Features page (uptime monitoring) — Oh Dear

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Facts read from this source

• Trial Report an error

  “10-DAY FREE TRIAL · NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED”

• Model Report an error

  “You pay for the number of sites you monitor, not for which checks you switch on.”

• All plans Report an error

  “Uptime monitoring is included on every plan, along with the rest of the website-health toolkit.”

• Check frequency Report an error

  “Cadence. Every minute by default, settable per site from one to sixty minutes.”

• Failing recheck Report an error

  “A monitor that is currently failing is dispatched every minute regardless of that setting.”

• Locations Report an error

  “33 checker servers across 16 cities on six continents.”

• Verification Report an error

  “A failure at the primary location is re-checked from the alternative before anything is raised. Both have to report down for an incident.”

• Warning state Report an error

  “Primary down plus secondary up is a warning, which is recorded but is not downtime and does not affect your uptime percentage.”

• Down default Report an error

  “What counts as down. By default any response outside 2xx, which makes a 204 a success and a 503 an outage.”

• Redirects Report an error

  “Redirects are followed, up to five by default, and the final response is judged.”

• Timeout Report an error

  “Timeout. Five seconds by default, settable from one to ten.”

• Alert threshold Report an error

  “Two minutes of downtime by default, settable from one to twenty.”

• Content checks Report an error

  “Content checks. A required string, a forbidden string, and JSON response assertions.”

• Http methods Report an error

  “The request. GET, POST, PUT or PATCH, with form or raw JSON payloads and your own request headers”

• History Report an error

  “Uptime percentage over the past 7 days and the past 12 months, plus an all-time figure once a monitor is older than a year.”

• Incident record Report an error

  “Each incident keeps its start, end and duration, and each run keeps the response code and the location that saw it.”

• Notifications Report an error

  “Send the outage to the person who owns the fix.”

• Status page Report an error

  “The same checks can feed a status page that updates itself, on your own domain”

• Status page custom domain Report an error

  “Status page custom domain included”

• Other checks Report an error

  “Uptime, performance, certificates, DNS, broken pages and the rest sit on the same site and the same bill.”

Scores citing this record

• The Agency Developer Checks, locations & failure confirmation
• The Customer Support Lead Checks, locations & failure confirmation
• The Customer Support Lead Status pages & incident communication
• The Customer Support Lead Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability
• The E-Commerce Operations Manager Checks, locations & failure confirmation
• The E-Commerce Operations Manager Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability
• The SaaS Platform Engineer Checks, locations & failure confirmation
• The SaaS Platform Engineer Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability
• The Information Security Officer Checks, locations & failure confirmation
• The Information Security Officer Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability
• The Skeptic Checks, locations & failure confirmation
• The Skeptic Uptime reports, data & the vendor's own reliability