Need uptime alerts for website and API

You can set up uptime alerts for both your website and API using a few different approaches, depending on how simple or robust you want it to be.

Easiest options

1. Managed uptime monitoring tools

Good if you want quick setup and alerting without building anything.

Popular choices:

• UptimeRobot
• Pingdom
• Better Uptime
• StatusCake
• Datadog Synthetics
• New Relic Synthetics

Typical checks:

• Website URL: HTTP/HTTPS check every 1–5 minutes
• API endpoint: HTTP check with expected status code/body
• Optional: keyword checks, latency thresholds, SSL expiry

Alerts:

• Email
• Slack
• SMS
• PagerDuty
• Microsoft Teams
• Webhooks

Recommended setup

For your website and API, I’d suggest:

Website

• Monitor the homepage or a critical landing page
• Alert if:
  • response is not 200
  • response time exceeds a threshold
  • SSL certificate is near expiry

API

• Monitor a health endpoint like:
  • /health
  • /status
  • /ready
• Alert if:
  • status code is not 200
  • response contains error text
  • latency exceeds threshold

If you want a simple DIY setup

You can use:

• Cron + curl
• Prometheus + Blackbox Exporter
• Grafana Cloud
• AWS CloudWatch Synthetics
• Google Cloud Monitoring uptime checks

Example check logic:

• Run every minute
• If curl fails or returns non-200, trigger an alert
• Send alert to Slack/email/webhook

Example uptime check with curl

#!/bin/bash

URL="https://example.com/health"

STATUS=$(curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}" "$URL")

if [ "$STATUS" != "200" ]; then
  echo "ALERT: $URL returned $STATUS"
fi

Best practice

Use at least:

• 2 monitoring locations
• 1–5 minute check intervals
• separate alerts for website and API
• escalation for repeated failures
• a public status page if needed

If you want, I can help you with one of these:

1. Pick the best tool for your stack and budget
2. Write the exact monitoring configuration
3. Set up alerts in Slack/email/PagerDuty
4. Create a self-hosted monitoring solution

If you tell me your hosting provider and where you want alerts sent, I can recommend the fastest setup.