The Latest from Uptrack
Education · October 13, 2026
DNS Monitoring: What to Monitor, and What an Uptime Tool Can See
Query, server and traffic monitoring explained. What to check in DNS (records, nameservers, expiry, DNSSEC) and where an outside check stops.
Read onEducation · October 13, 2026
What Is MTBF? Meaning, Formula and MTBF vs MTTR vs MTTF
MTBF stands for mean time between failures. The formula with a worked example, how it differs from MTTR and MTTF, and how to measure it.
Read onUse Cases · October 12, 2026
How to Check if a Website Is Down From Multiple Locations
How to check if a website is down from multiple locations: why one location misleads, how to read each result, and what to do next. Free, no signup.
Read onEducation · October 12, 2026
HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons: What the Error Means and What to Do
HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons (RFC 7725): what the error means, how it differs from 403 and 404, and how to check it from other places.
Read onAlternatives · October 12, 2026
Freshping Discord Integration: Alerts After Shutdown
Freshping shut down on March 6, 2026. What its integrations were, and how to get uptime alerts into Discord now, on a free plan or through any webhook.
Read onEducation · October 12, 2026
Synthetic Monitoring Services: How to Choose One
Synthetic monitoring runs scripted checks of your site from outside. What it covers, when plain uptime checks are enough, and how to choose a service.
Read onEducation · October 12, 2026
Free Uptime Monitoring in Europe: Limits and GDPR
What free uptime monitoring includes in 2026, where your monitoring data is stored, and what to check for GDPR before you pick a free plan.
Read onProduct · October 11, 2026
Checking Your Site From 22 Locations Without 22 Times the False Alarms
HTTP and keyword monitors now run from 22 locations on six continents. How cities take turns, confirm failures and handle blocks.
Read onProduct · October 9, 2026
Ask Claude Which of Your Sites Are Down
Uptrack is listed in Claude’s connector directory. Check a URL, read uptime and pause a monitor from a chat. Needs a paid plan.
Read onEngineering · April 5, 2026
How We Built Multi-Region Check Consensus on the BEAM
How several check locations confirm a failure before Uptrack alerts (archived; written for the Elixir version).
Read onComparison · April 4, 2026
7 Best Free Uptime Monitoring Tools in 2026 (Tested & Compared)
We tested the top free uptime monitoring tools. Compare check intervals, alert channels, false alarm handling, and what each free plan actually gives you.
Read onEngineering · April 1, 2026
Why Most Uptime Alerts Are Noise — And How to Fix It
Your phone buzzes at 3am. DNS timeout. By the time you open your laptop, it's already resolved. Here's why consecutive-check confirmation changes everything.
Read onOpinion · April 1, 2026
Uptime Monitoring for Indie Hackers — What You Actually Need
You don't need Datadog. You need simple, affordable monitoring that doesn't wake you up for nothing.
Read onEducation · April 1, 2026
What Is a Good Uptime SLA? 99.9% vs 99.99% Explained
What those nines actually mean in real downtime minutes, and how your monitoring interval affects detection.
Read onSEO · April 1, 2026
How Website Downtime Affects Your SEO Rankings
Google crawl errors during downtime can deindex your pages. Here's how monitoring helps prevent SEO damage.
Read onEngineering · April 1, 2026
Why We Chose BEAM for Uptime Monitoring
Archived: why we first built Uptrack on the BEAM VM. Written for the Elixir version; since June 2026 the backend is Rust.
Read onEngineering · April 18, 2026
Generate PDFs Without Launching a Browser
Typst generates production-quality PDFs in milliseconds without Puppeteer or wkhtmltopdf. Here's why we use it for invoice generation in 9invoice.
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