Enable uptime monitoring for a site

Manage GPL can check whether each of your sites is up every 5 minutes and email you when one goes down (and again when it comes back). Monitoring is off by default and enabled per-site.

Turn it on

1. Open the site's detail page and click the Uptime sub-tab.
2. Flip the Monitor this site toggle from Disabled to Enabled.

That's it. Within 5 minutes you'll see the first check's result in the incident log. The check is a simple HTTP HEAD request to the site's URL — lightweight and low-noise for your server.

Check frequency and retention

• Checks run every 5 minutes.
• Each check records: timestamp, HTTP status code, response time, up/down state, and (if down) the error message.
• Individual check rows are retained for 90 days.
• Incidents (downtime events) are retained for 180 days after they close.

How an incident is opened

An incident is a period of consecutive "down" checks. The moment a check returns a non-OK status, Manage GPL opens an incident. You get an email on the first down state. If the next check is still down, the incident stays open; when a check comes back up, the incident is closed and you get a "recovered" email.

Transient single-check failures (one check fails but the next one succeeds) still open and close an incident, but only very briefly. You'll see them in the incident history as sub-5-minute blips.

Email throttling

To avoid inbox-flooding during an outage, you can cap the number of down-emails per hour per incident. Default is 2 per hour, max 5. First down always emails immediately; subsequent reminders are paced out. Up/recovered emails are never throttled — you always get notified when a site is back.

Change the cap from the uptime settings card in your account page.

Reading the uptime dashboard

Each monitored site has an uptime tab with:

• Current status (up/down)
• Uptime percentage over the last 24h / 7d / 30d
• Average response time
• Incident log (open and closed)

For a cross-site view, go to the Uptime tab in the sidebar.

Plan requirement

Uptime monitoring is a paid feature (Developer and Agency). Free plans can see the settings page but not enable the toggle.