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Best practices Network monitoring

Best Blockchain Monitoring Practices for 2024

If you’re running a validator node in blockchain networks that use proof-of-stake (PoS) or similar consensus mechanism, even a downtime of just a few minutes can mean a significant loss of earnings.  As a responsible validator, it’s your main responsibility to maintain the highest uptime of your node possible to ensure that: You don’t get […]

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Recent Outage of Meta and Google Ads: How to Prevent Potential Loses

On Tuesday, March 5th, Facebook, Instagram and Google Ads experienced widespread outages that lasted for nearly two hours, affecting thousands of users worldwide. More than 550,000 reports poured in from Facebook users, and Instagram received 92,000 similar complaints, as reported by Reuters. As Meta stated on their newest platform, Threads: ”Earlier today, a technical issue […]

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Network monitoring Port monitoring

Mastering Network Monitoring: Your Guide to Uninterrupted Excellence

What is network monitoring? Network monitoring is the process of systematically watching over a computer network to catch any issues or bottlenecks in real-time, ensuring everything runs as smoothly as possible.  This vigilant system provides immediate insights into the performance of your network. It looks at traffic flow, server status, and application performance, flagging anything […]

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Join the UptimeRobot Community on Discord!

It’s been a few months since our February update, and we’ll be sharing some exciting news with you soon. But this time, we’d love to invite you to join our brand-new Discord Group. Embrace the Power of Community One of the key factors contributing to UptimeRobots’ success is its large and supportive community. UptimeRobot assists […]

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SSL monitoring

Top 10 SSL Monitoring Tools

Reliable SSL monitoring is crucial to every website and online service. Without it, you can lose customers, profits, and even your position in search engine rankings.  But which SSL certificate monitoring is the best?  Why Is SSL Monitoring Important SSL certificate monitoring is necessary to confirm that communication with your website is encrypted and safe. […]

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Status pages

10 Real-World Status Page Examples: And What You Can Learn From Them

A status page is the most effective way to stay in touch with your users and quickly inform them about any outages or ongoing maintenance. A well-designed status page should showcase the status of your services at first glance and show your users if everything is working correctly or if there’s any unavailability. Status pages […]

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Status pages Tutorials

What Is a Status Page and How Can it Benefit Your Business?

A status page is a great way to provide a real-time overview of your services and their uptime. It can also include any planned maintenance or other important updates to your customers.  Better yet, a status page can have a massive impact on your internal processes, save you significant time and money, highlight your credibility, […]

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Announcements

UptimeRobot August 2021 Update: Configurable Timeout, support improvements and Plesk extension

We’ve been busy this summer and introduced two new features last month – longer intervals and a grace period for recurring jobs monitoring (Heartbeat monitors). There is some good news this month too, so let’s get right into it!  Configurable Timeout Are you monitoring your website’s response time? As an important part of advanced monitoring, […]

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UptimeRobot July 2021 Update: Heartbeat monitor and API rate limits

After adding new features in June we worked on fixing some minor bugs and improving the stability of our service.  We’re happy to announce that besides those fixes, we were also able to introduce a major update to our heartbeat (background job) monitoring. It was requested by many, so let’s take a look at the […]

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UptimeRobot June 2021 Update: SSL info in Dashboard, test notification setup and meta robots tag

Last month was filled with news and we’re happy to report that we were able to finish the other three little features! Let’s take a look at them quickly so you can get back to enjoying the summer 🙂 SSL info in Dashboard You can now see the SSL certificate details under each monitor in […]