Uptime monitoring for websites, APIs, ports, ping, keywords, SSL, DNS and cron heartbeats, with status pages and team alerting.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Free plan
- 50 monitors, 5-min interval
- Open source
- No
- Self-hosted
- No
- Launched
- 2010
- Status
- Active
- Website
- uptimerobot.com
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Uptime and synthetic monitoring checklist
9 of 10 confirmed in UptimeRobot's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Uptime.
- HTTP checks Yes
- Keyword checks Yes
- SSL certificate expiry Yes
- TCP port checks Yes
- Ping checks Yes
- DNS checks Yes
- Multi-location checks Yes
- Checks every minute or faster Yes
- Browser or multi-step checks Not confirmed
- Status page Yes
No scripted browser or multi-step check found
Checked against: uptimerobot.com, uptimerobot.com (2)
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