Website monitoring with WhatsApp alerts

Uptimia checks your sites, certificates and checkout flows from outside your network and sends every confirmed failure straight to your WhatsApp. There is nothing to install and nothing to configure — you type your phone number, and the alerts start with the next failed check.

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Setup guideAdding and verifying a number, step by step Open the guide

Alerts in an app you muted

Dedicated ops apps assume you’ll adopt them — install it, allow its notifications, remember it exists on a Friday night. The outage doesn’t wait for that habit to form.

Alert in a dedicated ops app

Installed in January. Muted by February.

Bookings down
19:26 · alert fired
alert: filtered
The app you never open
badge #47, next to the unused ones

The alert reached an app that lost the battle for your attention months ago. Its icon wears a badge — so do nine others. Nothing about the phone in your hand looks urgent.

Alert on WhatsApp

Delivered where your thumb already is.

Bookings down
19:26 · template message sent
push · like any chat
Your WhatsApp
the app you answer in minutes

No adoption curve, no new habit to build. The downtime message queues up with the family group and the client threads — in the one inbox you demonstrably check.

The fix isn’t more discipline about checking dashboards. It’s putting the news in the messenger you already answer. Here’s a Friday-evening outage, end to end:

One outage, start to finish on WhatsApp

The check fails in the evening and the message buzzes the phone. One tap acknowledges it, the fix goes out, and the recovery lands in the same thread — eighteen minutes, start to finish.

19:26 Booking page down — Diego’s phone buzzesThree regions agreed first — then one message WhatsApp
19:29 He acknowledges between stirsUptimia dashboard on mobile — the ladder to his backup number stops from the kitchen
19:37 The hung VPS reboots from the hosting appTwo taps in the provider’s app — dinner still warm same phone
19:44 ✅ Back up — in the same threadThe recovery message carries the total downtime WhatsApp
18 mindown → up
The client asked about it only after the fix21 min late
A dinner guest mentioned it to the client, who messaged to ask. By then the thread already held the alert, the recovery and the timestamps — Diego answered with facts, not apologies.
3 regions agreedacknowledged in 3 mindown 18 minanswered with timestamps
No war room, no laptop, no new app. The whole incident travelled through the messenger that was already in his pocket. ladder never fired

Connect WhatsApp in three steps

There is nothing to install and no account to connect. Your whole half of the setup is typing in the phone number the alerts should reach.

Step 11 min

Add your phone number

Type it in, and a test message proves the wiring on the spot.

+34 612 ··· ··9 Send test
the test message opens the thread · wiring proven
Step 21 min

Point your monitors at it

Pick the checks that should reach your phone — all of them, or just the ones that can’t wait.

Alert this monitor to
WhatsApp +34 612…EmailSlack
Bookings — caldmont.com → your WhatsApp
Step 3optional

Back it up if nobody answers

If the message goes unacknowledged, Uptimia moves on to the next person.

If nobody acknowledges — escalate
Your WhatsApp → +10 min partner’s WhatsApp → +20 min SMS
planned maintenance muted · quiet hours per person
Technical setup guide

Add a WhatsApp number to Uptimia

Screen by screen, in the Help Center: adding the recipient, verifying each number, confirming the recovery message too, and attaching WhatsApp to your monitors.

Open the setup guide → help.uptimia.com

Everything you monitor, on one number

A homepage ping only proves the homepage. Checkout flows, certificates, domain renewals, server disks, scheduled backups — every check you run can send its alerts to the same WhatsApp thread.

Uptime checksAny URL, watched around the clock
SSL certificatesExpiry warnings weeks ahead
Domain expiryRenewal dates on watch
Server metricsCPU, RAM and disk limits
1 whatsapp thread your number — every check can message it
Heartbeats & cronCron jobs that go quiet
TransactionsSign-up and checkout replays
Virus & malwareReputation & malware scans
Page speedWhen fast becomes sluggish
Every check knocks on the same door — one thread ends up holding your site’s whole health history. 9 types · 1 number

Send each alert to the person who should get it

A WhatsApp message goes to a person, not a room. Add a number for each person, decide who gets the urgent alerts, and who steps in when they don’t answer.

Your number
The front line — everything urgent lands here first.
Down alerts as soon as your regions agree
Checkout & sign-up replays
Server limits & silent cron jobs
pinned · sound on
Your partner’s number
Their own contact, their own thread — no forwarding culture.
The same down alerts, on their phone
SSL & domain expiry warnings
The heartbeats they’re responsible for
everyone hears it first-hand
The ladder behind it
For the evening both phones are face-down — escalation policies, on the Professional plan and above.
WhatsApp — the instant first knock
SMS after the delay you choose
Then the next contact on the list
any acknowledgement stops the climb
Rather have some of it in a team tool? Alerts also reach SlackMS TeamsDiscordTelegramPagerDutyEmail & SMS

Sites break quietly.WhatsApp isn’t quiet.

The full platform during your trial — every monitor type, one message away from your number.

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Dashboard, status pages, reports

The message is only the last metre. Behind every buzz sit 171+ checkpoints, incident timelines, public status pages and monthly reports — there when the headline isn’t enough.

The dashboard one tap behind the buzz

Response times, per-region results, the incident’s full timeline — the phone browser shows everything the message summarised.

Bookings — caldmont.comUPTIME · 99.97% Nightly DB backupHEARTBEAT · OK caldmont.comSSL · OK

171+ vantage points

Probes in 70+ countries load your site the way visitors do — and up to three of them have to agree before your phone makes a sound.

171+ checkpoints · 70+ countries

Status pages included

A public page that answers “is it down?” — so your WhatsApp doesn’t have to.

● status.caldmont.com · live

Uptime reports

Monthly PDFs with the availability numbers — proof of the uptime you’re delivering.

June · 99.97% · PDF sent

Reaction times on record

Every acknowledgement is timestamped — how fast you moved stops being a guess.

avg. response · 3 min

When one buzz isn’t enough

On an escalation policy (Professional plan and above), unacknowledged alerts climb the ladder: another number, an SMS, the next contact. Planned maintenance stays silent.

Step 1 — your WhatsAppWHATSAPP Step 2 — partner’s phoneSMS · +10 MIN Maintenance windowMUTED

How WhatsApp website-monitoring alerts work

Uptimia checks your websites from 171+ external locations and sends every confirmed failure straight to your WhatsApp. The message says which monitor failed, what went wrong and since when, and when the site recovers the all-clear lands in the same thread with the total time down.

“My hosting provider would tell me”

A green host, a dead site

Bookings erroring
19:26 · a deploy gone wrong
host: all green
Nobody’s problem
except yours

Most downtime is yours, not the host’s — an expired certificate, a bad plugin update, a disk that filled up. Every one of those leaves the provider’s status page green while your visitors bounce.

Outside probes + your WhatsApp

Checked outside, delivered like a text

171+ locations
loading the real page
one template message
Your number
in your pocket

The probes experience your site exactly the way a customer does. When their verdict is bad, it doesn’t go to a log file — it goes to the phone in your hand.

Every event

What actually arrives on your number

Six message types cover the life of an incident — short, fixed-format, readable from the lock screen.

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MessageArrives whenContents
Down alertEvery region you required agrees the check is failingThe monitor’s name and its DOWN status
Trouble warningA certificate or domain nears expiry, a page turns slowWhat’s degrading, before it becomes an outage
Real-user alertTraffic stops, speed drops or JavaScript errors spikeThe monitor’s name, in the template for that fault
Server alertCPU, memory, disk or load breaches the level you setThe monitor’s name, in the template for that limit
RecoveryThe failing check passes againThe monitor’s name and the total time it was down
Test messageYou add your numberProof the thread works — before anything is on fire

WhatsApp alerts FAQ

01Do I need a WhatsApp Business account?+
No. Regular WhatsApp on your phone is enough. Uptimia operates the business side — the sending account and the Meta-approved message templates — and you simply receive messages, like from any other contact.
02What do I actually have to configure?+
One field: your phone number, with country code. There’s no QR pairing, no API key, no webhook and nothing to install — the number is the integration. Send the test message to prove the wiring before anything real depends on it.
03Why do the alerts have such a fixed format?+
WhatsApp’s rules require businesses to send pre-registered message templates that Meta has reviewed. Uptimia maintains those templates, which is why every alert has the same glanceable shape — the monitor’s name and what happened, with recoveries adding the total downtime.
04Are the messages available in other languages?+
The WhatsApp alert templates are English-only — every language variant would be a separate Meta-reviewed template. The alerts stay short and factual, so they read at a glance; the rest of Uptimia, including e-mail alerts and reports, follows your language settings.
05Can alerts go to a WhatsApp group?+
No — the WhatsApp Business platform delivers to individual numbers, so alerts arrive in a one-to-one thread. Teams handle this by giving each person their own WhatsApp contact in Uptimia: everyone gets the buzz on their own phone, and nobody depends on someone forwarding it.
06What if I don’t see the message in time?+
Escalation policies — Professional plan and above — cover the gap: if nobody acknowledges, Uptimia waits the delay you chose and moves on — another WhatsApp number, an SMS, the next contact on the list. Any acknowledgement, from anyone, stops the climb.
07Which monitor types can message me?+
Uptime, transactions, page speed, SSL, domain, malware, server, heartbeat and real-user monitoring each have their own approved WhatsApp template, so whichever of them breaks can reach your number. The newest check types — DNS, blacklist and API monitoring — alert on the other channels while their templates go through Meta’s review.
08Will my WhatsApp turn into a firehose?+
It stays quiet. Up to three regions have to agree before an alert fires, maintenance windows mute planned work, and quiet hours are honoured per person. One thing to know: WhatsApp templates are fixed, so they can’t bundle several failures into one digest the way the team channels do — each failing monitor sends its own short message and its own recovery.
09Can Uptimia read my WhatsApp conversations?+
No. The integration only sends: template messages go out from Uptimia’s business account to your number. Your chats, groups and contacts stay on your phone and are never visible to Uptimia — deleting the contact in Uptimia switches the channel off.
10Does WhatsApp alerting cost extra?+
No — it’s one of 12 built-in alert channels, available on every plan and during the 30-day free trial. No credit card required to try it.

Downtime alerts, straight to your WhatsApp

Type your phone number, and every confirmed failure reaches you as a WhatsApp message — nothing to install, nothing to configure.

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WhatsApp is a built-in alert channel — uptime, checkout flows, page speed, SSL, domains, malware, servers, scheduled jobs and real-user checks can all message your number.