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Guides and updates on uptime monitoring, status pages, SSL, and keeping your services online — from the Uptimeprobe team.

A green endpoint card reading GET /api/v1/users 200 OK beside two failing cards: a nightly job whose status bars stop partway, and a padlock marked expired

July 26, 2026 • 21 min read Guides

API monitoring best practices: what a 200 response doesn't tell you

What a 200 response hides, and the monitoring practices that catch functional failures, regional outages, expired certificates, and scheduled jobs that never ran.

A dotted world map with three check-in nodes pinging a central service, beside a card showing an SSL certificate expiry countdown and green status-page uptime bars

July 24, 2026 • 8 min read Guides

Uptime monitoring isn't just about your homepage anymore

A green homepage doesn't mean your app works. Why modern uptime monitoring has to cover APIs, background jobs, certificates, and more than one location.

A padlock with a green verified checkmark and a certificate, over an uptime pulse line

July 22, 2026 • 3 min read Tools

How to check an SSL certificate before your users do

A free tool to check any domain's SSL certificate: expiry date, issuer, chain, and the hostnames it covers, plus what each result actually means.

An uptime monitoring dashboard showing green status rows and a pulse line

January 1, 2026 • 1 min read Announcements

Welcome to Uptimeprobe

An introduction to Uptimeprobe, a simple uptime monitoring service.