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How UptimeWire works

From your first website to your first insight.

Add a website, choose how often to check it, and stay informed about confirmed problems. UptimeWire brings uptime, SSL certificate, domain expiration, and DNS checks together in one clear monitoring workspace.

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One website, step by step Demo data

  1. Website address

    https://shop.example

  2. Four checks, included

    • Uptime
    • SSL certificate
    • Domain
    • DNS

  3. Monitoring results, last 24 hours212 ms

  4. An alert, only if a problem is confirmed

    Down: shop.example

A simple start

Get monitoring in place without the complexity.

  1. Create your account

    Sign up, then confirm your email address.

  2. Add your website

    Enter its address and give it a name.

  3. Choose interval and email

    Decide how often to check and where alerts go.

  4. See your first result

    The first check runs, and your results collect in one place.

  5. Connect more channels

    Optional. Add them whenever you are ready.

Step 01

Create your account.

Get started with UptimeWire and access your monitoring workspace. The Free plan includes monitoring for one website with all four essential checks.

  • You do not choose a plan or enter a card to sign up. Every new account starts on Free.
  • Free is a plan, not a trial. It does not run out.
  • We send a link to your email address. Monitoring starts after you confirm it.
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Next: confirm your email. Open the link we send you, then add your first website.

Step 02

Add the exact address you want to monitor.

Enter the website address you want UptimeWire to check, and give it a name. Each monitored address counts as one website, and includes uptime, SSL certificate, domain expiration, and DNS resolution checks.

Setup Your Website's Details Demo data

Your Website's Full URL

https://shop.example

Give Your Monitor a Name

My shop

That is all it asks for here. You do not create four separate entries or pick check types: all four checks come with the address.

Three addresses, three websites

An address is monitored exactly as you enter it. Adding a domain does not include its subdomains or other paths.

  • example.comCounts as 1 website
  • www.example.comCounts as 1 website
  • example.com/shopCounts as 1 website

Website limits by plan: Free 1, Starter 10, Business 25, and Agency 100. Compare plans.

Monitor Settings Demo data

Alert email

you@shop.example

Check interval

5 minutes

Choices on the Free plan

  • 5 minutes
  • 15 minutes
  • 30 minutes
  • 1 hour
  • 6 hours
  • 12 hours
  • 1 day

Step 03

Choose how often to check your website.

Set the interval for website availability checks based on your subscription plan, and enter the email address that should receive alerts. Shorter intervals allow UptimeWire to check availability more frequently.

Free
5 minutes
Starter
3 minutes
Business
1 minute
Agency
1 minute

The shortest interval on each plan. Longer ones are available too, up to one day.

This setting applies to availability checks only. The other three keep their own schedule: certificates every 6 hours, DNS every hour, and domains once a day.

Step 04

Your monitoring results, all in one place.

When you finish, the first check starts and the page shows you the result. Once monitoring is active, UptimeWire shows your website's availability, response times, and the results of its essential checks.

Your first check Demo data

My shop is up

https://shop.example answered with status 200 in 212 ms. We keep checking it. If it goes down, the alert goes to you@shop.example.

If the site does not answer, the screen says so and gives the reason. A first failed check is not yet an outage.

My shophttps://shop.example Demo data

Last 24 hours

Availability
Up
212 ms average, every 5 min
Certificate
64 days left
Checked every 6 hours
Domain
212 days left
Checked once a day
DNS
OK
Checked hourly

Domain expiration information may be unavailable: some registries do not publish a date. The dashboard then shows the domain as unknown.

Step 05, optional

Choose how you want to stay informed.

Your alert email already works from step 3. Add other channels whenever you are ready, under Notifications in your profile.

UptimeWire sends notifications when incidents are confirmed and closed, and when supported warning conditions are reached. To connect Telegram, you open a link and press Start.

What each channel can carry
Channel Outages, recoveries Warnings From plan
EmailYesYesFree
TelegramYesYesFree
DiscordYesNoStarter
WebhooksYesNoStarter
SlackYesNoBusiness
Microsoft TeamsYesNoBusiness

Warnings cover certificates and domains with fewer than 30 days left, and DNS resolution failures. A warning is sent once for each problem, not repeated.

When something goes wrong

A confirmed problem. A clearer response.

UptimeWire checks repeated failures before confirming an outage. Once an incident is confirmed, it appears in monitoring history and supported notifications can be sent.

The usual path of an outage

  1. Check failure

    The reason is recorded. No alert yet.

  2. Repeated checks

    The website is checked again soon after.

  3. Extra verification

    When available, another server looks too.

  4. Incident confirmed

    It opens in your monitoring history.

  5. Notification

    Your connected channels are told.

  6. Recovery recorded

    The incident closes, and you hear about that too.

A single failed check does not trigger an outage notification. This is the general sequence, and timing can differ from one incident to another. More in Features.

Clear monitoring information

See what happened, not just that something happened.

Review website status, response time trends, confirmed incidents, and available monitoring history.

My shop Demo data
Uptime, last 24 hours
98.0%
Response time, 294 checks
212 ms
Failed checks
6

Response time, last 24 hours

24 hours agoNow

Incidents that happened

  • HTTP 50318 minutes

Open an incident

  • StatusResolved
  • TimelineThe failed checks

Each website

Charts cover the last 24 hours. Recent check requests sit next to them.

All your websites

With two or more websites, the dashboard table adds a 30-day uptime figure for each one.

Incident history

How far back you can look depends on your plan: Free 30 days, Starter 90 days, Business 1 year, and Agency 2 years.

Sharing and reports

Status pages start on Starter. From Business: SLA reports, CSV export, and reports for your clients. See who uses what.

Monitor wherever you are

Your monitoring workspace goes with you.

Use UptimeWire on the web or access supported monitoring information through the iOS and Android mobile applications. Check your websites and incidents, and get push alerts in the app.

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Home screen of the app: 12 sites with 9 up, 1 down, 1 checking and 1 paused, and a list of sites that need attention.
App screen shown with demo data.

Frequently asked questions

Questions about getting started.

How do I add my first website?

Create an account and confirm your email address. Then enter the website's full address and a name, enter an alert email, and choose a check interval. The first check starts when you finish.

What counts as one website?

One website is one exact address. example.com, www.example.com, and example.com/shop count as three websites.

Do I need to configure four separate checks?

No. Uptime, SSL certificate, domain expiration, and DNS resolution checks come with every address, on every plan. There is nothing to switch on. A certificate is checked only when the address starts with https://.

How often does UptimeWire check my website?

Availability is checked at the interval you choose: 1, 3, 5, 15, or 30 minutes, or 1, 6, 12, or 24 hours. Your plan sets the shortest one: Free 5 minutes, Starter 3 minutes, Business 1 minute, and Agency 1 minute. Certificates are checked every 6 hours, DNS every hour, and domains once a day.

How are outages confirmed?

A website must fail three checks in a row, about 20 seconds apart. When available, an additional check from elsewhere then verifies the result. If that check shows the site working, no incident opens.

When will I receive a notification?

When an incident is confirmed and when it closes. You also get a warning when a certificate or domain has fewer than 30 days left, when a certificate has a problem, or when DNS resolution fails. Warnings go by email and Telegram, once for each problem.

Can I change monitoring settings later?

Yes. You can change a website's address, name, alert email, and check interval, and pause or delete it. A new alert email must be confirmed first; until then, alerts keep going to the old one.

Can I use UptimeWire on my phone?

Yes. There are apps for iOS and Android for checking your websites and incidents. You sign up and manage your plan on the web.

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