Website monitoring for web designers and agencies
If you look after websites for clients, the worst way to find out one is down is from the client. Bionic Uptime checks each site for you and sends one plain email when it stops answering, and another when it is back.
Built for a handful of client sites
Add a website by pasting its address. There is nothing to install on it and nothing to configure. Each website is requested once every 60 seconds, alternating between two locations on two different companies' networks, Chicago and New Jersey.
3 websites are free, forever, with no card, and they get the same checks and alerts as the paid plan. When you want more, up to 20 websites is $12 a month, for all of them together, not per site.
An email you can act on
We only call a website Down when both locations and a retry agree within 45 seconds. A blip on one network, or a restart that is over in seconds, does not wake you up. When an email does arrive, somebody needs to do something. How an outage is confirmed.
The email says which site, when it started, and what both locations saw. See the exact email.
Send alerts to the right person
- Each website can alert up to 3 more people besides you: a colleague, a contractor, or the client. Each one confirms first, and every email they get has a link to stop them, no account needed.
- You can step aside for a website someone else is watching. If nobody else can be reached, your alerts switch back on, so no website ever alerts nobody.
- Down and recovery alerts can also go to one Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams or Google Chat channel.
History you can show a client
Each website keeps its outages, how long each lasted and what each location saw: 90 days on the paid plan, 7 on free. You can export it. On the paid plan, a short summary email arrives each month, and you can turn it off. Any time we could not check a site is shown as a gap, never counted as uptime.
On WordPress sites
The checks catch the WordPress failures clients call about, like "Error establishing a database connection" and the critical error screen. An optional plugin shows the status on the site's dashboard. Monitoring WordPress sites.
What it does not do
There are no client logins and no white-label reports. What a client can have is a link: each website can have a public status page you share with them, showing whether it is up and its recent outages, and nothing else from your account. There is one owner per account. It is monitoring, not a repair service: we tell you, and you decide what to do. What to check first when a client's site is down.
See it before you sign up
Watch a real website being monitored right now, no sign-up needed.