Although this would be fun, we don’t have any time / money to invest in this for now. We already provide fast and robust SMS notifications and the website is mobile friendly for stats viewing and administrative tasks. It might happen in the future but don’t expect it anytime soon. Some of our clients started working on a third party app but no news yet. If there’s one I’ll let you know.

The 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.

Sorry 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.

Indeed 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.

What 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).

This 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

This is not an interesting feature for everyone so we won’t add this to the interface. Though if you need to do it some times, you can alter the URL or string match and set it back, changing this triggers a re-check.

updown.io isn’t suited for this kind of monitoring, the pricing wouldn’t justify the storage costs and all charts and numbers would break. Though we can probably build a small custom tool for this and host it for you if you want. Send some details to support@updown.io if you’re interested.

We already do 2 double checks before notifying, which is enough to eliminate any false positive. If you want to ignore real but small downtimes, you should increase the check period.

10 minutes interval check costs ~0.06€ / month, which is already pretty cheap, even for just the SSL check. It would not be worth it for us to go bellow.

Thanks for the suggestion! this is not really something related though (uptime monitoring) so it would be a whole different product. For that I clearly recommend https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com (which I use)

This integration requires writing some custom PHP code, which means more maintenance, support and crappy UX. It’s just not worth for us. If someone really wants this extension he can write it using our API.

The current values are 10s for connection timeout and 30 seconds for response timeout. I do not plan on allowing to increase those as it’s already pretty high.

That won’t happen, there are plenty of good tools for this already (ex: nixstats) and would be too much work.

Checks are sorted by frequency by default, which is enough to make important checks stand out. If you really want some custom marker, free to add emojis to your check alias ☺

Unfortunately this is much more expensive and super unreliable so we’ll never use it for the main monitoring. Though at some point we may add some side features to try your website in a browser from time to time and let you know if it breaks for some reason but that’ll only be warning notifications (like we do with SSL alerts).
And most importantly it won’t be configurable, as this would require a very complex setup which is not in the updown.io philosophy