Ping a URL on a schedule, alert if it fails, log the history. This is about as mechanical as monitoring gets, and one of the cleanest evening builds on the whole register.
VIBE SCORE 95/100
The parts this build actually needs, each rated on its own — the average is the Vibe Score above.
| Landing page | 99 |
| CRUD database | 95 |
| Email notifications | 91 |
Don't feel like building it? These are already made, open-source, and free.
Build it. Ping a URL on a schedule, alert if it fails, log the history. This is about as mechanical as monitoring gets, and one of the cleanest evening builds on the whole register.
UptimeRobot costs $7/mo (about $84/yr) as of 2026-08. That's what a working rebuild would save you.
Checking from multiple geographic regions (so a regional outage doesn't hide from a single-location monitor) needs distributed infrastructure Their SSL-certificate-expiry and domain-expiry monitoring are small but genuinely separate checks to add Alert-fatigue features (only notify after N consecutive failures) matter more than they seem at first
Yes — Uptime Kuma are open-source options worth trying before you build your own. Details are in the standard parts section on this page.