Website Uptime Alerting
Pings a set of URLs on a schedule and alerts the team in Slack the moment one returns an error or times out, instead of finding out from a customer that the site is down.
What this template does
Pings a set of URLs on a schedule and alerts the team in Slack the moment one returns an error or times out, instead of finding out from a customer that the site is down. It's categorized in our directory under Ops Automation — internal operations: invoicing, reporting, data sync, and the glue work that keeps a business running between tools that don't talk to each other natively.
Integrations
- Slack
Setup steps
- 1List the URLs that matter (homepage, checkout, API health endpoint).
- 2Ping each on a short interval (e.g. every 5 minutes).
- 3On failure, retry once to avoid a false alarm from a blip.
- 4Alert the team in Slack with the failing URL and status code.
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