Integration · Push notifications
Uptime alerts with ntfy
Push alerts to the ntfy app on your phone or desktop, from ntfy.sh or your own ntfy server.
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What you get
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Urgent when it matters
Outages arrive at the highest priority with a siren tag, recoveries at default priority and warnings in between.
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Your own server
Use ntfy.sh or run ntfy yourself, with an access token for protected topics.
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Tap to open
A tap on the notification opens the incident or the monitor in Uptimecheck.
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Only confirmed outages
A failed check is repeated before an incident opens, so a single blip never sends an alert.
How to connect ntfy
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Pick a topic name that is hard to guess and subscribe to it in the ntfy app.
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Open Alert channels in the sidebar and choose Add channel.
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Pick ntfy and enter the Topic address, such as
https://ntfy.sh/northwind-alerts-7f3k. For a protected topic, add an Access token. -
Choose Add channel, then Send test.
Included on every plan, from Start to Business.
What arrives
- Outages, once a second check confirms them
- Recoveries, with how long the monitor was down
- Slow responses, and when they are fast again
- TLS certificate and domain expiry reminders
- DNS record changes and server restarts
- New broken links, mixed content and page speed drops
- New problems with a domain’s email setup
- A test alert whenever you choose Send test
ntfy now
Checkout is back up
https://northwind.shop/checkout Recovered at 03:19 UTC · down for 7 min
Priority: default
ntfy now
Checkout is down
https://northwind.shop/checkout HTTP 502 · confirmed from Stockholm · since 03:12 UTC
Priority: max · tap opens the incident
Questions
Is a topic on ntfy.sh private?
No. On ntfy.sh anyone who knows a topic’s name can read it, so pick a name that is hard to guess, or run your own server and protect the topic with an access token.
Can I use a self-hosted ntfy server?
Yes. Enter the topic’s address on your server, which must answer over HTTPS, and the access token if the topic is protected.
What does the notification say?
The title says what happened, such as “Checkout is down”, and the message has the address, the cause, where it was confirmed and since when.
What if an alert can’t be delivered?
Uptimecheck retries a failed alert five times over about 40 minutes, and stops at once when the service says the address is gone for good. The channel then shows Not delivering with the reason, on the alert channels page and on the monitors that use it. A passing Send test clears it.
Is it included on every plan?
Yes. Every alert channel is on every plan, from Start to Business; SMS uses credits (included on Professional and Business, bought packs on Start). Plans differ in how many alert channels you can add: 25 on Start, 75 on Professional and 250 on Business.
Works well with
All integrations-
Pushover
Outages as high-priority Pushover alerts that break through quiet hours. How it works : Pushover -
Push notifications
Free lock-screen alerts on iPhone, Android and computers, to whoever is on call. How it works : Push notifications -
Telegram
Press Start in our bot’s chat, or add it to a group. No token to create. How it works : Telegram
Downtime is obsolete.
Set up your first monitor in under a minute, or look around the live demo first.
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