanced-notification-options-for-the-pro-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/new-feature-advanced-notification-options-for-the-pro-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Feature &#8211; Advanced Notification Options (for the Pro Plan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Uptime Robot<\/strong> offers many ways to get notifications: e-mail, SMS, push messages, web-hooks, 3rd party integrations and more..<\/p>\n<p>And, it delivers a &#8220;down message&#8221; once a monitor is down and an &#8220;up message&#8221; once it is back up.<\/p>\n<h3>The advanced notification\u00a0options<\/h3>\n<p><strong>For the Pro Plan<\/strong>, it is now possible to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>get a &#8220;down notification&#8221; only if the monitor is down for x minutes<\/li>\n<li>and, optionally, keep getting the &#8220;down notifications&#8221; every y minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Simply, we can now tell &#8220;<strong>if down for x minutes alert once<\/strong>&#8221; or &#8220;<strong>if down for x minutes, alert every y minutes<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>And, this is a per monitor per alert setting which is great to have different settings for each monitor or alert contact.<\/p>\n<h3>What it is good for?<\/h3>\n<p>Using this feature, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ignore small downtimes<\/li>\n<li>escalate notifications (if down, send notifications to Alex, if down for 30 minutes, send notification to Brian, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>make sure you don&#8217;t miss a down notification by getting them every x minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to use it?<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-215\" src=\"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/advanced-notifications.gif\" alt=\"Advanced Notifications\" width=\"800\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;add\/edit monitor dialogs&#8221;, you&#8217;ll see a &#8220;<strong>show advanced options<\/strong>&#8221; option. 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