We've seen many reports of GitHub Actions workflows not triggering at the scheduled time. In fact, in the official upptime/upptime repository, workflows scheduled for every five minutes run as slower as once every hour. This blog post is a
Upptime is a free and open-source uptime monitor and status website service. It's very different from other status-page services because it doesn't require a server — it's all powered by GitHub: Using GitHub Actions, users can schedule work…
To use Upptime as an uptime monitor and status website generator, you start by creating a repository using the template on GitHub. You can click on the following link to generate a repository using the template: Create a new repository from…
Yes, Upptime is 100% free and open-source, with all components licensed under the permissive MIT License. You are probably running the website on a non-root domain, for example at https://user.github.io/repo/, where user is your GitHub user…
The .upptimerc.yml file is used as the central configuration for Upptime, with this syntax: A GitHub repository is used as the "source of truth" for your uptime logs, and the static site uses the GitHub API and fetches data from this reposi…
Using notifications, you can alert your team when an endpoint goes down or experiences degraded performance. To add notifications, you have to add environment variables as GitHub repository secrets (Settings -> Secrets -> Actions) and add E…
You can use the Shields.io service with the API endpoint generated by your repository's api directory. For example, the URL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/upptime/upptime/master/api/google/uptime.json has the following JSON schema: In th…
Upptime consists of several packages written in TypeScript and Svelte/Sapper, which are consumed by the template repository. This package includes the uptime monitor that sends network requests to ensure that your endpoints are online. It a…
Upptime helps you set up scheduled maintenance times by opening issues manually. To create a new scheduled maintenance, create a new issue in your Upptime repository and add the label maintenance to it. The issue body should include an HTML…
By default, uptime is checked every 5 minutes and response time graphs and endpoints are updated every 24 hours. You can also manually trigger an update, for example after setting up your repository. Manual triggers are powered by workflow