Create a Website Uptime Monitor

Monitoring your website’s uptime is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and user experience. Follow these steps to create a website uptime monitor:

1. Create a Website Uptime Monitor #

1. Navigate to the UptimeSync dashboard and login with your credentials.
2. Go to the side panel and click the “Uptime Monitors” button. Here you will see all your uptime monitors.
3. Click on the “Create monitor” button in the upper left corner of the page to access the monitor creation page.
4. In the designated fields, enter the Monitor Name and the full URL of the website you want to monitor (e.g., https://example.com).
5. Set the Ping Protocol to either HTTP, Ping, or Port. By default, it’s set to HTTP(s).
6. Set the Notification handlers that you want to be notified through when something happens to your website availability. Choose alert methods (email, SMS, Slack, etc.)
7. Set check frequency. Choose how often you want UptimeSync to check your website. Check interval options range from 1 minute to 1 day.

2. Additional Options #

To open the additional options below, click the Advanced Settings and follow the steps below:

1. Set the Ping Locations. From where do you want UptimeSync to send their bots to check for your website availability?
2. Set the Request Timeout option. The downtime duration threshold before an alert is sent. Increase it if your website loads very slowly so you don’t get false alarms.
3. Enable the Email Reports feature if you want to receive frequent email reports about your monitor’s uptime.
4. Enable the Cache Buster feature if you want to apply a randomized query parameter to the end of the monitored URL to prevent potential cached results.
5. To organize your work, you can create Projects, and from the Project option, you can assign the monitor you are creating to a specific project.

3. Custom Request Settings #

These are advanced features. If you don’t know what these settings are, skip them.

1. You can select the monitor Request Method, GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, or PATCH. the default is Head. Some request methods have the option to Follow redirect responses, the potential redirects will be followed until reaching the destination location (up to 5 maximum redirects).
2. You have the option to set the Basic auth username and Basic auth password to the monitor.
3. you can create multiple Custom Request Headers.

4. Create the monitor #

Double-check all your settings and click “Create” to activate your new uptime monitor.

5. Verify monitor status #

Once created, your new monitor appears in your dashboard and it should function correctly.