The answer
Does the server answer at all. A machine that is off, a suspended host, an over-eager firewall: from the outside they look alike, and to your visitor they are the same blank page.
Checked every five minutes, day and night
The day your site goes down, who tells you?
Enter its address. We call it from the outside, the way a visitor would, and email you as soon as it stops answering. Without that, a Saturday morning outage lasts until Monday, and your customers are the ones who find it.
- A check every five minutes, weekends included
- One message when it breaks, one when it is back, nothing in between
- Every interruption dated, with its duration
What we measure
One request to your home page, from our servers. Nothing to install on your side, and the monitored site gets no more traffic than a search engine crawler sends it.
The code it returns
A site answering "error 500" is up as far as the machine is concerned, and broken as far as the person looking for your opening hours is concerned. Past 400, we count it as down.
The response time
How long it takes to answer, at every check. This is the number that creeps up for weeks before an outage, and that nobody sees coming without a history.
The certificate
Its expiry date, read once a day. An expired certificate takes a site out of service just as surely as a dead server, and warns no one.
How it works
The rule behind everything: silence is the normal state. Monitoring that writes "nothing to report" every week ends up in an inbox rule, and the day it really has something to say, nobody reads it.
- 1We call the siteEvery five minutes by default, or further apart if you prefer. From our servers, with nothing installed on yours.
- 2An outage is confirmed before it ringsA single failed check alerts no one: that happens on a restart or a dropped packet. It takes two failed checks for an outage to be declared.
- 3One message, not tenYou get an email when the outage is confirmed. Checks then carry on in silence, however long the interruption lasts.
- 4The recovery is announcedAs soon as the site answers again, a second message says so and gives the exact duration of the interruption. It stays in the history.
Common questions
How is this different from the site audit?
The audit says what a site is worth when it answers: encryption, headers, SEO, speed. Monitoring judges nothing, it records. It answers one question only, but every five minutes: is it answering?
Will I get emails every day?
No. While the site answers, you get nothing. An outage produces two messages in total: one when it is confirmed, one when it ends. A three-day outage produces no more than that.
Can I monitor a site that is not mine?
Yes. A check is just a request to a public page, exactly what a browser does. That is also what makes the tool useful to an agency watching its clients sites from a single account.
How many sites can I monitor?
Ten, at an interval of your choosing between five minutes and one hour. Beyond that, monitoring would stop being a service and become a load on the sites being checked.
This tool is offered by Wobelio
Wobelio is a Belgian website builder: it lets you create, publish and manage a business website or an online shop without writing a line of code, hosting and HTTPS certificate included. This tool is free and also works on a website that is not hosted with us.
A site nobody monitors is a site you find broken
Monitoring is free and stops with one click. The one day it matters, it matters a great deal.