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Free Website Monitor with Discord Alerts: Keep Communities Informed

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Morten PradsgaardBy Morten Pradsgaard

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

Free Website Monitor with Discord Integration: Tell Your Community the Truth First

Discord is the town square for your product. If you let rumor threads explain downtime before you do, you’re begging for churn. Exit1.dev’s free website monitor now speaks Discord natively, so you can hit your server with the facts before someone invents a conspiracy theory. Running parallel comms for ops and leadership? Pair this with our Slack incident channel blueprint and email escalation workflow so every audience hears the same story.

Why Discord Wins for Outage Alerts

  • Community expects transparency: Your players, customers, and moderators live in Discord. Meet them there or watch trust evaporate.
  • Channel control: Post critical incidents in a locked #status channel, drip maintenance notes into #announcements, and stop the chaos. For domain-specific scares, mirror the warning from Discord domain monitoring so DNS renewals get the same visibility.
  • Automation playground: Webhook embeds let you flag roles, trigger bot workflows, and format clean status cards without hacking together a bot.

The free plan includes Discord webhooks. No “enterprise tier” bait-and-switch. Use it.

Wire Exit1.dev to Discord Without Drama

  1. Create a Discord webhook
    • In the server settings for #status (or any channel built for truth), open Integrations → Webhooks and click New Webhook.
    • Give it a name that screams authority—“Exit1.dev Monitor” works.
  2. Copy the webhook URL
    • Discord hands you a unique URL tied to that channel. Guard it. Anyone with the link can post as you.
  3. Drop it into Exit1.dev
    • Edit your monitor, open Notifications, choose Discord webhook, and paste.
    • Tick the events worth broadcasting: downtime, recovery, SSL expiry, performance regression. Don’t flood the channel with fluff.
  4. Fire a test
    • Trigger a test alert. If the embed doesn’t land exactly how you want, tweak now instead of during a live incident.

That’s the whole integration. No bots, no extra hosting, no excuses.

Steal This Discord Embed Format

{
  "username": "Exit1.dev Monitor",
  "embeds": [
    {
      "title": "🚨 Website Down",
      "description": "`app.exit1.dev` is failing health checks.",
      "color": 15158332,
      "fields": [
        { "name": "Error Rate", "value": "72%" },
        { "name": "Regions", "value": "US-East, EU-West, APAC" }
      ],
      "footer": { "text": "Detected 2025-01-14 10:07 UTC" }
    }
  ]
}

Make it your own—change colors, drop runbook links, mention roles like @moderators when humans need to jump in. The alert should answer “what, where, now what?” in one hit.

Keep Discord Alert Hygiene Tight

  • Lock the status channel: Only the webhook should post. Chatter belongs in threads, not the main feed.
  • Pin recoveries: When you fix the issue, pin the recovery embed or start a summary thread. Don’t leave the last message screaming “DOWN.”
  • Auto-answer repeat questions: Use bots (MEE6, Carl-bot) to respond to “is the site down?” with the status post.
  • Archive incident threads: Keep a read-only archive channel for transparency and postmortems without cluttering live chat.

Go Beyond Outage Blasts

  • Maintenance countdowns: Schedule a post 24 hours before planned downtime so your community isn’t blindsided.
  • Launch updates: Reuse the webhook to ship changelog snippets or deployment successes. Celebrate the wins.
  • VIP segmentation: Send premium members a role-specific ping with deeper technical context or compensation instructions.

When You Outgrow “Free”

Exit1.dev’s free website monitor already brings global checks, SSL tracking, and Discord alerts. Upgrade only if you need:

  • Voice/SMS paging for hardcore on-call rotations.
  • Compliance paperwork that Discord can’t satisfy.
  • Full observability stacks—logs, traces, the heavy artillery.

Until then, keep your money and keep your community informed.

Ship It Today

  1. Sign up for Exit1.dev’s free monitor.
  2. Paste the Discord webhook into your monitor settings.
  3. Test the embed, write the playbook, and tell your server where to look when things break.

Do this now and your community stops guessing. They’ll know you’re on it, and you’ll keep them loyal.

Morten Pradsgaard is the founder of exit1.dev — the free uptime monitor for people who actually ship. He writes no-bullshit guides on monitoring, reliability, and building software that doesn't crumble under pressure.