Status and content
Check the expected status code and that the page contains the text it should, so an error page served with a 200 still alerts.
Website monitoring
Website uptime monitoring that checks what customers actually do
Know when a site is down, slow or broken for real users, from multiple regions, before customers tell you.
- 01HTTP status and keyword checks
- 02Multi-step checks for logins and checkouts
- 03SSL certificate expiry warnings
- 04Checks from multiple regions with quorum alerting
Direct answer
Good website monitoring checks more than a 200 status code. PingAlert runs HTTP and keyword checks from multiple regions, multi-step checks for logins and checkouts, SSL certificate expiry warnings and DNS checks, and confirms failures across regions before alerting your team.
More than a ping
Journeys, not just pages
Multi-step checks chain requests through login, search, cart and checkout APIs and pass values between steps, so a broken flow alerts even when the homepage loads.
Response time
Track response time per check and region; slowdowns usually come before outages.
Certificates and DNS
SSL certificate checks warn before expiry and DNS checks confirm the domain still resolves.
Regional view
Checks from multiple regions show whether an outage is global or limited to one geography.
Alerts people act on
Quorum confirmation and deduplication keep alerts trustworthy; route them to Slack, Teams, Discord, email, SMS or webhooks.
How it works
Get set up in an afternoon
- 01
Add your key pages
Homepage, pricing, login and checkout, with an expected status and keyword.
- 02
Add a journey
Create a multi-step check for the flow that makes money.
- 03
Cover certificates and DNS
Add SSL and DNS checks for every customer-facing hostname.
- 04
Route alerts
Send critical alerts to on-call and lower severities to a shared channel.
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- Global Website Uptime Monitoring from Multiple RegionsMonitor website uptime from multiple global regions with confirmation checks that cut false alarms, plus branded status pages and incident workflows.
- What Is Synthetic Monitoring and Why It MattersWhat synthetic monitoring is and how scripted checks of login, checkout and API flows catch user-facing failures before customers do.
- Why SMBs Leave Website Monitoring ToolsResearch on why small businesses abandon website monitoring tools: setup friction and missing actionable diagnostics, not the uptime check itself.
Direct answers
Questions teams ask
How often should website uptime checks run?
For revenue-critical pages, every minute or faster. PingAlert plans range from 10-minute checks on Free to roughly 30-second checks on Professional and Business.
What is the difference between uptime and synthetic monitoring?
Uptime checks confirm a page responds correctly; synthetic multi-step checks run a sequence of requests, such as logging in and checking out, to confirm a journey works end to end.
Why check from multiple regions?
A single location cannot tell a regional network or CDN problem from a real outage. Multiple regions with confirmation reduce false alarms and show where users are affected.