Better Uptime

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    Get notified when your site goes down while keeping your customers in the loop

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    Just like that case in your favorite true-crime podcast, the details surrounding your site downtime are an unsolved mystery.

    While being an armchair detective is fun, getting caught off guard by that dreaded error message is not.

    What if you could fully understand your site downtime, trace the exact events step-by-step, plus easily communicate your site status with customers?

    Better Uptime is on the case.

    TL;DR

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    Receive alerts via phone, SMS, Slack, and email when your site goes down
    Alternative to: Pingdom, PagerDuty, and Status Page
    Get screenshots and error logs with a detailed event timeline that keeps you in the loop
    Best for: Web developers and agencies who want a reliable uptime monitoring service to stay on top of their site status

    Overview

    Better Uptime is an uptime monitoring service that alerts you when your site is down, while providing screenshots and error logs for debugging.

    Better Uptime combines uptime monitoring, incident management, and a public status page into a single product that doesn’t look or feel like a NASA dashboard.

    With Better Uptime, you can monitor your site, app, or store and alert the right person on your team when it goes down.

    When there’s a problem with your site, Better Uptime doesn’t just tell you if your site is down — it tells you why.

    To make debugging easy, Better Uptime sends a screenshot with any error messages and offers you a second-by-second timeline for every incident.

    Know exactly what happened before the site went down with a screenshot and error logs.

    Better Uptime also integrates with over 100 apps, allowing you to connect all your infrastructure services.

    Sync with services like Heroku, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Zendesk, and many more.

    You can even raise alerts from these services, like when you’re running out of memory or disk space.

    Better Uptime integrates with tools like Slack, Datadog, and over 100 others.

    Better Uptime supports fast HTTP(s) checks (up to every 30 seconds) from 4 different regions (North America, South America, Europe, and Australia) and ping checks.

    Plus, with “heartbeat monitoring” for your CRON scripts and background jobs, you’ll never lose a database backup again!

    When your site goes down, you’ll get alerts via detailed email reports, SMS, Slack, or Teams messages.

    To minimize downtime, you can alert the right person on your team via phone call, so they can investigate the issue quickly.

    Get easy-to-read email, SMS, and Slack alerts when your site is down.

    Better Uptime offers easy on-call duty scheduling for the devs and engineers that keep your site running.

    Alert the right people at the right time by configuring your team’s on-call duty rotations directly in your favorite calendar app, like Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook.

    The responsible person on your team can acknowledge the incident with a single click on their phone to let the rest of the team know that they’re taking care of it.

    On-call colleague asleep? Wake up the entire team if you want, with smart incident escalations.

    Fixed the issue? Write a quick post-mortem to let your team know what went wrong and how you fixed it.

    Alert the appropriate team member by configuring your team’s on-call duty rotations.

    Not only will you be alerted that your site is down, but you’ll be able to notify your visitors on the status of your services as well.

    Create a branded public status page to build confidence in your brand and keep your visitors in-the-know.

    And the best part? You can configure everything in just 3 minutes!

    Get set up and ready to go with Better Uptime in just 3 minutes!

    There’s nothing more awkward than a customer calling about your site being down when you had no idea. (Except maybe your mom getting really into TikTok dances.)

    With Better Uptime, the right team members get alerted with detailed error logs and screenshots the second there’s a problem.

    The sooner you know about site issues, the sooner you’ll be back up and running, better than ever!

    Get lifetime access today!

    From the founders

    November 21, 2021

    Hey Sumolings! 👋

    Stock exchanges, Canadian & Brasilian governments, as well as a ton of startups, agencies, solo developers, and freelancers rely on Better Uptime.

    Here's why, with a little background story.

    I've been writing software for 15+ years, and this tool has been in my "project ideas" list since 2016. Recently, one of the most popular uptime monitors out there failed to alert me when my site was down, so I decided to revisit the idea.

    After trying 20+ bloated or unreliable infrastructure monitoring tools I joined forces with a few friends and we built the monitoring service we always wanted to use: Better Uptime.

    Better Uptime = the best parts of Pingdom + the best parts of PagerDuty + branded status page

    OK, but what does it actually do?

    Better Uptime calls your phone when your website goes down. 💥→ 📞

    We send you a detailed timeline of what happened and a screenshot of the error.

    - 📅 Schedule on-call duty rotations for your team directly from Google Calendar. No need for PagerDuty!

    - 📈 Connect Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Google Cloud or AWS and notify the right person on your team at the right time.

    - 📧 Works great with Slack, SMS, email, and push notifications, and integrates with 100+ services.

    - 🚨 Imagine that your website is up, but there's a critical issue that can't wait: payments not working. Have non-technical members on your team report urgent incidents to the on-call person directly from Slack.

    Notable features:

    - 🌎 30s multi-location checks with incident verification. No more false alerts!

    - 😴 Incident escalation: On-call colleague asleep? Wake up the entire team if you want.

    - 🤖 Heartbeat monitoring: monitor your CRON jobs and async workers with a simple HTTP request.

    - 🚥 Single server hosting multiple websites goes down? We automatically recognize similar incidents and don't flood you with phone calls!

    - 🔐 We automatically monitor your website's SSL certificate and the domain expiration, too!

    Let me know your thoughts! 👋

    Best,

    Juraj

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