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_neil
This looks great. I've used uptimerobot on several client projects where I just need a simple up/down notification. The control panel is a little weird, but other than that works really well for its purposes. And it's free.
rpedela
Why do they need full access (read and write) to my personal user data on my Github account?
adrienjarthon
That's a mistake, we don't need more than read-only access to your email, I'll fix this soon, thanks !
adrienjarthon
Now fixed, only requires email read-only.
rpedela
Great! Thanks for fixing this so quickly.
AdamGibbins
Significantly cheaper than Pingdom, as there's significantly less monitoring POPs.
mobiplayer
Beautiful. It makes me want to work much harder on mine (https://www.datasnitch.co.uk).

I like the Google/GitHub integration, the API and especially how you sell its simplicity. DataSnitch is quite simple, but you're one step further.

Congratulations :-)

adrienjarthon
Thank you! DataSnitch looks cheap and simple too, like it ;)
JadoJodo
I would love to see this integrated w/ Pushover.net. Would save $ on SMS fees, and has the ability to send alerts as high priority (ignoring vibrate/silence). Or even just adding an email address instead of an SMS phone # as the alert contact method would work.
adrienjarthon
Thanks for the suggestion, that's on the long-term roadmap ^^, you can totally add several email address though (with the CC field)
thomasfromcdnjs
It is so beautiful, and has the basic functionality of which I use Pingdom for but at a much cheaper rate. Transferring my domains now...
nel
Using it for about a year without false positive/negative. Usually much more sensitive than the competition for short issue detection.
sparrish
If you need more than simple HTTP checks (PING, SMTP, WebSocket, etc) you may want to check out NodePing (https://nodeping.com).
gemma
Very slick! Reminds me of a slimmed-down version of the Where's It Up API (https://api.wheresitup.com/), but with monitoring.

(Full disclosure: I've done some work for the Where's It Up folks.)

barryherne
I would still prefer my own website monitoring tool Anturis http://www.anturis.com which is even free if you have only 5 monitors and then the starting price is about $9 per month for nice and effective phone, sms, email alerts and offered troubleshooting.