Everything you can monitor

24 check types, run from regions around the world — the way your users reach you. One platform, one confirmed alert when something actually breaks.

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HTTP/HTTPS Monitoring

Checks that your website, store or app is up and loading fast — and that pages actually return what they should.

Key features

  • Uptime, status codes and response time from multiple regions
  • Content validation — catch “200 OK but broken” pages
  • Custom headers, auth and request methods for APIs
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Heartbeat Monitoring

Your workers and services ping us when they run — you get alerted the moment one goes silent.

Key features

  • One curl line per service — no agent, no SDK
  • Windows from 1 minute to 365 days, with grace
  • Exit codes, run durations and job output on every ping
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Cron Job Monitoring

Know the night a scheduled job doesn't run — real cron expressions, timezones and grace included.

Key features

  • Same 5-field cron line your crontab uses, timezone-aware
  • “Didn't run”, “failed” and “ran too long” alert separately
  • Job output attached to each run for instant diagnosis
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MCP Server Monitoring

Protocol-level checks for Model Context Protocol servers — handshake, tool inventory and rug-pull drift detection.

Key features

  • Real initialize handshake + version negotiation
  • Full tools/list fingerprint on every check
  • Alerts with the exact tool diff on any change
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WebSocket Monitoring

Opens real WebSocket connections to make sure your live features — chat, feeds, dashboards — actually connect.

Key features

  • Full ws:// and wss:// handshake checks
  • Ping/pong liveness with round-trip timing
  • Optional message pattern matching
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TCP Port Monitoring

Makes sure the services behind your site — databases, mail servers, SSH — are reachable and accepting connections.

Key features

  • Any TCP port — databases, mail, SSH, custom services
  • Connect-time tracking and trends over time
  • Multi-region confirmation before an alert fires
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UDP Monitoring

Availability checks for services that talk over UDP, like time servers, DNS or game servers.

Key features

  • NTP, DNS, game and custom UDP services
  • Payload and response validation
  • Verifies real answers — not just a powered-on server
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NTP Monitoring

Checks your time servers stay accurate — offset, jitter and sync status, not just "is it up".

Key features

  • Measures clock offset, jitter and stratum
  • Alerts on drift and lost sync, not just downtime
  • Public pools or your own time servers
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DNS Monitoring

Watches the DNS records that point people to your site, and warns you if they change or stop working.

Key features

  • A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT record checks
  • Instant alerts on unauthorized record changes
  • Resolution failures and slow lookups across regions
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SSL Certificate Monitoring

Keeps an eye on your HTTPS certificates so visitors never see a scary “not secure” warning.

Key features

  • Expiry warnings weeks ahead, on your schedule
  • Full certificate chain and handshake validation
  • Covers every HTTPS endpoint you monitor
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Ping (ICMP) Monitoring

A simple “is it reachable?” check for any server, with response time and packet loss.

Key features

  • Reachability, latency and packet loss for any host
  • Region-by-region comparison — local vs global issues
  • IPv4 and IPv6 checks
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MTR / Network Path Monitoring

Traces the whole network route to your server, step by step, when things get slow.

Key features

  • Hop-by-hop route, latency and loss (ping + traceroute)
  • Pinpoints the exact hop where problems start
  • Made for “slow but not down” investigations
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SMTP Monitoring

Checks that your mail server is up and ready to send and receive.

Key features

  • Mail server availability and connect time
  • Alerts before undelivered mail piles up
  • Works with any SMTP host you rely on
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FTP Monitoring

Connects to your FTP servers so partner uploads and scheduled transfers keep working.

Key features

  • Real sessions: connect, login, directory listing
  • Optional write and throughput tests
  • Stage timings show exactly what's slow
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SFTP Monitoring

Watches the secure (SSH) file servers that move payroll, banking and partner files on deadlines.

Key features

  • Full SSH handshake and login verification
  • Optional listing, write and throughput tests
  • Availability history for audits and SLAs
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Email Deliverability Monitoring

Watches the settings (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) that keep your emails out of spam folders.

Key features

  • SPF, DKIM and DMARC policy validation
  • Alerts when a change risks deliverability
  • Guards against spoofing misconfiguration
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Domain Expiry Monitoring

Tracks when your domain registration runs out.

Key features

  • Expiry tracked from official registry data
  • Warnings weeks before a domain lapses
  • Renewal picked up automatically after you renew
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CDN Monitoring

Confirms your CDN is doing its job and actually speeding up your site.

Key features

  • Verifies your CDN is present and serving
  • Detects traffic silently bypassing the CDN
  • Edge behaviour checked from multiple regions
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Compression Monitoring

Checks your pages are delivered compressed, so they load faster on every device.

Key features

  • Brotli and gzip delivery checks
  • Flags uncompressed pages — an easy speed win
  • Tracks compression health over time
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Core Web Vitals Monitoring

Measures how fast your pages feel to real visitors — the same Core Web Vitals scores Google uses for ranking.

Key features

  • LCP, CLS, INP and Lighthouse scores over time
  • Real browser audits, desktop or mobile profile
  • Screenshot and full report on every run
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Sitemap Monitoring

Checks your sitemap is valid and the pages listed in it still work.

Key features

  • Sitemap validity and structure checks
  • Detects broken URLs listed in your sitemap
  • Catches issues before search engines do
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Favicon Monitoring

Makes sure the little icon in the browser tab is present, loads fast and is served as a real image.

Key features

  • Catches icons lost in deploys and CDN moves
  • Content-type and size validation
  • Checked through your CDN from many regions
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Blacklist Monitoring

Checks whether your domain or mail server has landed on spam blocklists.

Key features

  • Checks major spam blocklists (DNSBL/RBL)
  • Covers your domains and sending IPs
  • Early warning before email starts bouncing
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Keyword / Content Monitoring

Watches a page for text that should be there — or text that shouldn't.

Key features

  • Require text that must be present — or must not be
  • Catches defacement and silent “broken but 200” pages
  • Works on any page you already monitor
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CMS Monitoring

Detects what platform a site runs and alerts when that fingerprint changes without a deploy.

Key features

  • Detects WordPress, Drupal and other platforms
  • Assert an expected platform — mismatch alerts
  • Great for migrations and client portfolios
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Data Breach Monitoring

Watches known data-breach lists for accounts tied to your domain.

Key features

  • Watches known breach feeds for your domain
  • Alerts when tied credentials surface
  • Continuous watching — not a one-off check
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