One-time reachability check
- Answers whether your site responds right now — the fast “is this down?” question.
Uptime monitoring
Website Uptime Monitoring That Shows When Your Site Goes Down.
Paste your URL for a free reachability check right now — then keep watching so you know about downtime before a customer emails you a screenshot.
Not just a status badge.
A history of what actually happened.
Works with WordPress, Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow, Next.js, React, and more.
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What uptime monitoring watches
A green dashboard doesn't mean a reliable week
Sites can pass a reachability check right now and still fail during peak hours, a DNS hiccup, or a bad deploy at 2 a.m. Uptime monitoring keeps probing on a schedule so repeat failures show up as history — not a mystery your customers report first.
What website uptime monitoring detects
- ReachabilityWhether your homepage responds when someone visits.
- Response statusFailed responses, timeouts, and bad redirects.
- History over timeRepeat failures, not just one lucky refresh.
- Lead protectionDowntime on the pages that drive calls and bookings.
- Check cadenceScheduled probes on your plan's interval.
- Broader contextUptime sits next to speed and SEO in one view.
How it works
Check now. Then keep watching.
Check reachability
See whether your site responds right now — no guessing.
Connect monitoring
Scheduled probes watch for outages on your plan's interval.
Know before customers do
Get the history when something fails — not just a single refresh.
Real moments
Sound familiar?
- “My site was down overnight and I didn't know.”
- “It works for me, but a customer says it's down.”
- “Hosting felt flaky during our sale.”
- “I only find out from an angry email.”
Uptime history usually explains what a single refresh can't.
Why history matters
A status check answers now. Monitoring answers how reliable.
A one-time check tells you the site responded at this moment. Uptime monitoring keeps probing on a schedule, so a flaky host or a bad deploy shows up as a pattern — not a mystery your customers report first.
One-time check vs uptime monitoring
Uptime monitoring
- Keeps probing on a schedule and surfaces repeat failures, flaky hosting, and outages that clear before you look.
Frequently asked questions
Is this site down?
Run the reachability check above on your domain. It probes whether your homepage responds successfully right now — the fastest way to answer the question without guessing.
How often is uptime checked?
On paid plans, Commit Happens probes your monitored URL on a recurring schedule and keeps an uptime history. The free reachability check above is a one-time snapshot — not ongoing monitoring.
What counts as downtime?
When your monitored URL fails to respond successfully during a scheduled probe — timeouts, connection failures, or error responses depending on configuration.
Does uptime monitoring catch slow pages?
Uptime focuses on reachability. Slow pages are covered by performance monitoring — a site can be up and still frustratingly sluggish.
What is website uptime monitoring?
Uptime monitoring repeatedly checks whether your site responds successfully and records that history over time — so you know when it went down, how long it lasted, and when it recovered.
Why is one successful page load not uptime monitoring?
A single refresh only proves the site responded at that moment. Monitoring builds a trail of probes so intermittent hosting issues, DNS hiccups, and overnight outages do not depend on you happening to look.
What happens when a site goes down?
Commit Happens records the failed probe in your uptime history and can notify you when a monitored URL stops responding — so you can investigate before customers send angry emails.
How is uptime monitoring different from manual checking?
Manual checks depend on you remembering to refresh. Uptime monitoring runs in the background, keeps history, and surfaces repeat failures you would miss between visits.
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Scheduled probes catch outages the moment they happen — not whenever you remember to look.
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