Use Cases
Website monitoring for real-world problems.
Explore practical ways to monitor website availability, certificate expiration, and the websites you manage for other people.
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Website Availability Monitoring
Follow one outage from the first failed check to recovery, and learn what to do at each step and what an availability check cannot tell you.
All use cases
Each one starts from a single problem and follows it to what you can do about it. Guides explain how to set things up; use cases show what happens next.
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Website Availability
Website Availability Monitoring
Follow one outage from the first failed check to recovery, and learn what to do at each step and what an availability check cannot tell you. Updated -
SSL & Certificates
SSL Certificate Expiration Monitoring
A practical workflow for the day a certificate warning arrives: what the warning means, what to do, and how to confirm the fix. Updated -
Multiple Websites
Client Website Monitoring
Plan the monitoring of several client websites from one account: count the addresses, pick a plan, group each site by client, and know the limits. Updated -
Domains & DNS
Domain Expiration Monitoring
A practical workflow for catching a domain renewal before it is missed: what the warning means, who must act, and what to do when no date is shown. Updated
Common monitoring challenges.
Most monitoring problems look small until they happen to a website that matters. These are the ones the use cases deal with.
- Unexpected outages
- A website can stop answering at any hour. Without monitoring, the first report often comes from a visitor.
- Expiring certificates
- Renewal is usually automatic, until the day it quietly is not. Browsers then block the website with a full-page warning.
- Many websites to watch
- Looking after several websites, or websites that belong to clients, makes manual checking impractical.
- Late awareness
- The longer a failure goes unnoticed, the longer it lasts. Checks on a schedule shorten the gap, though they cannot remove it.
- No record of what happened
- After a problem, it helps to know when it started and how long it lasted. A history of checks answers that.
How UptimeWire helps.
Every website you add gets four checks: uptime, SSL certificate, domain expiration, and DNS resolution. This includes the Free plan.
- Failed checks are repeated before an incident opens, and you are told when the website recovers.
- Certificate and domain expiry warnings go out ahead of time. The warning period for a certificate is set per website.
- Every result stays in the history, for as many days as your plan keeps.
- Status pages are included from the Starter plan. The number depends on the plan.
- It is a website monitoring service. It does not run browser journeys, find the cause of a failure, or fix anything for you.
Related resources.
Set things up with a guide, look up a term, or see what each plan includes.
From understanding to monitoring.
Start monitoring your first website for free. Every website includes uptime, SSL certificate, domain expiration, and DNS resolution checks.