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Managing monitors has meant one of two things: the dashboard, or writing your own API calls. There is now a third. The official UptimeRobot CLI is live on npm, and it drives every monitor, incident, and status page in your account from the shell you already have open. It is free, open source under Apache 2.0, and works on every plan including the free one.

If your API answers on QUERY, you can now point a monitor straight at it. QUERY joins HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and OPTIONS in the HTTP method list for HTTP, keyword, and API monitors. You can find it under the “Advanced settings” when editing or adding your monitor. QUERY became a standard in June 2026 as RFC 10008. It’s safe, idempotent, and it carries a request body.