UptimeRobot
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Features
46 features across 14 categories
Access Control(1)
Manage access with granular permissions including role assignment, visibility limits, and control over editing monitors, viewing alerts, and managing integrations
Alerting(6)
Receive notifications via email when monitors detect issues
Forward email alerts as SMS messages
Get real-time push alerts on iOS and Android mobile apps
Configure notifications to repeat or escalate over time until acknowledged
Get alerted via SMS text message when downtime or issues occur
Receive phone call notifications for critical alerts
Communication(5)
Customize status page appearance with custom domains and branding options
Add password protection to status pages for private visibility
Post incident and maintenance announcements with subscriber email notifications
Prevent status pages from being indexed by search engines
Create branded, real-time status pages to share uptime, incidents, and maintenance updates with custom domains and branding
Compliance(3)
Compliant with California Consumer Privacy Act regulations
Compliant with General Data Protection Regulation requirements
Service Organization Control 2 certified for security and availability
Configuration(1)
Schedule maintenance periods to suppress alerts and keep uptime data accurate during planned updates
Data Management(1)
Store monitoring history and incident data with configurable retention periods (3-24 months depending on plan)
Incident Management(2)
Track, prioritize, and resolve incidents fast with notes, timelines, and status updates
Track incidents with root cause details and comments
Integration(3)
Programmatic access to monitors, incidents, and status pages via REST API
Integration with Model Context Protocol for advanced automation
Send monitor data and alerts to custom webhook endpoints
Mobile(1)
Monitor on the go with iOS and Android apps for real-time alerts and incident management
Monitoring(14)
Know if a scheduled job fails or goes missing
Define custom HTTP headers and expected status codes for monitoring
Catch unauthorized DNS changes early
Track domain expiration dates to prevent service disruptions
Reduces false alarms by rechecking failures across multiple checker nodes and locations before opening incidents
Monitor cron jobs and scheduled tasks using heartbeat/ping mechanism
Monitor any HTTP(s) endpoint or page for availability and performance
Get alerted if a keyword appears or disappears on a monitored page
Verify uptime from multiple global locations to eliminate false positives and detect regional outages
Ensure your server or any device in the network is always available
Monitor specific TCP ports for services like SMTP, POP3, FTP and other services
Detect performance issues before they cause downtime with custom threshold alerts
Monitor SSL certificates and domain expiry dates
Track visual changes on any webpage
Reporting(3)
Get comprehensive reports and downtime analysis for troubleshooting and SLA tracking
Receive monthly summaries of uptime, downtime, and monitoring statistics via email
Track analytics and insights for your status pages
Security(1)
Secure account access with two-factor authentication
Support(1)
Personal account manager for enterprise customers
Tools(4)
Free tool to create and validate crontab expressions
Free tool to instantly check DNS records for any domain
Free tool to calculate subnet information for any IP address
Free tool to calculate uptime percentages, downtime, and outage costs
Pricing
Free
- ✓50 monitors
- ✓5 minute monitoring interval
- ✓HTTP, port & ping monitor
- ✓Keyword monitor
- ✓Location-specific monitoring
- ✓Slow response alerts
- ✓DNS monitoring
- ✓SSL & Domain expiry monitor
- ✓Only 5 integrations
- ✓Basic status pages
- ✓No notify seats
- ✓No login seats
- ✓3 months data retention
- ✓Mobile app access
Solo
- ✓50 monitors
- ✓60 second monitoring interval
- ✓HTTP, port & ping monitor
- ✓Keyword monitor
- ✓Location-specific monitoring
- ✓Slow response alerts
- ✓DNS monitoring
- ✓SSL & Domain expiry monitor
- ✓Only 9 integrations
- ✓Basic status pages
- ✓No notify seats
- ✓No login seats
- ✓12 months data retention
- ✓Mobile app access
- ✓Email and SMS alerts with extra credits
- ✓Custom headers & statuses
- ✓Maintenance windows
- ✓Incident comments
Team
Popular- ✓100 monitors
- ✓60 second monitoring interval
- ✓HTTP, port & ping monitor
- ✓Keyword monitor
- ✓Location-specific monitoring
- ✓Slow response alerts
- ✓DNS monitoring
- ✓SSL & Domain expiry monitor
- ✓All 12 integrations
- ✓Full-featured status pages
- ✓3 notify seats included
- ✓3 login seats included
- ✓24 months data retention
- ✓Mobile app access
- ✓Email and SMS alerts with credits
- ✓Custom headers & statuses
- ✓Maintenance windows
- ✓Incident comments
- ✓Status page translations
- ✓100 status pages
Enterprise
- ✓200 monitors (starting)
- ✓500 monitors option
- ✓1000+ monitors option
- ✓30 second monitoring interval
- ✓HTTP, port & ping monitor
- ✓Keyword monitor
- ✓Location-specific monitoring
- ✓Slow response alerts
- ✓DNS monitoring
- ✓SSL & Domain expiry monitor
- ✓All 12 integrations
- ✓Full-featured status pages
- ✓5 notify seats included
- ✓5 login seats included
- ✓24 months data retention
- ✓Mobile app access
- ✓Email and SMS alerts with credits
- ✓Custom headers & statuses
- ✓Maintenance windows
- ✓Incident comments
- ✓Unlimited status pages
- ✓Status page translations
- ✓Whitelabeled status page
- ✓Password on status page
- ✓SOC 2, CCPA, GDPR compliant
- ✓Dedicated success manager
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Integrations
12 known integrations