Website Monitoring
Uptime monitoring tips, best practices, and tool comparisons
56 articles
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.
Freshping Replacement: Free Uptime Monitoring That Stays Simple
Freshping is shutting down. Replace it with a free Freshping alternative: 10 monitors and 5-minute checks, SSL alerts, and webhooks—or go Nano ($5/mo) for unlimited monitors and 1-minute checks. Comparison, team setup, and migration steps inside.
How to Monitor Static Sites on Netlify, 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.
Free Uptime Monitor with Slack Integration: 2025 Incident Playbook
Wire Exit1.dev's free uptime monitor to Slack and make outages impossible to ignore.
Multi-Region Performance Tuning with Global Probes
Use exit1.dev's global probes to tune performance for every region. Free monitoring, honest latency insights.
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.
Incident Postmortem Templates Fueled by exit1.dev Logs
Write faster postmortems using exit1.dev logs, analytics, and alert history. Free tooling, honest timelines.
Turning exit1.dev Logs into Warehouse-Ready Data
Stream exit1.dev monitoring logs into CSV, Excel, or your data warehouse. Zero cost, full control.
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.
Monitor Cron Jobs and Workers with HTTP Hooks
Cron jobs fail quietly. exit1.dev watches every worker, queue, and scheduled task with simple HTTP hooks—free and fast.
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.
Monitoring Practices 2025: What Pros Do
Pro tips from Hotjar, Better Stack, Robotalp.
Uptrends Alts: Enterprise Free
Free tools with Uptrends features, no cost.
UptimeRobot Free Plan: Limits, Pricing & 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 unlimited monitors and 1-minute checks on Nano ($5/month).
Downtime: Why It Happens, How to Kill It
Common causes, prevention with monitoring.
StatusCake vs Free: Worth the Money?
Compare StatusCake with free. Pay or not?
1-Min vs 5-Min: Why Slow Monitoring Loses
5-min misses outages. 1-min saves.
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 10 free monitors with 5-minute checks, or unlimited monitors on Nano for $5/month.
Real-Time Alerts: Speed or Bleed Money
Real-time catches issues fast, minimizes loss.
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.
Free Monitoring for Small Biz: Online Without Cost
Protect presence free. Enterprise features, zero price.
Free Monitoring for Devs: CLI, API, No Fluff
Tools for devs: CLI, API, webhooks. Free.
Free Website Monitor with Discord Alerts: Keep Communities Informed
Pipe Exit1.dev uptime alerts into Discord so your community hears the truth first.