If you earn daily income from your website, if you have a website that is visited every day in a corporate structure, or if you sell on an e-commerce site, you want to know instantly whether your website is up and running. If your website cannot be reached, you continue to lose money and, more importantly, you continue to lose reputation in the eyes of your visitors.

Experienced website managers know that websites that are up and running can be down at any time for certain reasons. Because they have definitely experienced such a thing before. In such cases, it is very important for the webmaster to know when the website is down and when it will be accessible.

For all these reasons, we wanted to list 7 different methods with which you can check the uptime of your website and check whether your website is accessible instantly. While some of these methods provide instant control, you can constantly check whether your website is openable with some tools.

Manual Check (Browser or Command Prompt)

a) Checking Using Browser

You can check whether the website is opening by entering it in your browser.

If the site is not opening, you can try from a different device or internet connection to understand the source of the problem.

b) Checking Using Command Prompt

Check with ping command.

Open Terminal or Command Prompt and run the following command:

ping example.com

If the site is working, you will get a response from the server. If there is no response, the server may be unreachable.

Checking HTTP Response with Curl Command

Run the following command in the terminal:

curl -I https://example.com

If the HTTP response code is 200 OK, the site is working. If you don't get a response, the site may be down.

Controlling Network Access with the Traceroute or Tracert Command

For Windows:

tracert example.com

tracert example.com

traceroute example.com

This command shows at what point the connection to the website was broken.

Server-Side Check (With Cronjob)

If you are working on a Linux-based server, you can periodically check uptime with cron jobs.

Create a Bash script:

#!/bin/bash

if curl -s --head  --request GET https://example.com | grep "200 OK" > /dev/null; then 
  echo "Website is up"
else
  echo "Website is down" | mail -s "Website Down Alert" your-email@example.com
fi

You can run this script at certain intervals by adding it to a cronjob.

Checking with Google Chrome DevTools

In Chrome, open DevTools by pressing F12 or Ctrl + Shift + I.

You can examine the HTTP responses and error codes coming to the site by going to the Network tab.

Automatic Monitoring and Notification

a) Free Monitoring with RobotAlp

You can check the uptime status of your website every 3 minutes for free using. RobotAlp

b) Professional Monitoring with Pingdom

Pingdom offers more detailed analysis and can check your website uptime from different regions.

c) Google Cloud Monitoring / AWS CloudWatch

If your website is hosted on a cloud server (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), you can check uptime with the monitoring tools offered by these services.

Uptime status of your website with OpenSource Tools

Below are some open source tools and methods that you can use to monitor website uptime:

a.Uptime Kuma

b.Prometheus & Grafana

c.Netdata

d.StatusCake (Open Source)

e.Healthchecks.io (Open Source)

Apart from these tools, you can check the Uptime Monitoring tool to learn the uptime status of your website instantly. Just type your website name in the toolbar. You can see the uptime status in 21 locations around the world instantly.

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