How to track site uptime?

You track site uptime by having a monitoring service send regular requests to your website and record whether each one succeeds. Over time, those checks give you a complete picture: how often the site is available, how long outages last, and exactly when they happen.

A solid uptime-tracking setup involves:

• Frequent checks, ideally every minute, from multiple geographic locations
• Verification from a second location before an outage is recorded, to keep false positives out
• Historical data so you can calculate monthly uptime percentages, spot patterns, and answer customer or SLA questions
• Instant alerts when checks start failing, over the channels your team actually uses

Oh Dear handles all of that out of the box. Every monitor runs every minute, downtime is always verified from a second location, and every incident is stored for the life of the monitor. Start tracking your uptime for free, no credit card required.