Monitors Overview

UptimeGuard supports 9 monitor types to cover every aspect of your infrastructure.

Common settings

All monitor types share these settings:

Name — a friendly label for the monitor.
Check Interval — how often the monitor runs (e.g. 30s, 1m, 5m). Minimum interval depends on your plan.
Alert Channels — which channels to notify when the monitor goes down or recovers.
Locations — one or more global regions to run checks from (US East, US West, EU West, EU Central, Asia Pacific, Australia).

HTTP / HTTPS

Check website availability, status codes, and response times.

Ping (ICMP)

Verify host reachability with ICMP pings.

SSL Certificate

Track SSL expiration and get alerts before certificates expire.

DNS

Monitor DNS records and detect unexpected changes.

Port

Check if a specific TCP or UDP port is open and responding.

Keyword

Verify that a page contains (or does not contain) a specific keyword.

Cron / Heartbeat

Ensure scheduled jobs and background tasks run on time.

API Endpoint

Send custom requests and validate JSON responses.

Domain Expiry

Get notified before your domain registration expires.

Status	Description
Up	The monitor check succeeded.
Down	The monitor check failed. An incident may be created.
Paused	The monitor is manually paused and not being checked.
Pending	The monitor was just created and hasn't run yet.