UptimeRobot

An expired SSL certificate breaks your site in the most public way possible, and it is completely preventable. If you already run an HTTP monitor in UptimeRobot, your certificate is being watched right now, here's how to turn that into expiry reminders so you renew with weeks to spare. 👉 https://lnkd.in/e3fnckTf #SSL #UptimeMonitoring

Give users one page to check instead of a flood of "is it down?" tickets. Here's how to build a status page in UptimeRobot in under three minutes, free, no credit card. 👉 https://lnkd.in/egzXWGnk #StatusPage #UptimeMonitoring

A cron job that quietly dies looks exactly like one that's working. Same green check, right until the night you need the backup it was supposed to make. HTTP checks only watch things that respond. They can't see a scheduled job that simply stops. Heartbeat monitoring covers that gap. Your job pings UptimeRobot on a schedule, and you get alerted the moment a ping is missed. Backups, queue workers, nightly syncs, anything on a timer. #DevOps #SRE #Cron

Downtime isn't random. We pulled 286.9 million incidents from 15 years of monitoring. Tuesday is the busiest day for outages, not Friday, and weekdays run about 15 percent higher than weekends. Most of that tracks deploys and traffic, so it's predictable. If your on-call rotation is staffed evenly across the week, you're putting people on the wrong shifts. #DevOps #SRE #Monitoring

Most side projects never get monitoring until the first outage hits production. It takes three minutes to fix that. Add your URL. Pick your alert channels. Done! You're getting uptime checks every five minutes. The free plan covers uptime monitoring, SSL checks, and a public status page. Enough to ship with confidence and sleep through the night. Set it up now: https://uptimerobot.com/ #UptimeRobot #IndieHackers #BuildInPublic

Facebook appears to be experiencing issues right now. Our status pages are seeing a massive spike in real-time traffic. Thousands of users checking "Is Facebook Down?" simultaneously. 1,696 active users. Then 3,816. Then 6,519. All within minutes. This is exactly why public status checking exists. When something feels off, people want confirmation fast. If your product depends on third-party services, you need to know when they go down before your users start asking questions. #UptimeRobot #FacebookDown #Monitoring

We've seen fake emails going out under UptimeRobot branding. They are not from us, and our systems are not affected. These emails are not being sent to our users. They are going to random recipients. No user data has been compromised or leaked. Real UptimeRobot emails come from uptimerobot.com and its subdomains (like @mail.uptimerobot.com or @user.uptimerobot.com). If the sender domain is anything else, treat it as fake. Don't reply, click links, or download attachments. Just delete it. If you're unsure whether an email is really from us, contact support@uptimerobot.com. We're reporting the compromised domains and monitoring the situation.

Writing cron expressions from memory is how backups stop running at midnight and start running every minute. One wrong character in the syntax and your scheduled task does something completely different from what you intended. CrontabRobot takes the guesswork out of it. Pick your schedule visually. Daily, weekly, or custom intervals. Get the exact cron expression. Copy and use it. #UptimeRobot #CronJobs #FreeTools

That's what reliable monitoring looks like when it just works. No complexity. No manual checking. Just confidence that your systems are running. #UptimeRobot #Monitoring #Uptime

The only thing worse than downtime at 3am is finding out about it at 9am.