# Uptime monitoring Uptime monitoring answers the one question analytics cannot: is the site actually up? Tinylytics runs these checks on [Thunder Clap](https://thunderclap.app), our own monitoring platform, and new monitors are provisioned there. It is included on paid plans. Enable it from a site's **Uptime** tab. ![Uptime tab](docs/uptime.png) Checks come from several regions, and that matters more than the raw frequency. A single region having a bad morning is not your site going down, so Thunder Clap waits until enough regions agree before marking the site down and emailing you. While a region is unsure or reporting a failure, it rechecks every minute until the picture is clear. Ultra accounts can set the interval to 1, 2, 5, or 10 minutes, or leave it on Auto. The default is a check every 10 minutes. If a site stays down for seven days, monitoring pauses itself — at that point the alert has been received and there is nothing left to tell you. Resume it from the dashboard when the site is back. ## Reading the Uptime page Three cards sit at the top: **30-day uptime**, **SSL**, and **Domain**. Below them, **Regional monitoring** shows how each region sees you, and clicking a region opens its detail — Ultra also gets response times here, which is where you notice a site getting slower before it starts failing. **Downtime History** is underneath, and pausing or removing the monitor is on the same page. **SSL** watches your certificate. You get one alert as expiry approaches, and the page marks a certificate as expiring soon when it has less than 30 days left. You also hear from us if a certificate looks wrong, and again when it renews successfully, which is the quiet confirmation that your automated renewal did its job. **Domain** tracks the registration expiry of the domain itself and shows it on the same card. This one is a display rather than an alert, so it is worth glancing at occasionally — losing a domain is much harder to undo than losing a certificate. Email covers confirmed downtime, recovery along with how long you were out, certificate problems and renewals, and the seven-day automatic pause. ## Showing uptime on your site If you want the number on your own pages, the embed script will fill it in: ``` https://tinylytics.app/embed/YOUR_EMBED_CODE.js?uptime ``` ```html ``` You can combine it with the other widget parameters on the same URL, as in `?hits&uptime`. ## When the dashboard is wrong If we report your site as down and you can load it perfectly, a firewall is almost always eating the checks. Allow this user agent through: ``` Tinylytics Uptime Monitor/1.0 ``` On Cloudflare, add a WAF skip rule for that user agent so the probes are not challenged.