Downtime Monkey is a website uptime monitoring and downtime alert service designed for website owners, IT professionals, and businesses relying on their online presence. It checks websites for uptime, response time, and content changes, sending alerts via email, SMS, or Slack when issues are detected.
Downtime Monkey offers several key features, including website uptime monitoring, downtime alerts, response time tracking, and website content monitoring. It checks websites every minute from a global network of servers, ensuring accurate uptime stats and minimizing false positives.
Websites are checked every minute from multiple global locations, including Canada, Australia, Germany, India, the UK, and the USA. This feature helps ensure that websites are always available to users.
Downtime alerts are sent via email, SMS, or Slack when a website is detected down. Users can customize alert settings, including setting custom alerts and rate-limiting alerts.
Downtime Monkey tracks website response times, providing graphs of individual response times for 24 hours, hourly average response times for 7 days, and daily average response times for 2 years.
Users can view uptime statistics for every monitored website, including uptime stats for 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 1 year, and 2 years. Downtime records include timestamp, duration, response code, and a short explanation to help troubleshoot issues.
Downtime Monkey offers a free plan that allows monitoring of up to 60 websites with checks every 3 minutes. Paid plans are available for users requiring more advanced features or additional support.