Website Monitoring Service
Site Detection is a straightforward website monitoring service that watches your website around the clock, tracks important availability information, and sends you an email, SMS, Slack, Teams, or Google Chat alert when downtime is detected.
You do not need a complicated monitoring platform or an IT department just to know whether your website is working.
24/7 monitoring • Email, SMS, Slack, Teams & Google Chat alerts • No monitoring software to install
A Website Monitoring Service Should Answer a Simple Question
Your website may be one of the most important ways customers find, evaluate, and contact your business. If it becomes unavailable, you want to know.
Is My Website Working?
Site Detection checks your website from outside your hosting environment so you have an independent view of whether the site is available to visitors.
If It Stops Working, Will I Know?
When Site Detection detects downtime, it sends you an email alert so you have the opportunity to investigate instead of waiting for a customer or employee to discover the problem.
What Site Detection Monitors
Site Detection is a website uptime monitoring service that continuously checks website availability, tracks response time and SSL certificate information, and sends email, SMS, Slack, Teams and Google Chat alerts when downtime is detected. It combines the core information businesses need from a website monitoring tool without forcing you to operate an enterprise observability platform.
Website Availability
Site Detection continually checks whether your website is available and responding.
Website Uptime
Keep visibility into website uptime and review availability over time.
Response Time
Track website response time and identify changes in website performance over time.
Alerts & Webhooks
Get an email, SMS, Slack, Teams, or Google Chat alert — or send a webhook to your own systems for custom integrations — when Site Detection detects your website is unavailable, the core of our website downtime monitoring.
SSL Monitoring
Keep an eye on your website’s SSL certificate with SSL certificate monitoring so certificate-related issues do not catch you by surprise — including what happens when an SSL certificate expires.
Incident Information
Review detected incidents and website availability history instead of relying on customer reports or memory.
Prefer to automate? Site Detection also offers a token-authenticated uptime monitoring API to create and manage monitors and read uptime, incidents and check data — see the API documentation.
Why Businesses Use Website Monitoring
A website can become unavailable for many reasons, and a business owner is not always the first person to notice.
Protect Customer Access
Visitors may be trying to view services, find a phone number, request an appointment, submit a form, or make a purchase. If your site is unavailable, they may simply leave.
Detect Problems Earlier
Monitoring gives you another way to discover website problems without relying on customers, employees, or your own occasional manual checks.
Understand What Happened
Availability history and incident information give you more context than simply discovering that the website is not working at the moment you happen to visit it.
How the Site Detection Website Monitoring Service Works
Getting started is straightforward and does not require installing a monitoring agent on your website.
Add Your Website
Enter the website you want Site Detection to monitor.
Site Detection Starts Monitoring
Your website is checked automatically so you do not have to keep checking it manually.
We Detect Downtime
If your website becomes unavailable, Site Detection records the incident and identifies the problem condition.
You Receive an Email
Site Detection sends an email alert so you can investigate and take appropriate action.
A Website Monitoring Tool Without Enterprise Complexity
Website monitoring software can range from simple uptime tools to massive observability platforms. Site Detection is intentionally focused on businesses that need clear website visibility without unnecessary complexity.
Complex Enterprise Monitoring
- Large infrastructure dashboards
- Application performance management
- Distributed tracing
- Extensive server-agent deployment
- DevOps-focused terminology
- Hundreds of configuration options
Site Detection
- Monitor your website
- See whether it is available
- Track uptime and response time
- Monitor SSL information
- Receive downtime alerts by email
- Review website incidents and history
Independent Website Monitoring Matters
Your hosting company may monitor its own servers and infrastructure, but that is not necessarily the same as independently checking whether visitors can successfully reach your particular website.
The Server Can Be Up While Your Website Has a Problem
Application failures, database problems, DNS issues, configuration changes, failed updates, SSL problems, or other website-specific issues can affect availability even when the hosting company itself is operating.
Site Detection Looks From the Outside
Site Detection checks the website externally. That gives you another layer of visibility into whether your website is actually responding when a visitor tries to reach it.
Who Is Site Detection Website Monitoring For?
Site Detection is designed for organizations that depend on their websites but do not necessarily need a full enterprise monitoring department or highly technical monitoring stack.
Small & Midsize Businesses
Get straightforward website monitoring without deploying a complex monitoring platform.
Local Businesses
Monitor the site customers use for services, hours, directions, phone numbers, and contact information.
Professional Services
Keep visibility into the online presence prospective clients use to research and contact your firm.
E-commerce Businesses
Know when a website availability problem may be preventing customers from browsing or buying.
Medical & Dental Practices
Monitor websites patients may rely on for office information, contact details, and appointment requests.
Agencies & Consultants
Maintain visibility into business-critical websites without adding unnecessary monitoring complexity.
Website Monitoring Helps You See Problems You Might Otherwise Miss
A website can stop responding because of problems that are completely invisible until somebody tries to visit it.
Hosting & Server Issues
Hosting outages, server failures, overloaded infrastructure, or networking problems can make a website unavailable.
Website & Application Errors
Failed updates, database problems, application errors, WordPress plugin failures, or configuration changes can affect availability.
DNS & SSL Problems
DNS configuration and SSL certificate issues can interfere with a visitor’s ability to successfully reach or use your website.
For a deeper explanation of detecting outages, see our website downtime monitoring page.
Website Monitoring Should Be Simple
Add your website, let Site Detection keep watch, and receive an email when downtime is detected. You should not need to constantly check your site yourself just to know whether it is working.
Start Monitoring Your WebsiteFrequently Asked Questions About Website Monitoring Services
What is a website monitoring service?
A website monitoring service automatically checks a website to determine whether it is available and responding. Site Detection monitors websites from outside the website itself and sends an email, SMS, Slack, Teams, or Google Chat alert when downtime is detected.
What does Site Detection monitor?
Site Detection monitors website availability and provides visibility into uptime, response time, SSL certificate information, uptime history, and detected incidents. Eligible plans can also provide public status pages.
How does Site Detection alert me when my website goes down?
Site Detection sends downtime alerts by email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat. When Site Detection detects that a monitored website is unavailable, it sends an email notification so you can investigate the problem.
Does Site Detection send SMS or text alerts?
Yes. Site Detection provides downtime alerts by email, SMS text, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat.
Do I need to install software or a WordPress plugin?
No. Site Detection monitors the website externally, so you do not need to install a monitoring agent or monitoring plugin on the website just to use Site Detection.
What is the difference between website monitoring and uptime monitoring?
Uptime monitoring focuses on whether a website remains available. Website monitoring can include uptime along with other useful website information such as response time, SSL monitoring, incident history, and related availability data. For a plain-English overview, see what is website monitoring.
Why do I need monitoring if I already have a hosting company?
Your hosting provider may monitor its own infrastructure, but that does not necessarily provide the same independent view of whether visitors can successfully reach your particular website. Website-specific problems can occur even while the host's underlying server infrastructure is operating.
Can Site Detection monitor WordPress websites?
Yes. Site Detection monitors websites externally, so it is not limited to a particular content-management platform. WordPress websites can be monitored just like other public websites — see our WordPress website monitoring page.
Is Site Detection intended only for developers or IT departments?
No. Site Detection is designed to provide straightforward website monitoring for businesses that want to know whether their website is available without operating a complicated enterprise monitoring platform.
Can a website monitoring service prevent downtime?
No monitoring service can prevent every website outage. Monitoring provides visibility so you can discover a problem, investigate the cause, and begin taking action sooner.
Why is website response time useful to monitor?
Response-time information can help you see how quickly your website responds over time and identify changes that may be worth investigating.
Why is SSL monitoring important?
SSL certificates are important to secure website connections. Monitoring SSL information helps provide additional visibility so certificate-related issues are less likely to catch you by surprise.
Know What’s Happening With Your Website
Site Detection watches your website around the clock and alerts you by email, SMS, Slack, Teams or Google Chat when downtime is detected. Get the visibility you need without the complexity you do not.
Start Monitoring Your Website