Uptime monitoring / the essential first layer
Website uptime monitoring with SSL and domain checks.
Simple, regular website uptime monitoring—alongside SSL, domain and content checks—translated into clear information for the people running the business.
Essential: from $19 per website per month. Availability, SSL, domain and expected-content checks, typically about every two hours. Exact checks and schedule are agreed before setup.
[ The first question ]
Is the website online?
Uptime monitoring repeatedly requests important website pages and records whether they respond as expected. Scheduled checks can reveal server outages, broken routes and unexpected HTTP responses without waiting for a customer to report them.
Pulse adds a little more context to that essential check. It can look for content that should be present, watch certificate and domain health, preserve returned HTML when something goes wrong and notify the person who needs to know.
Pulse Monitor. Notice. Rectify.
What Pulse
can check.
01
Important URLs
Monitor the pages that matter instead of assuming one healthy homepage means the entire website is available.
02
Expected responses
Detect unavailable pages and unexpected server responses through regular automated checks.
03
SSL and domain health
Notice certificate problems, approaching expiration and domain-health issues before they interrupt access.
04
Failure evidence
Keep the returned HTML from a failure so intermittent problems leave something useful behind.
Three layers One clearer answer
Begin simply.
Go deeper where it matters.
01 / monitor
Is it online?
Website availability, SSL, domain and expected content.
02 / test
Does it work?
Real-browser interaction with the customer-facing journey.
03 / verify
Did it succeed?
Controlled transaction and downstream confirmation. Coming soon.
The distinction
Uptime tells you the front door exists.
For many brochure websites, that may be the right level of protection. When the website contains a booking widget, form, cart or other interactive journey, browser monitoring can continue through the door.
Useful answers Without the jargon
Questions about
uptime monitoring.
What does website uptime mean?[+]
Uptime describes the period in which a website or page is available and responds to requests. It does not necessarily prove that every interactive feature works.
Does an HTTP 200 response mean the website works?[+]
It means the server successfully returned something. The returned page can still be incomplete, contain an error message or include broken JavaScript functionality.
Does Pulse monitor SSL certificates?[+]
Yes. Essential monitoring includes SSL certificate health alongside domain and page checks.
Can I share uptime results with a client?[+]
Yes. Shareable monitoring results are designed to help agencies and stakeholders see website health without receiving administrative access.
What a failed check tells you
For example, a monitored page may stop responding, return an unexpected status, or lose expected content. The check history and available HTML evidence help the person investigating understand what was returned. A successful response does not prove that a form or checkout works.
- Agree which URLs and expected content matter.
- Confirm the check schedule and notification setup before monitoring starts.
- Use browser monitoring where the customer needs to interact with the page.
No scripts to learn.
Tell us what must
keep working.
Essential: from $19 per website per month. Availability, SSL, domain and expected-content checks, typically about every two hours. Exact checks and schedule are agreed before setup.