Online store
The checkout has to work, not just load
A transaction check through cart and checkout plus a keyword on the product page catch failures a 200 status code hides.
Website monitoring service
Website monitoring service with 14 check types from 300+ locations
HostTracker is a website monitoring service that checks your site from 300+ checkpoints in 158 cities, as often as every minute, and re-checks a failure from other locations before it alerts anyone. One account covers 14 check types, from uptime and page content to SSL and domain expiry, blacklists, page speed, APIs, databases and servers.
30-day trial · 100 monitors · checks every minute · no credit card
- Trusted since 2004
- 500,000+ websites monitored
- 300+ checkpoints worldwide
How a failed check becomes a confirmed alert
14 check types, one accountUptime, content, expiry dates, blacklists, speed, APIs, databases and servers share one set of alerts.
Confirmed before anyone is pagedA failed check is re-run from other locations, and a quorum decides whether the site is down.
Bring your monitors with youPaste your current service's export, or a list of URLs, and the importer recreates the checks.
How a website monitoring service decides your site is down
One failed request proves little: the route from one checkpoint can drop while every visitor still gets through. What a service does after that first failure decides whether you can trust its alerts.
ONE MONITOR, CREATED THROUGH THE API
POST /monitor { "type": "http", "url": "https://example.com", "interval": 60, "locations": { "pools": ["allworld"] }, "recheck": { "strategy": "downFullAgreement" } }
Checked from the locations you pick
Each monitor carries its own checkpoints, drawn from 300+ in 158 cities, and runs as often as every minute on the trial, Complete, Business and Enterprise plans.
Re-checked before anyone is alerted
A failure triggers the same check from other locations and a quorum decides - the majority by default, or every location, or a minimum number of failing ones.
Sent where each person will read it
Every contact has its own channel and delay, from immediately to 24 hours, so the person on call hears first. How availability checks work
Check types
14 check types in one website monitoring tool
Many costly outages leave the server answering: a certificate lapses, a domain runs out, a checkout breaks. These are the checks one account can run, and where each runs from.
Check
What it watches
Runs from
Requests the page like a visitor: status code, response time, redirects, TLS, and an optional keyword that must or must not appear.
Checkpoints you pick
ICMP reachability and round-trip time of a host or device.
Checkpoints you pick
A TCP connection to a host and port, optionally over TLS with a banner match.
Checkpoints you pick
Parses the JSON, XML or text response, selects a value and asserts on it.
Checkpoints you pick
A multi-step journey in a real browser - sign-in, form, checkout - asserted step by step.
Browser checkpoints you pick
Loads the page in a real browser, times every element, fails over a budget.
Browser checkpoints you pick
Keywords matched against the browser-rendered page, JavaScript content included.
Browser checkpoints you pick
The served certificate, with a warning before it expires.
HostTracker's network, every 6 hours
Registration expiry over whois and RDAP, with a warning before it lapses.
HostTracker's network, every 6 hours
A domain or IP address looked up in DNS blacklists.
HostTracker's network, every 6 hours
Your URLs against Google's Web Risk lists of phishing and malware sites.
HostTracker's network, every 12 hours
SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or Firebird: connect, run a query, compare the result with a threshold.
HostTracker's network
CPU, RAM, disk or a Windows performance counter, read by a small probe you host.
HostTracker's network
A numeric OID from routers, switches, UPS units or printers, over SNMP v1, v2c or v3.
HostTracker's network
Certificate, domain, blacklist and Web Risk checks can also be switched on inside a website monitor. Which types each plan includes is in the pricing table below.
Who it is for
What people set up first
One account fits a single shop or an agency with many client sites.
Agency
Many client sites, one account
Each client gets their own monitors, contacts and status page; shared access shows a client only what you grant.
SaaS and APIs
An API that answers, and answers correctly
API checks assert on the response body, webhooks push state changes to your systems, and the REST API manages monitors from code.
Hosting and IT
The machines behind the site
Ping, port, SNMP and server-load checks watch servers and network gear with the same alerts as the website.
Site owners
The renewals nobody remembers
SSL and domain expiry checks warn before anything runs out; blacklist and Web Risk checks flag a domain that lands on a list.
One website
Every check type for a single site
The Complete plan covers one website and its subdomains with every check type, for $9 a month. Fair use: all monitors belong to one website and its subdomains.
What to compare
Where website monitoring services actually differ
Sending a request and an email is the easy part. These decide whether a team still trusts the alerts a month later.
An alert you can act on without double-checking
A service that pages someone for one checkpoint's network problem teaches the team to ignore it. HostTracker alerts only when rechecks from other locations agree.
Failures that still answer 200
An expired certificate or a broken checkout leaves the server up. Seeing those takes more than an uptime ping, so all 14 check types share one account and one set of contacts.
Answers for the people who ask
Every plan includes status pages on your own domain with subscriber alerts, and uptime reports go out by email, so nobody has to ask you during an outage.
Plans and prices
What website monitoring costs
Plans differ in monitors, interval and check types. The figures come from the live plan catalog.
| Complete | Webmaster | Business | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $9 a month or $99 a year | $14 a month or $149 a year | $29 a month or $299 a year |
| Monitors | 10, all on one website and its subdomains | 10 | 25 |
| Fastest check | 1 minute | 5 minutes | 1 minute |
| Check types | All 14 monitor types | 9 of 14 monitor types (no API, transaction, page speed, server load or SNMP) | 13 of 14 monitor types (no SNMP) |
| Status pages | 1 status page, custom domain included | 2 status pages, custom domain included | 5 status pages, custom domain included |
| SMS and voice credit | $1 included each month | $2 included each month | $5 included each month |
Every account starts with the 30-day trial: 100 monitors, checks every minute, no credit card. Enterprise plans and the full feature lists are on the pricing page.
30-day money-back on your first payment · your price stays while your subscription stays active
Switching services
Move your monitors over in one paste
The importer reads what your current service exports and creates the matching checks.
Export from the service you use now
UptimeRobot, Pingdom, StatusCake, Better Stack, Site24x7 and Uptime Kuma exports are read directly; any other service works through a plain list of URLs.
Paste it into the New monitor panel
HTTP, keyword, ping and port monitors map onto HostTracker checks; anything that has no equivalent is listed with the reason, never dropped silently.
Run both side by side
The 30-day trial fits 100 monitors: compare alerts on your own sites before you cancel anything.
THE IMPORTER READS
export UptimeRobot Pingdom StatusCake Site24x7 Better Stack Uptime Kuma or URLs https://example.com https://example.com/cart
Start the 30-day trial first (100 monitors, no credit card) and confirm your email - the importer opens once the address is confirmed.
Compared one by one: UptimeRobot, Pingdom, StatusCake, Better Stack, Site24x7, Uptime Kuma. HostTracker is not affiliated with any company named on this page; product names are trademarks of their owners.
Every layer of your stack, monitored
Websites, servers, APIs, certificates. One check type per page, the same locations, alerts and reports behind all of them.
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The buyer's guide
Choosing a website monitoring service
Every chapter opens in place, so the page stays short.
What a website monitoring service does
A website monitoring service checks your site from outside your infrastructure, on a schedule, from the places your visitors come from. It sees what a visitor sees - a timeout, an error page, a certificate warning - rather than what the server believes about itself, so it catches failures server-side tools miss, such as DNS, routing or an expired certificate. A hostname that resolves to the wrong address is one such failure; DNS monitoring compares every answer with the addresses you expect.
The useful output is the decision after the check: a real outage told apart from a network blip, the right person alerted, and a record of how long the site was down and from where.
How to choose a website monitoring service: eight questions
- Where do the checks run from? HostTracker: 300+ checkpoints in 158 cities, chosen per monitor.
- Is a failure confirmed before the alert? HostTracker: rechecked from other locations, a quorum decides.
- What can it see besides a down server? HostTracker: 14 check types, from certificates to checkouts.
- How often on the plan you would buy? HostTracker: every minute on Complete, Business and Enterprise; every 5 minutes on Webmaster.
- Which channels and delays can each person have? HostTracker: voice call, SMS, chat apps, PagerDuty and webhooks, each with its own delay.
- Are status pages included? HostTracker: on every plan, on your own domain.
- Can you automate it and bring your monitors? HostTracker: a REST API and an importer.
- What does the plan that fits cost? Compare the price for your number of sites at your interval, not the cheapest tier.
Website monitoring service, software or tool?
Website monitoring software you install yourself: a self-hosted dashboard such as Uptime Kuma (HostTracker is not affiliated with it) runs on a server you maintain, checks from that one place, and goes quiet if that server fails together with the site. A website monitoring tool in the narrow sense is a one-off check, like HostTracker's instant HTTP check or website down checker: an answer now, no schedule, no alert.
A website monitoring service is the hosted, scheduled version: checks from the provider's network on a timer, failures confirmed, someone told. That is what a business site needs; the instant tools are what you open once an alert has arrived.
Setting up website monitoring in five steps
- Create an account; the 30-day trial starts at once.
- Add a website monitor for the home page and the page that earns money, or import your current monitors.
- Switch on the certificate, domain and blacklist checks inside the website monitor.
- Add contacts: email for everyone, a voice call or SMS for whoever is on call.
- Publish a status page for the people who usually ask whether the site is down.
Key takeaways
Key takeaways
- HostTracker checks a website from 300+ checkpoints in 158 cities, as often as every minute on the trial, Complete, Business and Enterprise plans; Webmaster checks every 5 minutes.
- A failed check is re-run from other locations and a quorum decides before any alert: the majority by default, or every location, or a minimum number of failing locations.
- One account runs 14 check types: website, ping, port, API, transaction, page speed, rendered content, SSL certificate, domain expiry, DNS blacklists, Web Risk, database, server load and SNMP.
- Alerts go by email, SMS, voice call, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Discord, Viber, Mattermost, PagerDuty, Pushover, Pushbullet, browser push and webhooks, with a delay per contact from immediately to 24 hours.
- Complete costs $9 a month for one website with every check type; every account starts with a 30-day trial of 100 monitors and no credit card.
Frequently Asked Questions
A service that checks your site from outside, on a schedule, the way a visitor reaches it, and alerts you when a check fails. HostTracker checks from 300+ checkpoints in 158 cities, with 14 check types from uptime and page content to SSL and domain expiry, APIs, databases and servers.
Compare what happens after a failed check: where checks run from, whether a failure is confirmed from other locations before the alert, what it sees beyond a down server, the interval on the plan you would buy, and the alert channels. The 30-day trial lets you test the answers on your own sites.
As often as every minute on the trial and on the Complete, Business and Enterprise plans; Webmaster checks every 5 minutes. You set the interval per monitor. Certificate, domain and blacklist checks run every 6 hours and Web Risk every 12 hours, because those facts change slowly.
Unless you switch rechecking off, a failed check is not reported on its own: HostTracker re-runs it from other locations and a quorum decides - the majority by default, or every location, or a minimum number of failing ones. The email alert lists the locations that confirmed the failure.
Email, SMS, voice call, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Discord, Viber, Mattermost, PagerDuty, Pushover, Pushbullet, browser push notifications and webhooks. Each contact has its own delay - immediately, after 3, 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or after 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours.
Complete costs $9 a month or $99 a year for one website and its subdomains, with every check type; Webmaster $14 a month for 10 monitors checked every 5 minutes; Business $29 a month for 25 monitors checked every minute. Enterprise plans cover larger fleets. Every account starts with a 30-day trial of 100 monitors, no credit card. 30-day money-back on your first payment.
Yes. The importer in the New monitor panel reads the export of UptimeRobot, Pingdom, StatusCake, Better Stack, Site24x7 and Uptime Kuma; any other service works through a plain list of URLs. Anything without an equivalent is listed with the reason, never dropped silently. HostTracker is not affiliated with any of these companies.
Both. A new account starts with a 30-day trial: 100 monitors, checks every minute, no credit card. The Free plan keeps 2 monitors checked every 30 minutes - enough for a personal site, not for one a business depends on.
30-day trial - 100 monitors - no credit card
Add your website and see the first checks come in
Create an account, add the site and choose who gets alerted. The checks run on the interval you set, from the locations you pick among 300+.
- Trusted since 2004
- 500,000+ websites monitored
- 300+ checkpoints worldwide
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