How often does PageWarden check my site?

Check intervals are plan-based. Free checks every 30 minutes, Hobby every 5 minutes, and Starter and Pro are configurable down to 60 seconds. PageWarden runs the checks for you on a schedule, with no agent to install.

How does PageWarden avoid false alarms?

A retryable failure is retried once and re-checked from multiple regions, where a quorum decides, before an incident is recorded. A brief blip does not page you.

Uptime monitoring

Uptime monitoring you can trust

Q: What is the difference between degraded and down?

Degraded means the site responded but slowly. Down means a bad status code, a timeout, or a DNS or connection failure. Every check is classified up, degraded or down.

PageWarden checks your site on a schedule, classifies every result up, degraded or down, and confirms a failure from multiple regions before it pages you. Uptime monitoring is on every plan, including Free.

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PageWarden monitor detail for a website, showing current status, 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day uptime, SSL certificate and domain expiry, and checks from six regions. — Everything one monitor is watching

How checks work

Up, degraded, or down on every check

PageWarden runs HTTP and HTTPS checks on a schedule and classifies each result. Up is a healthy response. Degraded means the site answered but slowly. Down is a bad status code, a timeout, or a DNS or connection failure.

Redirects are followed, and checks use a real browser-like user agent so they are not blocked. Check intervals are plan-based, down to 60 seconds on Starter and Pro.

Checks as often as every 60 seconds on Starter and Pro

GET https://example.com200

240ms · checked 14s ago

Confirmed, not noisy

Confirmed from multiple regions

Before PageWarden records a retryable down, it re-checks from multiple regions and a quorum decides. A transient or blocked failure is retried once, so a momentary blip does not open a false incident.

Multi-region confirmation protects every plan. Starter and Pro add continuous per-region scanning with per-region uptime history.

PageWarden multi-region checks: one website verified from six regions worldwide on a world map, each region reporting up with its response time, plus a per-region response-time chart. — One check, verified from six regions

When it breaks

One clean incident per outage

Two consecutive failed checks open an incident, dated at the first failure. Two consecutive successes resolve it at the recovery time.

You get one incident per outage, with the failing target, the latest error and the in-window results, not a separate page for every failed check. Incidents can be acknowledged.

PageWarden incident detail showing an ongoing outage with the affected regions, an AI root-cause hypothesis, and the recent check results that failed. — An incident with its plain-English diagnosis

Downtime alerts

Told the moment it goes down

Notifications fire on incident open and recovery, with strict no-duplicate sends. Email is on every plan and leads with what happened and when.

Slack, Discord, Telegram and webhooks on paid plans

Your site checkout.acme.io has an issue

The uptime check on https://checkout.acme.io just failed.

What happened: HTTP 503 Service Unavailable
When: 2026-06-18 14:32 UTC

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Quick setup

Set up uptime monitoring in two minutes

No agent to install and nothing to run on your server. Add a URL and PageWarden starts watching.

Add your URL

Paste the address you want watched. PageWarden resolves it and runs the first check right away.

Pick an interval and regions

Choose how often to check, down to 60 seconds on Starter and Pro, and which regions confirm a failure.

Route your alerts

Send incident and recovery notices to email on any plan, or to Slack, Discord, Telegram and webhooks on a paid plan.

PLANS

Uptime monitoring is included on every plan, including the free plan. Configurable intervals down to 60 seconds and continuous per-region scanning are on Starter and Pro.

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Questions

Uptime Monitoring, answered

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