Free Uptime Monitoring

ReliableSite_Radic · April 12

Been working on a new project to get free uptime monitoring to the masses. 100% free forever, no paid tiers.

This is still in very early stages, so it's still light on features and there may be some minor bugs here and there. It's in constant development, so we're actively adding features and enhancements.

https://www.alerts.net/

If you happen to reach the max contacts / monitors, let me know, it can be increased. We're still playing around with initial limits.

PS - This is unrelated to RS (beyond some infrastructure being provided by RS).

I spun up a discord server to help track all of these requests and feedback.

https://discord.alerts.net

bikegremlin · April 12

Cool.

P.S.

Make it "complain" when you try adding a monitor without all the needed data filled/ticked.

idiotfriendly

P.P.S.

I think DKIM is not good - and that's probably why the notification emails end up in the spam box.

ReliableSite_Radic · April 12

@bikegremlin said:
Cool.

P.S.

Make it "complain" when you try adding a monitor without all the needed data filled/ticked.

idiotfriendly

P.P.S.

I think DKIM is not good - and that's probably why the notification emails end up in the spam box.

Should be fixed.

We'll look into DKIM

Jab · April 12

Why I do have 100% uptime with 0 monitors?
What did it uptime, my life?! /s

bikegremlin · April 12

@Jab said:

Why I do have 100% uptime with 0 monitors?
What did it uptime, my life?! /s

Pretty women.

ReliableSite_Radic · April 12

@Jab said:

Why I do have 100% uptime with 0 monitors?
What did it uptime, my life?! /s

Glass half full.

ehab · April 12

its good to have something free, i created account and found only has network checks? when in front page there was more.

i can accept the Glass half full for now.

but what is your agent plan? open source or some GO exec?

Neoon · April 12

I just logged in an checked, something is broken, it also marks the websites as down, they are not.

Jab · April 12

What is the point of me selecting timezone in profile if e-mails comes with different (unknown, not specified at all) timestamps? :-D

Jab · April 12

@Neoon said:
I just logged in an checked, something is broken, it also marks the websites as down, they are not.

Nice uptime mate!111oneoneone
:DDDDDDDDDDDD

bikegremlin · April 12

@Neoon said:
I just logged in an checked, something is broken, it also marks the websites as down, they are not.

This can happen with Cloudflare (if the monitored site is behind Cloudflare) even with the tried & tested HetrixTools.

I suppose it is Cloudflare's "fault" (unless you are montiroing a site that doesn't use that).

Edit:
Putting that to the test with the Alerts.net.

Neoon · April 12

@bikegremlin said:

@Neoon said:
I just logged in an checked, something is broken, it also marks the websites as down, they are not.

This can happen with Cloudflare (if the monitored site is behind Cloudflare) even with the tried & tested HetrixTools.

I suppose it is Cloudflare's "fault" (unless you are montiroing a site that doesn't use that).

Edit:
Putting that to the test with the Alerts.net.

Personally I don't touch cloudflare.

xdotydotz · April 13

Waiting for telegram & discord support.

bikegremlin · April 13

@Neoon said:

@bikegremlin said:

@Neoon said:
I just logged in an checked, something is broken, it also marks the websites as down, they are not.

This can happen with Cloudflare (if the monitored site is behind Cloudflare) even with the tried & tested HetrixTools.

I suppose it is Cloudflare's "fault" (unless you are montiroing a site that doesn't use that).

Edit:
Putting that to the test with the Alerts.net.

Personally I don't touch cloudflare.

OK.

I can confirm that the site behind Cloudlare does show more frequent short downtimes (and that's probably got nothing to do with the monitoring software).

DrNutella · April 13

Tell us about your PI and data privacy rules please. @ReliableSite_Radic

For this service and any inherited expectations. Just because free comes with this risk normally

bikegremlin · April 13

An option to not send alerts if downtime is under X minutes is what I love about HetrixTools.

Lets me configure it to ignore any Cloudflare-related short outages (and check them when I'm at the computer, not get email notifications about them). Keeps email notifications relevant (only "real problems", i.e. "real downtimes").

Edit:
"Keep me logged in" would also be very convenient to have (even if it can't be implemented rigth away).

ReliableSite_Radic · April 15

@DrNutella said:
Tell us about your PI and data privacy rules please. @ReliableSite_Radic

For this service and any inherited expectations. Just because free comes with this risk normally

https://www.alerts.net/privacy.html

ReliableSite_Radic · April 15

@Jab said:

What is the point of me selecting timezone in profile if e-mails comes with different (unknown, not specified at all) timestamps? :-D

Someone added this bug: https://discordapp.com/channels/1282827252916293632/1361712490001727729

ReliableSite_Radic · April 15

@xdotydotz said:
Waiting for telegram & discord support.

It's in the OP.

https://discord.alerts.net

ReliableSite_Radic · April 15

@bikegremlin said:
An option to not send alerts if downtime is under X minutes is what I love about HetrixTools.

Lets me configure it to ignore any Cloudflare-related short outages (and check them when I'm at the computer, not get email notifications about them). Keeps email notifications relevant (only "real problems", i.e. "real downtimes").

Edit:
"Keep me logged in" would also be very convenient to have (even if it can't be implemented rigth away).

Please add these as feature requests in discord.

bikegremlin · April 15

@ReliableSite_Radic said:

@bikegremlin said:
An option to not send alerts if downtime is under X minutes is what I love about HetrixTools.

Lets me configure it to ignore any Cloudflare-related short outages (and check them when I'm at the computer, not get email notifications about them). Keeps email notifications relevant (only "real problems", i.e. "real downtimes").

Edit:
"Keep me logged in" would also be very convenient to have (even if it can't be implemented rigth away).

Please add these as feature requests in discord.

Done.

ReliableSite_Radic · April 15

@bikegremlin said:

@ReliableSite_Radic said:

@bikegremlin said:
An option to not send alerts if downtime is under X minutes is what I love about HetrixTools.

Lets me configure it to ignore any Cloudflare-related short outages (and check them when I'm at the computer, not get email notifications about them). Keeps email notifications relevant (only "real problems", i.e. "real downtimes").

Edit:
"Keep me logged in" would also be very convenient to have (even if it can't be implemented rigth away).

Please add these as feature requests in discord.

Done.

Thank you!!

AlexHjelm · April 16

If you need a VPS for checks i can support you from Sweden.

Do you have rest api for discord and telegram?

ReliableSite_Radic · April 19

@AlexHjelm said:
If you need a VPS for checks i can support you from Sweden.

Do you have rest api for discord and telegram?

Thanks, we're currently not lacking any resources, but I will reach out if that changes.

For any sort of feature requests, please add them in the feature requests channel in discord at https://discord.alerts.net

Alyx · April 19

Unfortunately, I received a downtime notification for a website that I was actively using at that very moment. It would be great to get more feedback about why the check failed, e.g., an HTTP error code, whether it was a timeout, or if the connection was refused, things like that.

Also, a grace period would be great, as already mentioned above.

rpollestad · April 20

Tons of downtime alerts this morning when the sites were not actually down. Still occurring. (I can't reach the web portal, so that's probably part of it but .. uptime monitors needs to be fault tolerant to be useful.)

Also, would be wonderfully useful if the site that was "down" was mentioned in the subject line of the email.

ViveHosting · April 21

I think a key feature for tools like this is distributed checks i.e. are the uptime checks being done from a single point or from multiple geographically separated points? A failure in your own systems could trigger downtime alerts for your users if it's just in one or two places.

somik · April 21

@rpollestad said:
Tons of downtime alerts this morning when the sites were not actually down. Still occurring. (I can't reach the web portal, so that's probably part of it but .. uptime monitors needs to be fault tolerant to be useful.)

Also, would be wonderfully useful if the site that was "down" was mentioned in the subject line of the email.

Same... Probably something wrong with the monitoring server?

ReliableSite_Radic · April 21

@Alyx said:
Unfortunately, I received a downtime notification for a website that I was actively using at that very moment. It would be great to get more feedback about why the check failed, e.g., an HTTP error code, whether it was a timeout, or if the connection was refused, things like that.

Also, a grace period would be great, as already mentioned above.

Can you add a feature request in the discord?

ReliableSite_Radic · April 21

@rpollestad said:
Tons of downtime alerts this morning when the sites were not actually down. Still occurring. (I can't reach the web portal, so that's probably part of it but .. uptime monitors needs to be fault tolerant to be useful.)

Also, would be wonderfully useful if the site that was "down" was mentioned in the subject line of the email.

There's currently a bug where it's not verifying a down with a different geographically located monitoring agent. It should be fixed soon. There wasn't any downtime on our end (verified by 3rd party checks).

somik · 11:39AM

As of today, I am still getting tons of emails about "Down" and "It's Back Up". Tried to delete the account. Code was sent to the email but when I entered the code, the account deletion failed. Lucky it was a temp email so decided to discard that email identity instead.

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