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New Feature – Read-Only Api-Key

Uptime Robot provided 2 api-key types: a master api_key and monitor-specific api_key. The master api_key can be used to perform almost every action exists in the dashboard and it must not be revealed for the security of the accounts. Yet, there are cases where the api_key may needed to be revealed like using it in […]

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Cachebuster – A Pro Tip for Bypassing Cache

Caching is a great way to improve website performance and minimize the load. An ideal cache displays the cached version until the content changes and flushes the cache when there is a change. Yet, there may be cases where the cached version is not the most up-to-date one (if there is a DB error on […]

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A New IP Block

All the requests sent from Uptime Robot are using pre-defined IPs to make sure that we all know the source of the requests. A new IP block is being added to the system: 216.245.221.80/28 And, if exists, please make sure it is whitelisted in your firewalls. Also, the full list of the IPs used can be found here. P.S.> […]

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A Change in Handling HTTP 401 Statuses

Uptime Robot treats all HTTP statuses equally. They mean either up or down… except HTTP 401. HTTP 401 is expected in some situations and not expected in others. Currently, HTTP 401 is handled as: If auth info is mentioned in monitor’s settings but HTTP 401 is returned, monitor is marked as down if no auth […]

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A Downtime, What Happened and… Very Sorry.

Last Thursday (10 Jan 2019), starting with 02:30, we experienced an issue that caused a full downtime of ~12 hours and intermittent issues more than that afterwards. First of all, so so sorry about this. And, as a summary, it was totally our fault. Uptime Robot is available since Jan 2010 and it is the […]

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New Feature – Google Hangouts Chat Notifications

Uptime Robot is already integrated with the major team communication apps and here is another addition: Google Hangouts Chat. If you already use Hangouts Chat (which is part of the G Suite of Google), the integration can be setup with just these few steps: Inside Hangouts Chat, create a new web-hook URL in Room menu>Configure webhooks>Add new. Inside Uptime Robot, create […]

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Distrusted Symantec Certificates are Added to SSL Monitoring

Google had announced that Chrome would begin distrusting certificates issued by Symantec Corporation’s PKI and the decision is followed by other major browsers. These are the certificates by Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL that are issued before 1st of December 2017. And, as the distrust is in effect and visitors are displayed an error […]

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Introducing “HTTP Method Selection” (HEAD/GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE)

Uptime Robot sends HEAD requests for HTTP monitors and GET request for keyword monitors by default (and, this is a good default setting for most monitors). On the other hand, there are cases when a customization may be needed, like: Checking if a form in the website works as expected Monitoring your APIs which expect specific methods (a […]

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New Feature: Voice Call Notifications

There is never “too much” when it comes to the ways of getting notified about an emergency. And, in some cases, this emergency can be a website or server going down. Today, voice call notification is added to Uptime Robot and it can be very helpful when we want to make sure that a notification is heard :). How to […]

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Need Only the Down or Up Notifications? You are Covered!

Uptime Robot sends notifications for down and up notifications by default for each alert contact type. However, there can be cases where you may only need the down or up notifications like: minimizing the SMS use handling only the up or down events via web-hooks getting only the SSL expiry notifications but ignoring up/down events There […]