Website Monitoring

Uptime monitoring tips, best practices, and tool comparisons

51 articles

Website Monitoring

May 22, 2026•6 min read

Most 'Real-Time' Uptime Monitors Refresh Every 30 Seconds. Here's What Actually Live Looks Like.

Pingdom, UptimeRobot, Better Stack, Checkly, Hyperping, StatusCake — every 'real-time' dashboard is just a polled API on a 30–60s refresh timer. There's another way.

Website Monitoring

March 12, 2026•5 min read

How to Check If a Website or API Is Down Right Now

Is a website actually down or is it just you? Learn how to check website and API status, diagnose outages, and set up alerts so you know before your users do.

Website Monitoring

March 12, 2026•6 min read

How to Check an SSL Certificate: The Complete Guide

Learn how to check any website's SSL certificate for expiration, issuer, TLS version, and security issues. Free methods and tools included.

Website Monitoring

March 12, 2026•6 min read

Online Ping Test: How to Measure Latency, Jitter, and Packet Loss

Run a free online ping test to measure latency, jitter, and packet loss to any server. Understand what the results mean and when to worry.

Website Monitoring

March 11, 2026•7 min read

SSL Certificate Errors Explained: What They Mean and How to Fix Them

Understand every SSL certificate error your browser can throw. Learn what causes each error, how to diagnose it, and how to fix it fast.

Website Monitoring

March 10, 2026•5 min read

Free ICMP Ping Monitoring: The Complete Guide for 2026

Learn how to monitor servers, routers, and network devices with free ICMP ping checks. Covers setup, best practices, and why ping monitoring matters for infrastructure uptime.

Website Monitoring

March 10, 2026•5 min read

Free WebSocket Monitoring: How to Monitor WS & WSS Endpoints in 2026

Learn how to monitor WebSocket endpoints for free. Covers WS vs WSS, handshake verification, latency tracking, and why standard HTTP checks miss WebSocket failures.

Website Monitoring

March 10, 2026•6 min read

HTTP Security Headers Explained: A Complete Checklist

Every HTTP security header explained: what it does, why it matters, and how to implement it. Check your site's headers for free with our API status checker.

Website Monitoring

March 10, 2026•4 min read

How to Monitor Chat App & Real-Time Service Uptime with WebSocket Checks

Chat apps and real-time services fail differently than websites. Learn how WebSocket monitoring catches the outages that HTTP checks miss, and how to set it up for free.

Website Monitoring

March 10, 2026•4 min read

How to Monitor Routers, Switches, and Network Devices for Free

Monitor your network infrastructure for free with ICMP ping checks. Learn how to set up alerts for routers, switches, firewalls, and other devices that don't run HTTP.

Website Monitoring

March 9, 2026•6 min read

What Is Network Jitter? How to Test and Fix Connection Instability

Network jitter causes VoIP dropouts, video stutter, and API timeouts. Learn what jitter is, how to measure it, and how to fix unstable connections.

Website Monitoring

February 13, 2026•4 min read

How to Deploy Without Waking Up Your On-Call Team

Every deployment triggers alerts. Here's how to suppress monitoring noise during planned work so your on-call team sleeps through the deploy.

Website Monitoring

February 13, 2026•6 min read

Maintenance Windows for Uptime Monitoring: The Complete Playbook

Immediate, scheduled, and recurring maintenance windows — when to use each, how to set them up, and the mistakes that catch teams off guard.

Website Monitoring

January 15, 2026•7 min read

Freshping Replacement: Free Uptime Monitoring That Stays Simple

Freshping is shutting down. Replace it with a free Freshping alternative: 5 monitors and 5-minute checks, SSL alerts, and webhooks—or go Nano ($9/mo) for 100 monitors and 2-minute checks. Comparison, team setup, and migration steps inside.

Website Monitoring

January 15, 2026•3 min read

Freshping Shutdown: 60-Minute Migration Checklist

Freshping is shutting down. Use this checklist to inventory monitors, rebuild alerts, and validate the new setup in under an hour.

Website Monitoring

December 2, 2025•3 min read

Free Uptime Monitoring for Serverless and Edge Functions

Cold starts, throttles, and vendor quirks burn serverless teams. Here’s the blunt, free uptime monitoring playbook to keep edge functions honest.

Website Monitoring

December 2, 2025•4 min read

How to Monitor Static Sites on Netlify, GitHub Pages, Gatsby, Hugo, and Cloudflare Pages With a Free Uptime Monitor

Static sites still fail. Here’s the pragmatic, free uptime monitor recipe that keeps Jamstack builds honest across Netlify, Gatsby, Hugo, and Cloudflare Pages.

Website Monitoring

December 2, 2025•3 min read

Why Your Free Uptime Monitor Throws False Positives (and How to Fix Them)

If your pager cries wolf, you’ll ignore the real fire. Here’s how to debug false positives in a free uptime monitor—fast, opinionated, and proven.

Website Monitoring

March 3, 2025•7 min read

Free Uptime Monitor vs Paid Suites: ROI Analysis for 2025

Free vs paid uptime monitoring, with real ROI math, a decision framework, and the exact triggers that justify upgrading—so you never overpay.

Website Monitoring

February 27, 2025•5 min read

Free Uptime Monitor with Slack Integration: 2025 Incident Playbook

Wire Exit1.dev's free uptime monitor to Slack and make outages impossible to ignore.

Website Monitoring

February 24, 2025•4 min read

Best Free Uptime Monitor for SaaS Platforms: 2025 Playbook

SaaS uptime benchmarks, alert routing, and onboarding templates to deploy a free uptime monitor without slowing releases.

Website Monitoring

February 21, 2025•2 min read

Multi-Region Performance Tuning with Global Probes

Use exit1.dev's global probes to tune performance for every region. Free monitoring, honest latency insights.

Website Monitoring

February 20, 2025•4 min read

Free Uptime Monitoring with Email Alerts: Inbox Discipline for Real Incidents

Use Exit1.dev’s free uptime monitor with sharp email alerts that cut through the noise.

Website Monitoring

February 20, 2025•2 min read

Incident Postmortem Templates Fueled by exit1.dev Logs

Write faster postmortems using exit1.dev logs, analytics, and alert history. Free tooling, honest timelines.

Website Monitoring

February 19, 2025•2 min read

Turning exit1.dev Logs into Warehouse-Ready Data

Stream exit1.dev monitoring logs into CSV, Excel, or your data warehouse. Zero cost, full control.

Website Monitoring

February 18, 2025•2 min read

GraphQL and API Uptime Guardrails

Keep GraphQL and REST APIs honest with exit1.dev. Validate JSON payloads, auth headers, and performance without paying for enterprise observability.

Website Monitoring

February 17, 2025•3 min read

Agency and MSP Playbook for Free Uptime Monitoring

Run client uptime monitoring affordably. exit1.dev gives agencies and MSPs 5 free monitors with 5-minute checks, or 100 monitors with 2-minute checks on the Nano plan ($9/month).

Website Monitoring

February 17, 2025•5 min read

Free Uptime Monitor Checklist: 15 Features You Can't Skip

Use this free uptime monitor checklist to compare providers before you trust them with your site's reliability.

Website Monitoring

February 15, 2025•4 min read

SOC 2 and ISO Prep with a Free Website Monitor

Use exit1.dev to satisfy SOC 2 and ISO uptime requirements without buying enterprise tooling. Free monitoring, exportable evidence, privacy-first.

Website Monitoring

February 14, 2025•3 min read

Automating PagerDuty and Opsgenie with exit1.dev Webhooks

Wire exit1.dev into PagerDuty and Opsgenie using signed webhooks. Free uptime monitoring, serious on-call automation.

Website Monitoring

February 12, 2025•3 min read

exit1.dev vs UptimeRobot: Migration Checklist

A blunt migration checklist for moving from UptimeRobot to exit1.dev. 5 free monitors with 5-minute checks, or 100 on Nano ($9/mo). Real alerts, zero freemium bait.

Website Monitoring

February 10, 2025•5 min read

Free Uptime Monitoring for E-commerce: Shopify, WooCommerce, and Magento

Keep Shopify and WooCommerce stores online with exit1.dev's website monitor. 5 free monitors with 5-minute checks, SSL protection, and blunt advice on keeping carts alive.

Website Monitoring

February 9, 2025•13 min read

Monitoring Practices 2025: What Pros Do

Pro tips from Hotjar, Better Stack, Robotalp.

Website Monitoring

February 5, 2025•4 min read

Uptrends Alts: Enterprise Free

Free tools with Uptrends features, no cost.

Website Monitoring

February 3, 2025•7 min read

Free SSL Certificate Monitoring: Stop Expirations Before They Hurt

Monitor SSL certificate expiry for free and get alerts in email, Slack, Discord, or webhooks before browsers throw 'Not Secure' warnings.

Website Monitoring

February 1, 2025•5 min read

Is UptimeRobot Free? Plan Limits & the Best Free Alternative (2026)

What UptimeRobot's free plan actually includes — 50 monitors and 5-minute checks — and where it falls short. Plus exit1.dev, a free alternative with 100 monitors and 2-minute checks on Nano ($9/month).

Website Monitoring

January 31, 2025•5 min read

Free SLA Monitoring Tools: Compare The Stack That Keeps You Out Of Penalty Clauses

Side-by-side comparison of free SLA monitoring tools with uptime checks, incident workflows, and reporting templates.

Website Monitoring

January 30, 2025•4 min read

Downtime: Why It Happens, How to Kill It

Common causes, prevention with monitoring.

Website Monitoring

January 28, 2025•4 min read

StatusCake vs Free: Worth the Money?

Compare StatusCake with free. Pay or not?

Website Monitoring

January 24, 2025•4 min read

How to Set Up a Free Uptime Monitor for WordPress in Under 15 Minutes

Step-by-step guide for adding a free uptime monitor to any WordPress site using Exit1.dev plus automation tips.

Website Monitoring

January 22, 2025•3 min read

1-Min vs 5-Min: Why Slow Monitoring Loses

5-min misses outages. 1-min saves.

Website Monitoring

January 18, 2025•10 min read

Building Exit1.dev: How I Made Premium Website Monitoring Free

Tired of paying $50/month for basic HTTP requests? I built premium monitoring for free using modern cloud infrastructure.

Website Monitoring

January 18, 2025•6 min read

Best Pingdom Alternative: Free Unlimited Monitoring (No 1-Site Limit)

Looking for a Pingdom alternative without the 1-site limit and credit card requirement? Exit1.dev offers 5 free monitors with 5-minute checks, or 100 monitors on Nano for $9/month.

Website Monitoring

January 16, 2025•8 min read

What Is Website Monitoring? The Complete Beginner's Guide

A plain-English guide to website monitoring: what it is, why it matters, the metrics that count, the types of checks, and how to start for free in minutes.

Website Monitoring

January 14, 2025•4 min read

Real-Time Alerts: Speed or Bleed Money

Real-time catches issues fast, minimizes loss.

Website Monitoring

January 12, 2025•6 min read

How to Monitor Website Uptime for Free (Complete 2025 Guide)

Step-by-step guide to monitoring website uptime for free. Setup takes 2 minutes with Exit1.dev - 5 free monitors, 5-minute checks, no credit card required.

Website Monitoring

January 10, 2025•5 min read

GDPR Compliant Website Monitor for Free

Get a free website monitor that respects GDPR by default—no cookie popups, no data hoarding, just fast uptime alerts.

Website Monitoring

January 8, 2025•10 min read

Best Free Website & Uptime Monitoring Tools 2025

The complete 2025 guide to free website and uptime monitoring tools. Compare UptimeRobot, Better Stack, Pingdom, StatusCake and more — and see which are genuinely free vs. just bait.

Website Monitoring

January 6, 2025•3 min read

Free Monitoring for Small Biz: Online Without Cost

Protect presence free. Enterprise features, zero price.

Website Monitoring

January 4, 2025•3 min read

Free Monitoring for Devs: CLI, API, No Fluff

Tools for devs: CLI, API, webhooks. Free.

Website Monitoring

January 2, 2025•4 min read

Free Website Monitor with Discord Alerts: Keep Communities Informed

Pipe Exit1.dev uptime alerts into Discord so your community hears the truth first.

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