Knowledge base

Uptimia offers 5 different types of monitoring:

1. Uptime monitoring
2. Speed monitoring
3. SSL monitoring
4. Transaction monitoring
5. Real user monitoring 

We will explain how each of them is different and how it can be useful for you.

1. Uptime monitoring

It is the most basic and most commonly used type of monitoring. Uptimia uses a synthetic monitoring probe to load your website or service and wait for a response. No real browser is used there. You can monitor services on HTTP/S, DNS, UDP, TCP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols. Applications that need JavaScript support do not work with this type of monitoring.

2. Speed monitoring

It is a more advanced type of monitoring for HTTP/S services. Uptimia uses a real Google Chrome browser to fully load your website and check how fast it loads. You can get alerted in case your website goes down or if it gets too slow to load (depending on your selected threshold). This type of monitoring is also useful if your website need JavaScript support to work.

3. SSL monitoring

As the name suggests, this type of monitoring will monitor the health of your SSL certificate. You will get alerted in case there is a problem with your certificate or if the expiration date is about to come.

4. Transaction monitoring

This is the most advanced kind of monitoring we offer. Instead of just loading a single URL, our probes can follow multiple-steps defined by you. It is very useful to constantly monitor the most important parts of your website, such as sign in or sign up forms. 

5. Real user monitoring

This monitoring type requires you to install a little snippet of code to your website. Once it is there, Uptimia will start receiving data from the visitors of your website. This type of monitoring is very useful to find out if your website is working well in all parts of the world, as well as for all browsers and platforms. We can also alert you if we suddenly stop receiving data (website potentially down), or if the average loading speed suddenly gets too slow (potential performance problems). Alerting if there are too many JavaScript errors is also possible.