Monitor Website uptime & SSL Cert status free of cost

Harry - The DevOps Guy
3 min readSep 4, 2022

Hi Everyone,

These days, There are so many website to monitor website status and SSL certificates. they are providing these services at $5–$10 yearly. I inspired with them and created my own website and SSL status Monitoring platform. we have launched Community Edition as opensource. It will be free forever.

In the community edition you will get following features.
1. Unlimited uptime urls monitoring
2. Unlimited SSL Certificate monitoring.
3. Unlimited Free Notification in Telegram Group and Personal chat. ( say hi )
4. Track your website uptime status using web UI ( Publicly: No need to login and Paid Subscriptions).
5. Get instant notification if anything goes wrong.
6. also we have some paid notification mode i.e Slack, Email, Telegram, etc.
7. You can prepare your config as per your customization — Download Sample config ( Do not commit any sensitive data)
6. also we have some paid notification mode i.e Slack, Email, Telegram, etc.

How to start monitoring my Website URLs and SSL?

  1. First your need to join our community Telegram Group [ click here mCloud-Uptime ]. You will get all notification in this group.
  2. You need to submit your urls in Google Form or share with HarryTheDevOpsGuy.
  3. Once we will add your url in the application you will get notification in the Telegram Group mCloud-Uptime.
  4. later on if you want to get these notification in other Private Group. you can request to HarryTheDevOpsGuy or admin to create private group.

[ For Advanced Users ]

How to monitor your Domain and SSL as privately.

  1. Create your private github repository.
  2. Download Sample config File and modify it according to your requirements.
  3. Commit after all modifications, Make sure there should not be any sensitive data in the repository. you can add variable in place of that.
  4. You can Give Readonly access to HarryTheDevOpsGuy github user. ask to integrate with repo with mCloud-Uptime App.
  5. Once it is done you will able to get notification in your custom Slack Channel,Telegram group, Email. whenever anything goes wrong with your website.

Sample monitoring Screenshots:

URL is not accessible | 403
SSL Expiration Alert
Slack :: SSL Expiration Alert
Slack :: Website status alert

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