Getting Started

UptimeChecker is a lightweight, reliable monitoring tool designed specifically for developers using free-tier infrastructure. It ensures your side projects never sleep by sending perfectly timed heartbeats.

dashboard-overview

How it works

Adding Services

You can monitor any HTTP or HTTPS endpoint. This includes REST APIs, static websites, database endpoints, and Redis caches.

Managing Services

Active vs. Paused

You can easily toggle services between active and paused states. A paused service will not be pinged and will not trigger alerts. This is perfect for temporarily taking down a project for maintenance without losing your configuration.

Manual Pings

Need to verify a service immediately? Use the manual "Ping" button on any service card. There is a short 30-second cooldown between manual pings to prevent abuse.

Team Workspaces

Collaboration is at the heart of the Team plan. Workspaces allow you to invite team members, share services, and manage access roles in a unified environment.

Create Workspace

Member Management

Inviting Team Members

Inviting a new member is simple. Just enter their email and assign a role (Admin or Member). They will receive an invitation link that allows them to join your workspace instantly.

• •
  Admin: Can manage services, invite members, and update settings.
• •
  Member: Can view services, receive alerts, and trigger manual pings.

Email Invitations

When you invite a member, they receive a professional invitation email. They can join your team with a single click, ensuring a smooth onboarding experience for your entire organization.

Sharing Services

You can move any service from your Personal account to a Workspace at any time. This allows your entire team to monitor the same infrastructure and receive shared notifications.

Transfer logic

Shared appearance

Audit Logs

Keep track of everything happening in your workspace. Audit logs provide a chronological history of critical actions, ensuring transparency and accountability for your team.

Analytics

Track the reliability of your infrastructure over time. Monitor uptime trends, average response times, and identify issues before they affect your users.

Notifications

Stay informed the moment a service goes down or recovers. Configure multiple channels to ensure you never miss a critical alert.

Email Alerts

Directly to your registered inbox. Reliable and always enabled by default for crucial downtime notifications.

Slack Webhooks

Connect an incoming webhook to get instant alerts directly in your team's Slack channels.

Discord Integration

Pipe status updates straight into your Discord server using native webhook integration.

Microsoft Teams

Send automated uptime alerts to any channel via Microsoft Teams Workflows.

API Access

Automate your infrastructure monitoring by integrating UptimeChecker directly into your CI/CD pipelines and internal dashboards using our secure REST API. Available on Pro and Team plans.

Authentication

Generate your unique API credentials from the Settings dashboard. Save the key as an environment variable (e.g. UPTIME_CHECKER_API_KEY) and pass it as a Bearer token in the `Authorization` header of your HTTP requests.

// Fetch all monitored services
const myKey = process.env.UPTIME_CHECKER_API_KEY;

async function getServices() {
  const response = await fetch("https://www.uptimechecker.app/api/v1/services", {
    headers: {
      "Authorization": `Bearer ${myKey}`
    }
  });

  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
}

getServices();

Automation (CI/CD)

Professional developers don't add services manually. By integrating UptimeChecker into your CI/CD pipeline, you can ensure every new deployment is automatically monitored the second it goes live.

my-project/
├── app/
├── scripts/
│   └── register-uptime.js
├── .env
└── package.json

UPTIME_CHECKER_API_KEY
=uc_live_...

scripts/
└── register-uptime.js

"scripts": {
  "build": "next build &&
  node scripts/register-uptime.js"
}

The Automation Script (Vercel)

// scripts/register-uptime.js
const myKey = process.env.UPTIME_CHECKER_API_KEY;

async function register() {
  const response = await fetch("https://www.uptimechecker.app/api/v1/services", {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "Authorization": `Bearer ${myKey}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      name: "My Vercel App",
      platform: "render",
      url: `https://${process.env.VERCEL_URL}`,
      interval_days: 5
    })
  });

  const data = await response.json();

  if (response.ok) {
    console.log("✅ Successfully registered with UptimeChecker!");
  } else {
    console.error("❌ Registration failed:", data.error || data);
  }
}

register();

GitHub Actions Example

For GitHub Actions, you can use a simple curl command in your workflow YAML file.

- name: Register with UptimeChecker
  run: |
    curl -X POST "https://www.uptimechecker.app/api/v1/services" \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.UPTIME_CHECKER_API_KEY }}" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{ "name": "Prod Backend", "platform": "render", "url": "https://api.myapp.com", "interval_days": 1 }'

Billing & Plans

Start for free and upgrade as your infrastructure needs grow. Manage your subscription seamlessly.

Frequently Asked Questions