Uptime Monitoring
Uptime Monitoring is the process of monitoring the availability and performance of websites.
What is Uptime?
Uptime monitoring is a monitoring system that regularly checks whether a website or a specific URL is accessible.
These systems automatically analyze whether the website responds, how quickly it responds, and if it operates as expected.
When a website becomes inaccessible or does not meet expected conditions, the system detects this, creates an incident, and notifies users.
This way, issues can be detected and addressed quickly before they are noticed by users.
Why is Uptime Monitoring Important?
When a URL becomes inaccessible, it is often noticed by users. However, by the time users notice, it is usually too late.
Website outages can lead to:
- loss of customers
- loss of revenue
- damage to brand trust
- decreased SEO performance
For this reason, continuous monitoring of websites is a critical need in modern digital infrastructure.
Uptime monitoring systems regularly check website availability, detect issues early, and alert system administrators as soon as a check detects them.
What Can You Monitor with WebPixie?
With the WebPixie uptime monitoring system, you can perform the following checks:
- URL availability status
- HTTP status codes
- page response times
- presence of specific keywords on the page
- page load timeouts
- accessibility from different geographic locations
These checks allow users to monitor both the operational status and performance of their websites in detail.
How Does WebPixie Add Value?
The WebPixie uptime monitoring system helps users manage their websites proactively.
With WebPixie, users can:
- detect website outages early
- address issues before users are affected
- continuously monitor website performance
- increase system reliability
- improve operational visibility
This enables businesses to manage their websites more reliably, stably, and sustainably.
Monitoring Process with WebPixie
The uptime monitoring process in WebPixie is very straightforward.
The general flow is as follows:
- The user creates an uptime monitor for the website they want to track.
- WebPixie automatically checks the site at specified intervals.
- Checks are performed from different geographic locations.
- Availability, response time, and content checks are analyzed.
- If the site becomes inaccessible, the system automatically creates an incident.
- When the site becomes accessible again, the incident is resolved.
With this process, users can continuously track the status of their websites.
Incident creation isn't always immediate. A configuration issue (wrong status code, keyword mismatch, SSL error) opens an incident on the very first failed check, on every plan.
A network-error failure (timeout, connection issue) is first retried in place — up to 4 attempts with exponential backoff, capped so the retries fit inside the check interval. On paid plans, if it's still failing after those retries, WebPixie also verifies from another monitoring location before opening an incident: if the site is reachable from there, the failure is treated as a false positive and no incident opens (the check is still recorded, but excluded from the uptime percentage); if it also fails there, the incident opens. The Free plan has no cross-location verification, so a confirmed network-error failure opens the incident directly after the in-place retries.
Once an incident is open, WebPixie checks that monitor more frequently than its normal interval to detect recovery sooner — these accelerated checks skip the in-place retry and cross-location verification steps above.
Subdomains
The Subdomains section lists the subdomains detected in relation to the analyzed domain name.
Uptime Overview
All uptime monitors created in WebPixie are managed through the Uptime screen. This screen is the main area where the availability status of all monitored services and websites within the workspace can be viewed and managed.