When accessing your Uptime Reports, you’ll be presented with multiple Uptime Percentage calculations for different periods of time for your Uptime Monitor. In this article, we’ll explain what each of them means and how they are calculated. Overall Uptime This is the simplest one of all; it averages the uptime percentage for all of the […]
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Cachebuster
This feature works when adding (or editing) a Website Uptime Monitor to your account. Our Uptime Monitoring system supports adding ?*cachebuster* at the end of your monitored URL for pages that your server usually caches. This will prevent cached pages from being served to our monitoring servers. Let’s say you wish to monitor the following […]
Daily/Weekly/Monthly Uptime Monitoring Reports for Status Pages
You can configure to receive Uptime Monitoring Reports via email daily, weekly, or monthly for all of the Uptime Monitors included in any of your Status Pages. Pre-requisite: You must have created an Uptime Monitoring Status Page before following this guide. To get started, go to your Status Pages dashboard from the client area menu: […]
Import Uptime Monitors from .CSV
To get started, head on to your Uptime Monitors dashboard from your client area menu. Now, locate the “Import” drop-down button on the upper right corner of the dashboard. Click it and select “From CSV” from its drop-down options. Then, just follow the three easy steps on the modal window that opens up. # CSV […]
Domain Expiration Date Appears Incorrect
In some odd specific scenarios, you may get alerted by our platform that your domain is about to expire, even though your Domain Registrar shows you an expiry date long into the future (i.e., in a year from now). This happens because our system checks your domain’s actual expiration date, as it appears at Internet […]
Error 0: keyword not found
Cause This error can be found in your Location Fail Log for the website uptime monitors that you have configured keyword monitoring for and the specified keyword that you configured our system to look for is not found on the monitored target page. Our system will look for the specified keyword only in the HTML source […]
HTTP Code [403] Error 0: (Xms)
Cause These errors can be encountered in your Location Fail Log for website uptime monitors when the monitored website is answering with a 403 Forbidden response towards our monitoring locations. This HTTP code basically means that the website is denying access for these web requests, so the website is not considered UP/healthy by our monitoring […]
Error 28: Connection timed out after X milliseconds (Xms)
Similar errors Cause These errors can appear in your Location Fail Log when the monitored target fails to respond within the configured timeout time frame. For example: if your website uptime monitor has a configured timeout of 10 seconds, a timeout error happens if your website fails to load within 10 seconds. These errors are […]
Error 7: Failed to connect to <target>: Connection refused
Similar errors Cause You can get this Uptime Monitoring error in your Location Fail Log if the monitored target is refusing to allow our uptime monitoring nodes to connect to it. This can be caused by any number of reasons, among which: Fix We recommend looking on your server or network to see what exactly is it […]
This is how we use our own platform when performing non-impacting planned maintenance on our infrastructure
In the following guide, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to use our platform for your infrastructure management and the few basic steps you can take when performing planned maintenance on your servers. We use our platform ourselves to monitor our non-impacting infrastructure components. The critical infrastructure components should always be monitored from multiple different […]