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No codeUpdated Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min read

Watch a site

Paste a URL and get uptime checks, a public status page and alerts. Nothing to install.

Set it up

1

Paste your URL

Type it on upcontrol.io and press Check. No account needed.
2

See its status page

It opens at /status/<your-site>: the page your site already has, as it is, or a new one with one check, the site itself. A site that does not answer gets a diagnostic instead, and nothing is created.
3

Claim it

Press Get alerts or Add a check on that page and sign in with email or Google. Until you do, nobody gets alerted.
4

Add more checks

In the app, open Status page and add a check for each page you care about, like /checkout or /api.
5

Add who should hear

In Alerts, connect Telegram, email, Slack or Discord. Every row has Send test.
The UpControl landing page with tidvatten.app typed into the site address field, next to the Check button
Type a domain on upcontrol.io and press Check. The status page exists from that moment.

Checks

  • Two kinds: Website and Heartbeat.
  • A website check takes a URL, an optional Page must contain text, and an interval: 1m, 5m, 30m or 1h. Free checks every 5 minutes at most; paid plans every minute.
  • SSL and domain expiry are tracked on every website check.
  • A website incident opens after 3 failed checks in a row and closes on the first success.
  • Your status page lives at /status/<slug>. Paid plans can put it on your own subdomain with a CNAME.
A public status page for tidvatten.app: four components, each with 24 hours of uptime bars and an uptime figure from 99.87% to 100%
A public status page: one row per component, 24 hours of checks, uptime on the right. Sample data.

Watch a background job

  1. In the app, open Status page, add a check, pick Heartbeat and how often the job runs: every 5 or 30 minutes, hourly, every 6 hours or daily.
  2. Copy the ping URL from its row.
  3. Call it as the last line of the job, after the work succeeded:
curl -fsS -m 10 "$UPCONTROL_PING_URL"

Heartbeats are free and don't count toward your checks. If a ping doesn't arrive within its interval plus a grace period (the interval itself, up to an hour), an incident opens.