Uptime monitoring

Uptime monitoring answers the one question analytics cannot: is the site actually up? Tinylytics runs these checks on Thunder Clap, our own monitoring platform, and new monitors are provisioned there. It is included on paid plans. Enable it from a site’s Uptime tab.

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

<span class="tinylytics_uptime"></span>

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.