Uptime monitoring is essential for ensuring your applications are always available to your users. Checkly provides comprehensive uptime monitoring capabilities to help you track and maintain your application’s reliability.
Uptime monitor overview

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Types of Uptime Monitors

Choose the Uptime Monitor that best fits your monitoring needs:

URL Monitors

URL monitors monitor the availability and performance of a specific URL or public endpoint.

Heartbeat Monitors

Heartbeat Monitors detect when cron jobs or scheduled tasks fail to run.

TCP Monitors

TCP Monitors monitor the availability and performance of TCP connections.

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Benefits of Uptime Monitoring

Uptime monitoring continuously checks if your applications and services are accessible and responding correctly. Typical use cases include:
  • Ensuring your marketing site returns a 200 OK
  • Verifying your documentation site loads quickly
  • Monitoring database connectivity with TCP checks
  • Confirming heartbeat endpoints are responding in your CI/CD pipeline