Uptime monitoring that tells you a site is down before your customers do

Uptime monitoring is the practice of continuously checking that a website, API, or service is online and responding correctly. A monitoring tool sends requests on a schedule and alerts you the moment a check fails — so you find out about downtime before your customers do.

Uptura sends a request to each URL or endpoint you add, on a schedule (as often as every 5 minutes during beta), and checks the response. You can require a specific status code or assert that the response contains a keyword, so a 200 that quietly serves an error page still counts as down. If a check fails, it's re-verified across consecutive checks to rule out a network blip, and then you're alerted — with the failing check and a recovery notification when it comes back.

99.9% uptime — often called 'three nines' — is a common target and allows roughly 43 minutes of downtime a month. Higher tiers like 99.99% ('four nines') allow only about 4 minutes. Uptura tracks your uptime percentage over time so you can hold yourself, or a vendor, to a specific SLA.

Checking every one to five minutes is the sweet spot for most business-critical sites — frequent enough to catch outages fast without generating noise. Uptura lets you tune the interval per monitor (as often as every 5 minutes during beta), so a marketing page and a checkout API can be watched at different cadences.

Yes. Uptura offers uptime monitoring free during our public beta — no credit card required. Create an account, add your sites, and Uptura checks them on a schedule and alerts you the moment one goes down, all from one dashboard.

Uptime monitoring confirms a page or endpoint responds. Synthetic monitoring goes a step further and replays a whole user journey — like login or checkout — to confirm it actually works. They complement each other, and Uptura offers both from the same dashboard.