OnlineOrNot

Sydney, Australia
2018
  |  By Max Rozen
Incidents are a stressful time for your team: your service isn't working the way you expect and your customers/stakeholders want to know what's going on. The last thing you want to do is let your team improvise everything when it comes to responding to incidents. Google's own SRE book has great overall tips for incident management, part of which involves "develop(ing) and document(ing) your incident management procedures in advance", which this article dives into.
  |  By Max Rozen
Over December and January I focused on OnlineOrNot's public API, making it possible to see what OnlineOrNot saw when it detected a failing uptime check, as well as fixing bugs and cleaning up tech debt across all of OnlineOrNot (it's getting faster and faster to release updates).
  |  By Max Rozen
You might be thinking “building HTTP API docs from scratch? in 2024? wtf?”, and you’re probably right. After all redoc has been around since 2016, and there are hundreds of “generate beautiful documentation from your OpenAPI spec” startups around, some even use AI now. To be honest, I didn’t even know it was possible to do-it-yourself when I started looking into it.
  |  By Max Rozen
It'll soon be the third anniversary of publicly launching OnlineOrNot on Twitter, and I often get asked what I did to get my first paying customers - so I felt like sharing. I assume when most folks ask this that they're looking for the one thing they can do to finally start getting paid customers. Let me be clear: it's never just one thing.
  |  By Max Rozen
Over October and November I focused on adding new features to Status Pages and making it easier to iterate on new features, as well as fixing bugs across all of OnlineOrNot.
  |  By Max Rozen
If you don't know what a "cron job" is or how the cron job expression syntax works (and at this point are too afraid to ask), you're in the right place. In this article, we'll dive into what is a cron job, how they work, and the details that often get overlooked, like cron job schedule syntax and common cron job errors.
  |  By Max Rozen
Coming back from August holidays, I felt the need to take a hard look at what OnlineOrNot does, and keep improving it.
  |  By Max Rozen
Imagine you're sitting in your office, and you start noticing emails coming in asking if you'd like to buy your domain. "Huh, that's weird, I already own that domain" you think to yourself. A few more emails come in, and they're getting past the spam filter, so you decide to double check your domain manager. Doubt starts creeping into your mind, you start panicking, and you frantically scroll down to where the domain should be, and... It's gone.
  |  By Max Rozen
Ever wonder how to check if a website is still working, without having to load up the website and manually check every few minutes? In this article, we'll go over the various ways to check if a website is online.
  |  By Max Rozen
In case you missed it, AWS experienced an outage or "elevated error rates" on their AWS Lambda APIs in the us-east-1 region between 18:52 UTC and 20:15 UTC on June 13, 2023. If this sounds familiar, it's because it's almost a replay of what happened on December 7, 2021, although that outage was significantly more severe and took longer to restore.

OnlineOrNot monitors your website, letting you know instantly if anything goes wrong.

OnlineOrNot is an website monitoring service. In particular, it monitors whether your site is online, or not (hence the name). It allows you to continuously monitor any website or API server. It notifies you instantly in the case of any problems - whether that's a timeout, 4xx error, or 5xx error.

Monitor With Confidence:

  • Configurable Alerts: You don't want alerts for sites that aren't really down for everyone. Configure retries, and how many minutes of downtime to wait before sending an alert.
  • Fast Alerts: Getting alerts ages after your site goes down isn't great. We use email deliverability best-practices so your alerts get delivered, fast.
  • Alerts where you need them: Get notified when your site goes down, and when it comes back via Email and Slack. Alerts via SMS and phone call coming soon!
  • Text Search: Want to detect when your page stops showing certain text? OnlineOrNot can search your page for text to catch error pages that don't send error codes.
  • Global Monitoring: Monitor from any one of 10 major cities around the world. Check out our supported regions.
  • Bring the whole team: Monitoring is your whole team's job, not the responsibility of just one person. Bring your whole team at no extra cost.

Everything you need to be sure that your website is running smoothly.