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New IPs For Monitoring (Have a Firewall? Make Sure You Whitelist Them..)

In addition to the IPs being currently used, we’ll be starting to use (effective by 2015-10-12) a set of new IPs parallel to the new machines to be joined to the system. Here they are: IP Block: 69.162.124.224/28 Or, the IPs that will be used: 69.162.124.226 – engine5.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.227 – engine6.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.228 – engine7.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.229 – engine8.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.230 – engine9.uptimerobot.com 69.162.124.231 – […]

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POST Support For Web-Hook Alert Contacts – Now Available

For any user willing to customize the notifications or integrate them into their own apps (or 3rd party apps), web-hook alert contacts is one of the best options. Yet, it was only supporting GET requests and POST support was frequently requested. And, here it comes. It is now possible to receive the web-hook requests as POST […]

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New Features for the API

We have added few new features to the API which may look tiny, yet, can be handy for anyone integrating with the API. Here they are Search This (search) is a new parameter for the getMonitors method for filtering the responses with a given keyword (that will be searched in the monitorURL and monitorFriendlyName). Getting […]

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Integration with StatusCast for Status Pages

We are planning to add “public status pages” as a built-in feature to Uptime Robot. Yet, there are services which are specialized in this area, offering advanced features and already work with Uptime Robot. We’re happy to announce the completion of our integration with one of them: StatusCast. This will allow Uptime Robot customers to create their […]

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New Feature – Advanced Notification Options (for the Pro Plan)

Uptime Robot offers many ways to get notifications: e-mail, SMS, push messages, web-hooks, 3rd party integrations and more.. And, it delivers a “down message” once a monitor is down and an “up message” once it is back up. The advanced notification options For the Pro Plan, it is now possible to: get a “down notification” only […]

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New Feature “Resetting Stats of a Monitor”

The past stats and events related to a monitor is pretty important to analyze its performance within time. Uptime Robot keeps events back to: 2 months for Free Plan 1 year for Pro Plan and response times back to: 24 hours for Free Plan 1 year for Pro Plan However, there can be times where a monitor may […]

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Introducing “Uptime Robot Pro” (for 1-minute checks and/or more monitors)

Uptime Robot, a project that have started out of curiosity 5+ years ago, has now grown so much. Since the last year, we are a full-time team working on it, providing fast support and trying very hard to keep the service simple, solid and modern. In order to guarantee its future and keep offering a […]

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HipChat and Slack Integrations – Yay!

Chat rooms were widely used in the early days of the internet, instant messengers replaced them afterwards and they are getting popular again with a much focused use: team communication. It is really handy to have all the members of a team talk to each other at the same place and have all that info saved (for searching later on). […]

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New Alert Contact Type – Pushover (Push For Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox, Safari & Mac OS X Desktop)

Many Uptime Robot users were asking for an integration with the “push notifications service” Pushover and here it is. Pushover is a paid app which has support for notifications through Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox, Safari & Mac OS X Desktop. It has very nice features like defining “quiet hours, delivery groups” and more. The addition is very simple just […]

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Performance Issues & Any False-Positives You May Have Received

Uptime Robot has been a very stable service for a long time. Yet, for the last few weeks, we know that some users have received false-positives. Why did that happen? In short, the servers we used couldn’t handle the load :). In detail, we always look for ways to heavily optimize the system and the engine […]