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UptimeRobot has acquired IsDown
For 15 years, UptimeRobot has answered one question for millions of people: is my site up? Today we’re taking on a related question that’s become just as important: is everything my site depends on up? We’ve acquired IsDown, which tracks the status of more than 6,000 cloud and SaaS providers in one place. Here are ...
Your AI agent can now set up uptime monitoring. No signup required.
We’re happy to introduce you to the first agentic uptime monitoring setup! Now your AI agents can continue their coding, testing, and deploy flows into setting up the monitors, including a free account. The agent submits your site’s URL and your email, you confirm with one click in the email you receive, and you have a ...
Inside the .de DNS Outage: Real-World Data from UptimeRobot
On the evening of May 5th, 2026, large parts of the German web briefly went dark. For a few hours, anyone trying to load a .de address through a major DNS resolver got errors instead of websites. Bahn.de, Amazon.de, and Spiegel.de were among the affected. Major brands like Telekom, DHL, and Sparkassen felt it too, ...
8 Software Engineering Newsletters for Maximum Learning
The tech world is anything but static, and staying up to date on the newest developments is an important part of every software developer’s technique for keeping their knowledge and skills competitive. But, it can be both exhausting and time-consuming to do all of this research and reading yourself. If only there was a way ...
Inside the Cloudflare Outage: Real-World Data from UptimeRobot
On November 18th, 2025, a large Cloudflare outage briefly broke big chunks of the internet. For several hours, users around the world were greeted with 500 errors, including platforms like X, ChatGPT, Spotify, and many others that run behind Cloudflare’s network. At UptimeRobot, we sit in a slightly unusual spot during events like this: So ...
Introducing the UptimeRobot v3 API
As you may have noticed, we released the latest version of the UptimeRobot API a few weeks ago. Don’t worry, the v2 will remain available; however, it will no longer receive support or updates. New features will be added only to v3. Built on a RESTful architecture, v3 unlocks more flexibility, cleaner workflows, and expanded ...