General
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Set lower bound % for uptime per project
Let us decide what the lower bound of the uptime % needs to be for the check to be green. No SLA has a 100% uptime guarantee.
13 votesIn the calendar view of the status page, the threshold for each day are:
- orange for < 15m downtime
- red for >= 15 min downtime
I don't plan on making this more customizable on updown which aims to stay simple. But if you need to show a more custom display according to negociated SLA, this is always possible using our API to compute and display the numbers of your choice on a custom page or report.
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prometheus integration
I saw that a Grafana plugin was suggested and I am all for it, but even better might be a Prometheus integration. Prometheus pulls the data in and stores it. Once it's in Prometheus it can be displayed in Grafana pretty easily. I suspect that since there is already an API for updown it's just a matter of making the two systems data connect but that's a bit out of my grasp to do it myself.
12 votesHere is a third-party Prometheus Exporter for updown.io graciously provided by @DazWilkin: https://github.com/DazWilkin/updown-exporter
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SLA/Office time uptime
Filter on SLA/Office times uptimes
11 votesThe problem is that everyone wants different SLAs (monthly uptime, response time, apdex, etc.) So that won’t be integrated in the product. You’ll have to measure your SLAs with the numbers we give.
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Customise (on/off) Default Notification Channels
I would like to set which Slack Alert Channels (but this idea applies to all notification methods) should be default on or default off.
I have a couple of channels I need just for specific high priority notifications. I don't want them accidentally switched on for every updown.io entry that is added
11 votesI don’t really want to add too much complexity here but for the record when creating a new check not all recipients are active by default. updown takes the last created check as an example and copy these values.
This means it’s a little smarter and if you have some recipient always on and some almost always off, you’re likely to get this right by default and might only have to correct one or two which makes it more acceptable.
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Time range/blocks
Nice to be able to monitor on specific time windows
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Add a "Does not contain" option
The content on the site may vary a lot, but it should never include words like "exception" or "error", which is what we want to check for.
9 votesSorry but this won’t be added, we consider it to be a bad practice as this would miss most actual errors returned by your servers and drastically reduce monitoring quality (which would then be blamed on us). If you don’t care about the content present, just don’t use this feature and rely on standard HTTP status check.
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More options for content-checking
e.g.
- Support for New-Line-Chars
- RegEx's checking8 votes -
Show QUALYS SSL Labs Grade
Show somewhere on the status page, the SSL Labs grade for the monitored host. It can be get trough the API, like https://api.ssllabs.com/api/v3/analyze?host=updown.io (it could be tested once a day for each host)
8 votesUnfortunately the discussions with Qualys didn't go anywhere. They confirmed I can't use SSL Labls commercially but suggested instead their enterprise software which did not work at all for this, then they stopped replying to any of my emails.
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Display days to expire in listing
Adding a column that shows the days to cert expiration would be so handy. Also, if/when you succeed with the domain expire project, another column showings days til domain expiration again would be useful for me. Possibly these are optional columns for those that want in their display grid?
6 votesI don't want to complexify the UI too much with these added (optional) columns. Both numbers are available in the tooltip on the scheme, there's an orange display when getting near expiration + all emails reminders. Also the sort by status will sort domain expiring sooner first if needed.
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Screenshots
Add screenshots to the reports, so we don't have to setup that with another provider seperatly
5 votesIf you’re talking about screenshot of the page or website, that is not possible because updown does not render the website (by fetching CSS, images, javascript, etc..). We only request the HTTP endpoint and eventually download the body if you specified a string to search on the page (in which case you can see the raw HTTP body in the alerts)
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Custom scheduled check interval
Add please a possibility to create a custom time for trigger a check.
Example: 10am every Friday5 votesThat would not be easy with our pricing model and requires a lot of UX for a feature very few people would use so not worth it IMO. If you really need that, you can use the API to enable the check only during a couple minutes per day: https://updown.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/1969179-how-to-automate-check-enable-disable
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Longer timeout than 2 seconds.
We are sysadmin that use services like this + webhook to wake up sysadmins in the middle of the night if something goes down.
2 second max response is too short. Sometimes a server can become overloaded and be sluggish for a moment, and thats OK, and should not be considered a downtime.
If sysadmins are woken at 3am for a brief period of sluggishness, then they cant perform well the next day fully sleep deprived.
Need longer options. 3,4,5,..10 second ranges
4 votesThis is not the timeout, this 2 sec max select box is about Apdex threshold and performance metrics.
At the time of writing the timeouts are:
- for HTTP and TCP checks: 10sec connection + 30sec response
- for ICMP checks: 4 pings with 5 sec timeout each (if any ping success the check is UP) -
Allow cachebusting URLs
I use updown to check a url that is behind a caching CDN. If the origin server goes offline, real users making requests for new URLs will see errors, but I will not be notified of downtime: the updown check will still succeed since the URL it is checking has been cached.
I'd like the ability to add a random string to a URL each time it is checked, so that requests bust through the cache and check that both the CDN and origin server are online
4 votesIndeed that’s a classic problem but it’s better solved using the standard Cache-Control header to disable caching, and this one can already be set on updown.io using the customize request form (</> icon).
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Add 15 minutes and/or 20 minutes check intervals
I understand the drive to keep the number of options small, but to me there is pretty clearly a "hole" in the available check interval options.
For reference, current interval options are:
15s, 30s, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, 30m, 1hMy "standard" checks for important stuff use a 5 minutes interval.
I'm looking to lower my costs by using a larger interval for some of my less important stuff, but right now my only options are the 10 minutes interval, which is not really going to save me enough money to be worthwhile, and the 30 minutes interval, which would…
4 votesIndeed we don’t want too many options for simplicity but we do support custom intervals per client if needed so I’ve just granted you access to 15m and 20m intervals on your account.
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Different check frequency for time and day
Would be great if we can assign different heartbeat frequencies for different time slots and days.
4 votesThis won’t be integrated in the product, it’s way to much interface and clutter just to hide downtimes. But there’s an API you can use to do this if you want, just put a cron which changes your check frequency or disable them, it’s a single line of curl (per check): https://updown.io/api
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Cookies
It is currently not possible to check websites which place a cookie on initial visit. It would be nice to have an option to enable cookies.
4 votesWhat do you mean by that ? if you want the check to be able to fill out arbitrary form and submit them to authenticate, then store the session cookie and use it to check another page, this is never going to happen in updown.io. If what you mean is being able to send a custom Cookie header with the check request, this is going to be added soon (custom headers).
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Provide an explanation of what "Redirections" is.
Trying out the service and first thing I noticed is "Redirections" is about 50% of the time used. It would be great if you could provide a document or link as to how you are calculating this and what we could do to reduce it.
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Chicago Monitor Location
How about adding a chicago monitor location? Our company is based in Chicago and most of our clients are based here. The response time from LA and Miami are slow.
3 votesResponse time does not impact monitoring, it’s normal to have slower response time from further away locations. But in your case the latency from SF and Miami to Chicago is very small (<10ms) so the performance issue your are seeing is all on your side.
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Open sourced service
When out of beta, you could offer a Unix service client added to the monitoring rack to download and install on the user's server if they want it.
That could result in something like "pay for updown or host a server".3 votes -
Server Monitoring
Copy Monitis and create a server monitoring tool.
Straight from their feature list:
- Native agents for Windows and Linux
- CPU, Memory, Storage and Disk, Network Bandwidth
- Processes and services
- SNMP devices
- TCP protocols: UDP, SIP, IMAP, POP, SMTP, etc.
- WAN links
- Down to 1 minute checks3 votesThat won’t happen, there are plenty of good tools for this already (ex: nixstats) and would be too much work.
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