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Uptime monitoring

# Uptime monitoring that catches downtime before customers do

Checked from multiple global locations, with up to 4 retries and exponential backoff before any alert fires. Choose a check interval from 30 seconds to 24 hours, depending on your plan.

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### A rolling SLA you can actually report

WebPixie tracks uptime over time and rolls it into an SLA figure, with the incident count and response trend behind it, so you have a number to share instead of a guess.

The SLA is calculated on an industry-standard basis that excludes periods when monitoring was paused, so the figure reflects real availability.

### Checked from multiple global locations

Every interval runs from each location, so a slow or unreachable region surfaces on its own instead of hiding behind a healthy one.

### Each check validates more than a 200

Set the HTTP method, headers, expected status code, a body keyword, and authentication, so a check confirms the page is actually working, not just reachable.

### Four retries before we wake you

A network failure has to survive four backoff retries before an incident opens, so a momentary flicker on one route does not page you at 3am.

## How WebPixie watches your uptime

WebPixie runs uptime checks from multiple global locations on a schedule and alerts you when a check confirms a failure. There is no agent to install, no DNS changes, and no server access needed. Every check verifies the HTTP response code, response time, SSL validity, and any custom keyword you configure. Over time you get uptime statistics, SLA reports that exclude unmonitored periods, and 30-day trends, so you can measure reliability and track mean time to recovery.

Network-related failures, like timeouts or connection errors, get up to 4 retries with exponential backoff before WebPixie opens an incident, so a momentary flicker on one route does not wake you at 3am. When a failure is confirmed, alerts route through email, Slack, or webhook depending on your plan.

The checks run from multiple global locations, including London, Istanbul, and New York. A problem in one region does not blind the others, which keep checking that your site is reachable.

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### Stop refreshing the homepage to check if it is working

Automated checks tell you what manual refreshing cannot

Most downtime starts predictably: a deploy goes wrong, a memory leak builds, a DNS record changes. WebPixie lets you set a check interval from 30 seconds to 24 hours depending on your plan, so high-priority monitors run often and low-priority ones run sparingly. When a check fails, an alert routes to your preferred channel.

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### Receive smart alerts, not 3am false alarms

Retry logic with exponential backoff before any alert fires

A network-related failure, like a timeout or connection error, retries up to 4 times with exponential backoff before WebPixie opens an incident, so a momentary flicker does not wake you. Alerts route through email on every plan, Slack on Starter and above, and webhooks on Pro and above.

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### Check from multiple global locations

A regional outage hits one path, not the others

A site can look fine from one location while being unreachable from another. WebPixie checks from multiple global locations, such as London, Istanbul, and New York, so a regional reachability problem surfaces instead of staying hidden. Enterprise can add more locations as needed.

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### What uptime monitoring checks, and what it does not

HTTP availability vs the rest of the WebPixie suite

Uptime monitoring checks HTTP and HTTPS reachability using the HTTP method, headers, expected status code, and authentication you configure, plus response times and a body keyword that confirms the page is functioning correctly, not just returning a 200. An expired SSL certificate or lapsed domain will make the HTTPS check fail, so uptime sees it once the site is already down. What it cannot do is warn you ahead of expiry, or surface a changed DNS record or a broken link on a deeper page before it causes an outage. Those have their own monitors that catch the cause early, and all 5 monitor types are included on every plan.

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## Everything you need to monitor a website. In one workspace.

A quick look at other WebPixie features.

Uptime

Catch downtime first with multi-region and keyword checks.

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[Domain](/features/domain-monitoring.md) Never be caught off guard by a domain renewal or transfer. Learn more

[DNS](/features/dns-monitoring.md) Spot unexpected DNS and DNSSEC changes with daily checks. Learn more

[SSL](/features/ssl-monitoring.md) Get warned 15 days before certificates expire, with daily SSL checks. Learn more

[Certificates](/features/certificates-manager.md) See every certificate and its expiry in one place. Learn more

[Link Crawler](/features/link-crawler.md) Find broken links before your visitors do. Learn more

[Main Page Analyzer](/features/main-page-analyzer.md) Find what slows down or breaks your homepage. Learn more

[Indexability](/features/indexability-checker.md) Check whether search and AI engines can access your content. Learn more

[Incidents](/features/incident-management.md) Track failures from detection to resolution in one place. Learn more

[API](/features/api-integration.md) Automate monitoring with the GraphQL and REST API. Learn more

[Workspaces](/features/workspace-management.md) Organize monitoring and bring your team into one workspace. Learn more

## Why teams choose WebPixie for uptime

### Up to four retries before we wake you

Exponential backoff between retries means a flaky CDN edge or a routing flicker will not open an incident.

### Multiple locations, independent network paths

Checks run from multiple independent locations, such as London, Istanbul, and New York, so a regional outage hits one path, not the others.

### Check intervals from 30 seconds to 24 hours

Pick the interval each monitor needs, from 30 seconds to 24 hours, with the fastest intervals available on higher plans.

### Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about uptime monitoring.

### What is website monitoring?

Website monitoring is the practice of automatically checking whether a website is reachable, responding well, and returning expected results. Monitoring services like WebPixie check your site from multiple global locations, verify HTTP response codes, check SSL certificate validity, watch for DNS record changes, and crawl your pages in depth. When something goes wrong, the service sends alerts through your chosen channel so you can respond without waiting for a user report.

There are several types of website monitoring, each catching a different class of issue:

-   [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md): Is the site or service reachable?
-   [SSL monitoring](/features/ssl-monitoring.md): Is the certificate valid and not about to expire?
-   [DNS monitoring](/features/dns-monitoring.md): Are there configuration problems?
-   [Domain monitoring](/features/domain-monitoring.md): Is the registration about to lapse?
-   [Link Crawler](/features/link-crawler.md): Are internal and external links accessible?

Most teams need all of them. That's exactly why WebPixie brings them together on a single platform.

### How quickly will I be notified of issues?

WebPixie sends alerts within seconds of detecting an issue. The exact time-to-alert depends on your check interval. On the Pro plan with 60-second checks, you know about an outage within 60 to 90 seconds of it starting. On Enterprise with 30-second checks, within 30 to 60 seconds. On the free plan with 15-minute checks, the worst-case detection window is 15 minutes.

To prevent false-positive noise, WebPixie retries failures caused by network problems such as timeouts or connection errors up to 4 times with exponential backoff before opening an incident. This helps confirm a real outage versus a flaky network, so you don't get woken at 3am for a routing flicker in one region.

[Alerts](/features/incident-management.md) route through email (every plan), Slack (Starter and above), and webhooks (Pro and above). Webhooks integrate with PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or any incident management tool you already use. For SMS or voice escalation, route the webhook through a service like PagerDuty.

### What monitoring intervals are available?

Monitoring intervals are plan-based, with current minimums set as: Free (15 minutes), Starter (5 minutes), Pro (1 minute), Enterprise (30 seconds). You can also configure longer intervals up to 24 hours for lower-priority monitors, so a critical API health endpoint can run more often than a low-risk marketing page. In [uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md), the interval affects how quickly WebPixie can detect a failure before retry logic confirms the issue and opens an incident. Faster intervals are useful for customer-facing applications, checkout flows, authentication services, and status endpoints where even short downtime matters. Slower intervals may be enough for informational pages or non-critical internal tools. Check intervals, uptime check limits, and monitoring locations vary by tier, so compare the details on the [pricing page](/pricing.md). Confirmed failures can then flow into [incident management](/features/incident-management.md) and your configured notification channels.

### How do you determine if a site is down?

WebPixie marks a site as down when an uptime check fails the response rules configured for that monitor. A failure can come from a timeout, connection error, unexpected HTTP status code, missing body keyword, or another expected condition that does not match. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) supports custom HTTP methods, headers, expected status codes, authentication, and keyword validation, so “down” can mean more than a simple 500 error. For network-related failures such as timeouts or connection errors, WebPixie retries the failed check up to 4 times with exponential backoff before opening an incident, which reduces false positives. Failures from deterministic conditions, such as an unexpected status code or a missing keyword, are confirmed without extra retries. If the issue is confirmed, WebPixie creates or updates an [incident](/features/incident-management.md) and sends notifications through the channels available on your plan. Check intervals and location limits are plan-based, and you can compare them on the [pricing page](/pricing.md).

### What monitoring locations do you use?

WebPixie runs uptime checks from multiple monitoring locations, including London, Istanbul, and New York. These locations help verify whether your website is reachable from more than one network path, which is useful when a problem affects only a specific region, provider, or route. Each [uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) check can validate response status, response time, expected content, and other configured conditions before an incident is created. The number of monitoring locations you can use depends on your plan, so compare location limits on the [pricing page](/pricing.md). Multi-location checks are especially useful for customer-facing sites, agencies managing client domains, and teams that need clearer evidence before escalating an outage. For Enterprise location requirements, [contact us](/contact.md) to discuss coverage.

### How is uptime percentage (SLA) calculated?

WebPixie calculates uptime as the share of monitored time your site responded successfully, using the industry-standard method that excludes periods when monitoring was not active. The basic formula is successful (up) time divided by total monitored time, multiplied by 100 (Uptime % = Up time ÷ Total monitored time × 100). [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) checks your site at your plan's interval from multiple monitoring locations, such as London, Istanbul, and New York, and records each check as up or down. Time before a monitor was created, or while it was paused, is left out of the total rather than counted as downtime, so the percentage reflects only what WebPixie actually observed. A single failed check does not immediately reduce your score either, because network-related failures such as timeouts or connection errors are retried up to 4 times with exponential backoff before the time is counted as down, which keeps a brief routing flicker from distorting the figure. The resulting percentage is what you compare against an SLA target, where the allowed downtime is the error budget the target permits. To translate a target like 99.9% into plain minutes for a day, week, month, or year, use the free [uptime calculator](/free-tools/uptime-calculator.md). Check intervals and data retention depend on your plan, which you can compare on the [pricing page](/pricing.md).

### Can I monitor websites behind authentication?

Yes, WebPixie can monitor authenticated websites and endpoints when you provide the required access details in the monitor settings. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) supports authentication, custom HTTP methods, custom headers, expected status codes, and body keyword validation, so you can check private dashboards, staging pages, API health endpoints, or password-protected URLs. For HTTP Basic Authentication, you can configure the username and password needed for the request. For token-based access, you can use custom headers when the endpoint accepts a static header value. WebPixie then evaluates the authenticated response using the same down-detection and retry logic used for public pages, and confirmed failures can open an [incident](/features/incident-management.md). Use least-privilege credentials created only for monitoring, and [contact support](/contact.md) if your authentication flow requires something more complex.

### Can I monitor multiple services and endpoints?

Yes, WebPixie can monitor multiple websites, APIs, services, and HTTP endpoints across your infrastructure. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) supports HTTP and HTTPS checks with custom methods, headers, expected status codes, authentication, and body keyword validation, so each endpoint can have rules that match its purpose. You can monitor production sites, status endpoints, landing pages, API health routes, staging URLs, and other reachable services in the same workspace. Capacity is plan-based: site limits are Free (3 sites), Starter (10 sites), Pro (50 sites), Enterprise (unlimited), and uptime check limits are Free (5), Starter (20), Pro (50), Enterprise (unlimited). Use [workspace management](/features/workspace-management.md) to organize services by team, environment, client, or product area, and configure notifications per resource. You can compare all limits on the [pricing page](/pricing.md).

### What types of websites can I monitor?

You can monitor any publicly accessible website or service, including corporate sites, e-commerce stores, blogs, web applications, marketing landing pages, status pages, and API endpoints. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) works over HTTP and HTTPS and supports custom ports, custom request methods and headers, expected status codes, and body keyword checks, so each target can have rules that match what it actually serves. Sites that sit behind HTTP Basic auth or a static header token can be monitored too, as long as you supply those access details. Beyond availability, the same domain can also be watched for SSL, DNS, domain expiry, and link health in one workspace. How many sites and uptime checks you can run depends on your plan, which you can compare on the [pricing page](/pricing.md).

### How does uptime affect SEO?

Uptime affects SEO by keeping your pages reachable for search engine crawlers and real users. A brief outage may not cause an immediate ranking change, but repeated downtime can interrupt crawling, reduce trust in page availability, waste crawl opportunities, and create poor user signals when visitors land on errors. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) helps you detect access problems quickly, including timeouts, unexpected status codes, and missing expected content. For marketers, this matters most on high-value pages such as campaign landing pages, product pages, checkout flows, and content that receives frequent organic traffic. WebPixie pairs uptime checks with retry logic to reduce false positives before alerting your team. For search visibility, combine uptime checks with the [Indexability Checker](/features/indexability-checker.md) and [Link Crawler](/features/link-crawler.md) to catch blocked pages, broken links, and crawlability issues.

### Can I monitor campaign landing pages?

Yes, you can monitor campaign landing pages and find out fast when one is broken, slow, or incorrect. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) can check each landing page for reachability, response time, expected status code, redirects, and body keywords such as a campaign headline or form text. This helps catch issues like expired pages, failed deployments, broken tracking redirects, server errors, and missing conversion elements while campaigns are active. You can configure alerts through the notification channels available on your plan, so marketing, growth, or DevOps teams can respond before budget is wasted. For page-quality issues beyond availability, the [Main Page Analyzer](/features/main-page-analyzer.md) can surface caching, header, redirect, canonical, and meta problems that may affect conversion or search visibility. Use the [Link Crawler](/features/link-crawler.md) to find broken links connected to campaign pages.

### Can I monitor staging and development environments?

Yes, WebPixie can monitor staging, development, preview, and production environments when they are reachable by WebPixie checks. Public staging URLs can be monitored with standard [uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md), including expected status codes, response time checks, body keyword validation, and custom request settings. Password-protected or token-protected environments can also be checked when you configure supported authentication details, such as Basic auth credentials or static custom headers. Teams often organize staging, development, and production monitors in separate workspaces or resource groups so permissions and alerts stay clear. [Workspace management](/features/workspace-management.md) helps control who can create monitors, view reports, or change settings, and plan limits can be compared on the [pricing page](/pricing.md).

### Can I see how fast my landing pages load?

Yes, WebPixie shows response time data for landing pages during uptime checks. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) measures how long each monitored page takes to respond from the selected monitoring locations, so you can spot slowdowns, timeouts, and regional access problems while campaigns are running. This is especially useful for ad landing pages, checkout entry points, lead forms, and campaign pages where slow server response can reduce conversions. WebPixie can also validate expected status codes and body keywords, helping confirm that the page is both reachable and serving the right campaign content. The [Main Page Analyzer](/features/main-page-analyzer.md) adds technical context by checking response time, protocol behavior, redirect chains, cache headers, cookies, and other header-related issues. For broken or slow linked destinations, combine this with the [Link Crawler](/features/link-crawler.md).

### How do outage alerts help reduce SEO risk?

WebPixie alerts you when a monitored page becomes unreachable or fails the conditions you configured. No monitoring tool can guarantee that a search engine has not attempted to crawl during an outage, but fast detection helps reduce the duration and SEO risk of availability problems. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) checks for timeouts, connection failures, unexpected status codes, redirects, and missing expected content, then uses retry logic to reduce false positives before opening an incident. Alerts are sent by email on every plan, with Slack and webhooks available on eligible plans, so the right team can act quickly. Confirmed outages can be tracked through [incident management](/features/incident-management.md), including severity, affected resource, and resolution timing. For search-specific risk, combine outage alerts with the [Indexability Checker](/features/indexability-checker.md) to catch crawl-blocking configuration problems.

### Why is website monitoring important for my business?

Website monitoring is important because it gives you fast visibility into availability, security, and domain problems that can affect customers. If your site is down, slow to respond, serving errors, or failing expected content checks, visitors may leave before they buy, submit a form, or trust your business. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) helps catch outages and response problems early, while SSL and domain expiry checks give lead time before renewal deadlines. DNS checks show record changes with old and new values, so you can review misconfigured records without waiting for a customer complaint. For business owners, [SSL monitoring](/features/ssl-monitoring.md) and [domain monitoring](/features/domain-monitoring.md) are especially important because certificate and domain expirations are predictable problems with clear renewal dates.

### How much does downtime cost my business?

Downtime cost depends on your traffic, revenue model, lead value, and how long customers cannot complete key actions. For an ecommerce site, the cost may be lost orders and abandoned carts; for a service business, it may be missed forms, phone calls, bookings, or paid campaign traffic. A practical estimate is to combine expected revenue or lead value per minute with support time, ad spend waste, and recovery work. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) helps reduce that exposure by checking your site on a recurring schedule and alerting when configured response rules fail. Confirmed outages can open incidents through [incident management](/features/incident-management.md), so your team can track impact and resolution. Monitoring interval and notification options vary by plan, so review the [pricing page](/pricing.md) when estimating coverage needs.

### What happens if my website goes down at night or on the weekend?

If your website goes down at night or on the weekend, WebPixie can still detect the outage and send alerts. [Uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) runs on the interval available for your plan and checks your configured response rules, such as status code, timeout, authentication, headers, or body keyword expectations. To reduce false positives from network-related problems such as timeouts or connection errors, WebPixie retries the failed check up to 4 times with exponential backoff before treating the issue as confirmed. When the failure is confirmed, WebPixie can open or update an incident through [incident management](/features/incident-management.md) and notify the channels available on your plan, such as email, Slack, or webhook. This helps the right person respond even outside office hours. Check intervals, locations, and notification options vary by plan, so compare coverage on the [pricing page](/pricing.md).

### What happens if I exceed my plan's monitor limit?

When you reach your plan’s monitor limit, WebPixie prevents creating additional monitors until you upgrade or free capacity. Existing monitors continue working according to your current subscription, but the dashboard will not let you add another monitor beyond the plan allowance. To add more checks, upgrade to a plan with higher site or monitor limits, or remove an existing monitor you no longer need. You can compare included site, uptime monitor, link crawl, user, retention, and report limits on the [pricing page](/pricing.md). If you need more frequent recurring checks, a higher plan may also reduce the minimum interval available for [uptime monitoring](/features/uptime-monitoring.md). For account-specific limit questions or Enterprise capacity, [contact support](/contact.md).

### How does WebPixie avoid false-positive alerts?

WebPixie confirms a failure before it alerts you. When an [uptime](/features/uptime-monitoring.md) check hits a network-related failure such as a timeout or a connection error, WebPixie retries it up to four times with exponential backoff, so a brief blip does not open an incident. Failures that are not network-related, like an unexpected status code, open an incident without retrying, because they reflect a real response from the server. You also control what counts as up: an accepted status-code list, keyword checks for content that must or must not appear, and a configurable request timeout all shape the verdict. When a failure is confirmed, it flows into [incident management](/features/incident-management.md) with a severity and a type, and resolves automatically when checks recover. This keeps alert noise down without hiding genuine outages, and per-plan check intervals are on the [pricing page](/pricing.md).

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