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There were 52 questions found in this category:
 Does SiteUptime have an API?
Yes, SiteUptime now offers an API (based on REST) for users with one of our paid accounts. Our API page contains all the information you need to use the API.
- Does SiteUptime offer a webhook feature?
Yes. Visit our Webhook page for more information on using this feature.
- How can I add additional alert email contacts?
This feature is available with our paid plans only. In your control panel, select "My Monitors" and then "Edit" for the monitor you wish to add contacts for. Add additional email addresses in the "Add. email alert(s)" field separated by commas.
- How can I add more monitors to my account?
Additional monitors are $2 per month per monitor. You can order more by clicking the "Add Monitors" link on the left menu of your control panel.
- How can I add SMS alerts to my account?
SMS alerts are available on our paid plans only and there is a .20 fee for each alert sent. Please submit an SMS credit deposit by clicking "Add SMS Credits" link in your account control panel. You can verify that we support your SMS network by sending yourself a test SMS message. Click on "My P ...
- How can I cancel my account?
To cancel your account please send an e-mail to support@siteuptime.com with your request. Please be sure to email from the log-in email address for your account.
- How can I display my uptime reports publicly?
The link for your public reports page is listed in your control panel, under "My Reports" --> "Summary". Each monitor will have a unique public statistics page. You may also show a monitor status page which displays the current uptime status for all your monitors on a single page if you have a p ...
- How can I downgrade to the free plan?
Please log-in to your account and delete the monitors you no longer want to keep. There should be only one left remaining. Then contact support@siteuptime.com with your request. We will cancel any active payment subscriptions and downgrade your account. Please note https monitoring is not curre ...
- How can I exclude your visits from Google analytics or other statistics programs?
You may white list our user agent(s) Siteuptime and Siteuptime.com and this will exclude the visits of our monitoring bots from your analytics program.
- How can I integrate my PagerDuty.com account?
Please log-in to your PagerDuty.com account and go to Configuration -> Services. For each Service set-up in your account there should be an API key listed. The exception would be if you are using email integration for that service. In that case we recommend creating a new service by clicking Add ...
- How can I see response times for each check?
Unfortunately we do not keep records for individual response times when our checks are successful. Rather we just record a daily average. However, for any failed check we do record individual response times and make these available in the monitor reports.
- How do I set-up a DNS monitor?
In your Control Panel, from the service drop down menu choose dns (53). For the host name enter the name of your dns server. For example enter ns1.mywebhost.com where ns1.mywebhost.com is one of the actual name servers your domain is pointed to. Now you should see two additional fields, domain ...
- How do I upgrade my account?
Within your account control panel there will be a link labeled "Upgrade". Click on this link and you will be presented with a payment/upgrade form where you can select the upgrades or options you wish to add to your account and submit a payment.
- How do you define a Service Monitor?
A service monitor is defined as any device or service you set up to be monitored. For example if you want to monitor http on your web site, that counts as 1 monitor. If you have 3 service monitors available, you could monitor 3 services on 1 web site, i.e. http, smtp, pop3 OR you could monitor h ...
- How do you determine if a server or website is "up"?
Our system checks the server response code from your website or server. If there is no response, our system will verify the failure using an alternate monitoring location and send an alert. By default, if your server responds with a code of "200", "301", "302", or "403" your monitor is consider ...
- How does email monitoring work?
Our email monitoring does not send an email or receive a test email from your mail server. With both our SMTP and POP mail server monitoring basically our monitoring server connects to the specified mail server and does a "handshake" greeting. If the mail server responds then we report it as up ...
- How far back do you keep monitoring statistics for my account?
Detailed statistics for each monitor are kept for 2 months for our free plans and for the life of the account for our paid plans.
- I got an alert that my site was down but when I checked it was up?
The most common cause for such an anomaly would be a network type issue. When you check the failure logs you will likely see errors like "cannot connect", "unable to connect", and similar. So we were not even reaching the web server to get a response (like an HTTP error code or similar.) Also th ...
- My failure log shows "Connection Refused", what does this error mean?
This error means that the connection to your web site or server was actively denied. This usually results when a web site or server is protected by a firewall or the server reaches its connections limit and drops or denies the connection from our system.
- My failure log shows "Connection Timed Out", what does this error mean?
This error means that our monitoring system could not reach your web site or server within the time out period. Typically, our system will wait a specified period of time for a response from your web site or server and if no response is received, we will assume the web site or server is down or ...
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