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Add a URL
Point Uptime Basics at the website you care about and choose the plan interval that fits your workload.
Website Monitoring Without the Noise
Know when your website goes down before your customers do.
Uptime Basics monitors your website, confirms outages before alerting, warns when response times get too slow, and gives you a clear record of incidents, recovery, SSL status, and domain expiry without the clutter of enterprise tooling.
Primary site
yourdomain.com
5 min
Check interval
12 sec ago
Last check
SSL
31 days remaining
Alerts
Email and recovery notices
4:12 PM
200 OK
Healthy response received
4:07 PM
148 ms
Latest response time
Multiple checks before alerting
Reduce false alarms before a downtime alert reaches your inbox.
Independent from your host
Monitoring keeps running even when your web host is having a bad day.
Clear incident history
Review what happened, when it started, and how quickly the site recovered.
Slow response alerts
Know when a site is still online but too slow for customers to trust.
SSL and domain visibility
Track certificate expiry and domain renewal risk from the same monitor.
How It Works
A straightforward monitoring workflow.
Create a monitor in a few minutes, let the checks run automatically, and use the dashboard when you need answers instead of digging through logs.
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We monitor it automatically
Checks run on schedule, failures are confirmed, and logs are stored for investigation and trend analysis.
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Get downtime and recovery alerts
When something breaks, you get notified and can review the incident history instead of guessing.
Feature Spotlight
The parts that matter when a website starts failing.
Uptime Basics focuses on the information small teams actually need: reliable checks, useful alerts, clear incident context, and an easy way to communicate status publicly.
Website Monitoring
Monitor HTTP and HTTPS endpoints without extra setup.
Start with a URL and let the platform handle recurring checks, timeout detection, slow response tracking, error responses, and the monitor timeline your team needs when something slows down or stops responding.
- 5-minute checks on Starter and Plus
- 1-minute checks available on Pro
- Optional slow response alerts by threshold
- Detailed logs available when you need to dig deeper
Monitor
Client Storefront
Latest check
165 ms2:43 PM local time
7-day uptime
99.96%Reliable recent history
Incident History
Move from "the site looked down" to a real incident timeline.
When there is a problem, the dashboard shows when the incident opened, how the checks behaved, and what happened before recovery. That gives you something concrete to review with a host, client, or developer.
- Incident pages with grouped activity
- Response time views and reliability summaries
- Logs separated from the main dashboard to keep things clean
Incident timeline
api.example.com
Incident opened
11:03 AM5 failed checks confirmed
Alert queued
11:04 AMEmail notification sent
Incident resolved
11:17 AMHealthy response returned
Alerts
Get notified when a site goes down and when it comes back.
The goal is not just to tell you a site failed. It is to tell you when the incident opened, cut down alert noise, and confirm when service has recovered so you know when to stop watching it.
- Downtime and recovery notifications
- Slow response warnings separate from downtime
- Alert history on the monitor detail page
- Multiple checks before an incident is opened
Alert history
functionallyuseless.com
Slow response warning
10:58 AMSite online but over threshold
Downtime alert
11:04 AMQueued after confirmation
Recovery alert
11:17 AMQueued after healthy check
SSL And Domain Monitoring
See certificate and domain renewal risk before they become outages.
Website availability is not only about HTTP status codes. SSL certificates expire, domains lapse, and both can take a healthy site offline. Uptime Basics keeps those checks tied to the same monitor.
- Optional SSL certificate checks
- Optional domain expiry checks
- Warning thresholds configured per monitor
Renewal watch
marketing.example.com
31 daysSSL certificate remaining
74 daysDomain expiry remaining
14 daysSSL warning threshold
30 daysDomain warning threshold
Public Status Pages
Share a clean public status page when customers need visibility.
Turn on a monitor-backed public status page when you want a simple external view. It uses the same uptime data, can be verified against your domain, and keeps visitors out of the customer dashboard.
- Optional per monitor
- Owner verification supported
- Designed for straightforward public communication
Public status page
status.uptimebasics.com/client-site
Current status
UpVisible without sign-in
Recent history
7 daysRecent checks summarized
Brand trust
ReadyVerification available
Why Uptime Basics
Built for teams that need answers, not another complicated tool.
Some monitoring platforms assume you want a wall of graphs and enterprise workflows before you have even confirmed whether your site is reachable. Uptime Basics focuses on the basics that actually help smaller teams respond faster.
You get checks, incidents, logs, downtime alerts, slow response warnings, SSL visibility, and optional public status pages in one place. The product stays understandable enough for a founder or account manager, while still giving enough detail for troubleshooting.
Made for small businesses and agencies
Useful when you need to monitor your own site or a client portfolio without enterprise overhead.
Independent from your hosting provider
If your host is having issues, your monitoring system is still outside that failure domain.
Clear alerts instead of noisy dashboards
The goal is faster decisions, not more screens to interpret.
Pricing
Simple pricing built around monitor count and check frequency.
Pick a plan based on how many sites you need to watch and how often you want them checked. The Starter plan includes a 30-day trial.
Get the basics covered.
$3.99 / month
- 5 monitors
- 5-minute checks
- Downtime and recovery alerts
- Slow response alerts
- Incident history and monitor logs
- 30-day trial
For growing businesses with more sites.
$7.99 / month
- 10 monitors
- 5-minute checks
- Downtime and recovery alerts
- Slow response alerts
- SSL and domain expiry monitoring
- Optional public status pages
For sites that need faster feedback.
$11.99 / month
- 25 monitors
- 1-minute checks
- Downtime and slow response alerts
- Full monitor detail views and incident logs
- SSL and domain expiry monitoring
- Optional public status pages
30-day free trial available on Starter. Cancel anytime.
F.A.Q.
Common questions before you start monitoring.
The service is designed to be straightforward. These are the questions most people ask first.
What counts as downtime?
A check is treated as failed when the site times out, cannot be reached, or returns an unhealthy response. Incidents are confirmed before alerting to reduce false positives.
Do you monitor SSL certificates and domain expiry?
Yes. SSL and domain expiry checks are optional features on a monitor and can be enabled when you need them.
Can you alert me when my site is slow but not down?
Yes. Slow response alerts are separate from downtime alerts. You can use them to flag performance problems without marking the site as unavailable.
Will this still work if my hosting provider goes down?
Yes. Monitoring runs outside your web host, so host-side outages are still visible from the dashboard and public pages.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Uptime Basics starts with a URL and runs from the hosted monitoring platform.
Can I monitor more than one site?
Yes. Every plan supports multiple monitors, with the total count based on the plan you choose.
What is the difference between the plans?
The main differences are monitor count and check interval. Pro adds 1-minute checks for sites that need faster detection.
Start Monitoring
Get uptime alerts in minutes, not after a customer email.
Start with the 30-day Starter trial, keep the setup simple, and move to faster checks only when your sites actually need them.