Presenting yet-another uptime monitoring tool -- uptime.gd

SpeedBus · December 2023

Hey all!

Building a multi-location monitoring tool is something that's been at the back of my mind for a while now, while there are so so many of them already in the market with various cool features, I still thought why not build yet-another monitoring tool, so well, here goes,

URL: https://uptime.gd

Signup is free, the service is free too.

Locations:

We're currently monitoring from 3 locations,

Paris, New Jersey and Singapore.

Plan on adding more to the mix with 1 more location from Asia, 2 more in the US (West and Central) and 1 in South America or Africa.

Notes:

The monitoring itself works, multi-location checks for each monitor and downtime detection too works.
The UI is a bit WIP, but works where required too.
There is NO DOWNTIME ALERTING setup/available for now, except within the website itself, "why?" Because I want the service to be solid and not start sending out false alerts on the slightest of increase in monitors/probes, because there's nothing worse than Alert Fatigue. Once I'm sure the service doesn't falter on the alerting/detection logic, I'll enable various Alert Transports like Slack, Telegram, Discord, Webhooks etc for the alerts to get to wherever you like
This is "mixed" personal project, that's completely built and supported by me but that's owned by my work and most likely should remain free under fair-usage (don't add 1000s of monitors please
There is no SLA/guarantee -- uptime.gd might/will(?) break, I've pretty much written this over the course of 3-4 days across the past week. Tested it where I can, things do work, but still, might completely break.

Any constructive feedback is welcome

_MS_ · December 2023

Registered, thanks

aayt · December 2023

Registered, thanks

bikegremlin · December 2023

My 2c:

1)
https://uptime.gd/favicon.ico

2)
Naked domains make baby Jesus cry.

Best of luck with the project.

Brueggus · December 2023

Looks pretty good! Straightforward UI without shenanigans.

I've thrown in a bunch of servers, let's see how it goes.

AuroraZero · December 2023

@bikegremlin said:
My 2c:

1)
https://uptime.gd/favicon.ico

2)
Naked domains make baby Jesus cry.

Best of luck with the project.

Also gives the Yeti the diabeetus

SocksAreComfortable · December 2023

Nice project! Added a few sites.

amj · December 2023

Works well

Superwill1234 · December 2023

@SpeedBus said:
Hey all!

Building a multi-location monitoring tool is something that's been at the back of my mind for a while now, while there are so so many of them already in the market with various cool features, I still thought why not build yet-another monitoring tool, so well, here goes,

URL: https://uptime.gd

Signup is free, the service is free too.

Locations:

We're currently monitoring from 3 locations,

Paris, New Jersey and Singapore.

Plan on adding more to the mix with 1 more location from Asia, 2 more in the US (West and Central) and 1 in South America or Africa.

Notes:

The monitoring itself works, multi-location checks for each monitor and downtime detection too works.

The UI is a bit WIP, but works where required too.

There is NO DOWNTIME ALERTING setup/available for now, except within the website itself, "why?" Because I want the service to be solid and not start sending out false alerts on the slightest of increase in monitors/probes, because there's nothing worse than Alert Fatigue. Once I'm sure the service doesn't falter on the alerting/detection logic, I'll enable various Alert Transports like Slack, Telegram, Discord, Webhooks etc for the alerts to get to wherever you like

This is "mixed" personal project, that's completely built and supported by me but that's owned by my work and most likely should remain free under fair-usage (don't add 1000s of monitors please

There is no SLA/guarantee -- uptime.gd might/will(?) break, I've pretty much written this over the course of 3-4 days across the past week. Tested it where I can, things do work, but still, might completely break.

Any constructive feedback is welcome

I registered and my website requires mtls and a log in. I'm not sure how to add this. 😕 it just shows up. And it seems there's no way to provide these info...

havoc · December 2023

About half the buttons on the site don't work? Can't navigate to what is presumably a simple static page - pricing. Stats page - endless spinning logo.

Harsh perhaps...but an uptime site...has to be UP...and functional...

legendary · December 2023

Yep, a hard pre-alpha stage. Get your basics done properly and oush it to the beta at least.

i4P1 · December 2023

UI looks good as always, expecting to see the completed version in the near future

SpeedBus · December 2023

Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback, it is much appreciated. I do apologize for the lack of updates, the past week I've spent time tidying up the backend, preventing random odd things that were happening

The statistics page was put in to give a bit of insight to the status of the project (ie, checks are running/processing live etc), but I feel now that without any labels on the 3 columns it doesn't explain much, I'll work on this soon too.

The primary goal of this post/introduction was to check if the backend and basic functions can handle their functions well enough (hence the disabled alert transports etc), Looking at the home page, it has been very WIP, and so far has been a 2nd goal of mine, but I do understand that it's important and gives more credibility to the project as well. I'll be shifting my focus onto this now.

The pricing page etc will be removed, we don't have any pricing plans in mind for the moment

Just to summarise what works,

checks are running live
you can add hosts
you can edit hosts (rename/set custom name, change hostname)
and downtime detection is working too.

More updates to follow in the coming days

vitobotta · December 2023

I created a monitor but get 500 errors when trying to manage it

SpeedBus · December 2023

@vitobotta said:
I created a monitor but get 500 errors when trying to manage it

Thanks for reporting, has been fixed, was an issue with the uptime calculation logic when the hostname is just added in

AuroraZero · December 2023

@SpeedBus said:

@vitobotta said:
I created a monitor but get 500 errors when trying to manage it

Thanks for reporting, has been fixed, was an issue with the uptime calculation logic when the hostname is just added in

If you need a hand man let me know. I have some time the next couple weeks and would not mind helping out

SpeedBus · January 11

Hey all,
Just an update on this, a lot of work on the backend the past month to allow uptime.gd to function well enough without much intervention / maintenance being required, and so far it seems to have helped, 39306678 (39 million!) checks completed so far

Dark Mode is now available as well under the profile section once logged in, a 4th monitoring probe was added in last month as well.

I also aim to keep the changelog (https://uptime.gd/changelog) updated with the latest changes/updates pushed in.

With downtime detection now working well enough, I'm looking forward to moving towards Alert Transports this month, so that we can start testing out alerts delivery as well

After which I suppose I can add in HTTP status code checks and then SSL certificate checks.

A big thanks to everyone's feedback and suggestions in this thread and everyone who has used the service as well.

More updates to follow!

Jab · January 11

I think I broke something - on purpose I've added 2 monitors for currently offline services... 15 minutes later they show 100% uptime and status up.
308 309

c1vhosting · January 11

@SpeedBus said:
Hey all!

Building a multi-location monitoring tool is something that's been at the back of my mind for a while now, while there are so so many of them already in the market with various cool features, I still thought why not build yet-another monitoring tool, so well, here goes,

URL: https://uptime.gd

Signup is free, the service is free too.

Locations:

We're currently monitoring from 3 locations,

Paris, New Jersey and Singapore.

Plan on adding more to the mix with 1 more location from Asia, 2 more in the US (West and Central) and 1 in South America or Africa.

Notes:

The monitoring itself works, multi-location checks for each monitor and downtime detection too works.

The UI is a bit WIP, but works where required too.

There is NO DOWNTIME ALERTING setup/available for now, except within the website itself, "why?" Because I want the service to be solid and not start sending out false alerts on the slightest of increase in monitors/probes, because there's nothing worse than Alert Fatigue. Once I'm sure the service doesn't falter on the alerting/detection logic, I'll enable various Alert Transports like Slack, Telegram, Discord, Webhooks etc for the alerts to get to wherever you like

This is "mixed" personal project, that's completely built and supported by me but that's owned by my work and most likely should remain free under fair-usage (don't add 1000s of monitors please

There is no SLA/guarantee -- uptime.gd might/will(?) break, I've pretty much written this over the course of 3-4 days across the past week. Tested it where I can, things do work, but still, might completely break.

Any constructive feedback is welcome

Do you want a small server for a probe?

webmash · January 11

Good luck with the project

SpeedBus · January 11

@Jab said:
I think I broke something - on purpose I've added 2 monitors for currently offline services... 15 minutes later they show 100% uptime and status up.
308 309

Ah I see what happened here -- so basically, when a probe is added in, it's assumed to be "UP" and uptime initialized as 100%, and then the downtime falls downwards from there, while this usually works fine, the bug you mentioned is quite interesting for sure where the monitor is down right from minute 1. Let me think of a way around this (ideally, I can assume the uptime to be 0% when the monitor is added and then grow from there too I guess?)

LowEnd · January 11

What language are you writing the test agents/site backend in? What's the tech stack?

SpeedBus · January 12

@LowEnd said:
What language are you writing the test agents/site backend in? What's the tech stack?

Hey!
The frontend/website side is all Laravel and a mix of some plain PHP scripts to handle some tasks/cleanup etc, the backend test agents are written in Golang

SpeedBus · September 12

Just wanted to place in a small update, made quite a few changes on the backend over the past months, re-wrote the remaining php bits into golang to scale much much better than before.

Downtime tracking has been pretty spot on I feel, but would like some more feedback on this to see if there's any further areas to improve on.

There still aren't any alert transports enabled, but I aim to have this available soon as the backend code exists for all this (Slack/Telegram/Ntfy), just need some more hosts added to the monitoring system to see / verify that it scales well enough

Open to more feedback/suggestions

Alexhostcom · September 12

Hi!

Nice project! Hope it stays for long time! Is great to see new and nice features than traditional competitors.

There is a way to support your project? Like giving servers in different locations (maybe)?
We can provide a server for you to be added in your list, are you accepting that?

If yes, your page doesn't have any contact details.

Best Regards,
Alexhost

Brueggus · September 12

@SpeedBus said:
just need some more hosts added to the monitoring system to see / verify that it scales well enough

Challenge accepted

zgato · September 12

@SpeedBus said:
just need some more hosts added to the monitoring system to see / verify that it scales well enough

U sure? Is this maybe too much?

legendary · September 12

Please add TCP SSL check so that we can check expiring smtp ssl cert.

SpeedBus · September 12

@zgato said:

@SpeedBus said:
just need some more hosts added to the monitoring system to see / verify that it scales well enough

U sure? Is this maybe too much?

It's fine, you can add them in, no issues at all, worst or best case, I learn if the backend can handle the load or not, rather than running into the same issue years/months later hehe

@Alexhostcom said:
Hi!

Nice project! Hope it stays for long time! Is great to see new and nice features than traditional competitors.

There is a way to support your project? Like giving servers in different locations (maybe)?
We can provide a server for you to be added in your list, are you accepting that?

If yes, your page doesn't have any contact details.

Best Regards,
Alexhost

Thank you for the kind words!
Once I'm sure of the backend scaling well enough, I would be open to adding in some servers for the monitoring for sure, please feel free to use the tool for your usage too so we can learn/verify about the backend

@Brueggus said:

@SpeedBus said:
just need some more hosts added to the monitoring system to see / verify that it scales well enough

Challenge accepted

Sounds good! Do let me know how it goes!

@legendary said:
Please add TCP SSL check so that we can check expiring smtp ssl cert.

Added to the todo list along with http status tracking too -- Thanks!

AuroraZero · September 12

@SpeedBus = legendary

SpeedBus · September 12

@AuroraZero said:
@SpeedBus = legendary

hehe thank you

Presenting yet-another uptime monitoring tool -- uptime.gd

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