Self-hosted website, server and service monitoring — setup, notifications, status pages and comparisons
View Uptime Kuma hostingFirst steps with Uptime Kuma on SmartXHosting.
A plain-English introduction to Uptime Kuma for UK admins, developers and small business owners. Covers what Uptime Kuma actually…
Complete guide to starting with Uptime Kuma — free open-source website monitoring managed on UK infrastructure from £1/month…
Quick Setup Guide of Uptime Kuma Monitoring Uptime Kuma is your reliable performance monitoring companion. This powerful tool…
Legacy Uptime Kuma setup guide — admin account, main dashboard, adding monitors, General/Advanced/Notifications sections and…
Step-by-step guide to creating your first HTTP(s) monitor in Uptime Kuma — heartbeat intervals, retries, status codes, SSL expiry…
An alphabetical plain-English glossary of Uptime Kuma and monitoring terms for UK sysadmins, developers and business owners…
HTTP, TCP, DNS, SSL, keywords, push heartbeat and more.
HTTP(s) monitoring for UK websites and APIs — methods, headers, authentication, status codes, redirects, keyword monitoring and…
A practical UK guide to HTTP(s) monitoring in Uptime Kuma. Covers the status codes that matter, setting up your first monitor…
Monitor non-HTTP services with TCP (databases, mail, SSH, FTP) and Ping (network reachability) in Uptime Kuma on SmartXHosting …
Detect DNS hijacking and misconfiguration in Uptime Kuma — A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, NS record types, custom resolvers and UK…
A UK-focused guide to DNS monitoring with Uptime Kuma. Covers which DNS record types to watch, detecting unintended changes…
Passive monitoring for UK cron jobs, backups and scheduled tasks — Push URL setup, parameters, timeout selection and practical…
Beyond HTTP/Ping — JSON Query for API validation, database monitors (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB), gRPC, MQTT, Gamedig and…
A UK guide to Uptime Kuma's keyword monitor. Covers why HTTP 200 is not enough, how positive and negative keyword matching work…
A practical UK guide to monitoring API endpoints with Uptime Kuma's JSON Query monitor. Covers why status codes are not enough…
A practical UK guide to SSL/TLS certificate monitoring with Uptime Kuma. Covers why expired certificates still cause outages, how…
Product Availability Status Monitoring Uptime Kuma software offers the capability to monitor webpages or online stores for…
Email, chat, SMS and webhook alerts to your team.
Configure SMTP email notifications in Uptime Kuma — Gmail, Outlook, SmartXHosting Plesk setup, App Passwords, multiple recipients…
A practical UK guide to SMTP email notifications in Uptime Kuma. Covers Gmail with app passwords, Microsoft 365, self-hosted SMTP…
Real-time chat alerts via Slack, Discord, Telegram and Microsoft Teams for UK teams — setup walkthroughs and multi-channel…
A UK guide to wiring Uptime Kuma alerts into Slack and Microsoft Teams. Covers webhook setup on both platforms, channel routing…
A UK guide to Telegram notifications in Uptime Kuma. Covers creating a bot with BotFather, obtaining chat IDs for personal and…
A UK guide to SMS alerts in Uptime Kuma. Covers when SMS is the right channel, which providers work for UK phone numbers (Twilio…
Webhook, Pushover, PagerDuty, ntfy and Apprise notifications in Uptime Kuma — integrate with n8n, Zapier, any UK automation or…
A plain-English UK guide to designing an Uptime Kuma notification strategy that avoids alert fatigue. Covers what alert fatigue…
Public status pages and incident communication.
Share UK service availability with customers — create branded status pages with groups, custom domain, SSL and public or private…
Post incidents, schedule maintenance windows and keep UK customers informed via Uptime Kuma status pages — one-off and recurring…
API, backups, security, WordPress/shop monitoring.
Programmatic access to Uptime Kuma — Socket.IO API, API keys, Prometheus metrics for Grafana, status badges, customisation and…
Protect your Uptime Kuma instance on SmartXHosting — JSON export/import, daily server backups, strong passwords, 2FA via TOTP and…
Set up Uptime Kuma monitors for UK WordPress sites and online shops on SmartXHosting — homepage, checkout, wp-cron push, SSL…
Fix common Uptime Kuma issues.
Fix monitors marked down when the service works fine — WAF/firewall whitelisting, SSL errors, DNS propagation, protocol/port…
Fix Uptime Kuma dashboards that won't load on SmartXHosting — triage by symptom, browser/network/server-side issues…
Reduce false-positive alerts on Uptime Kuma — root causes (aggressive timeout, zero retries, blips, rate-limiting) and a tuning…
Fix missing Uptime Kuma alerts on SmartXHosting — email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, webhook and Pushover troubleshooting…
Uptime Kuma vs UptimeRobot, Pingdom, Datadog, Zabbix, Better Stack.
Head-to-head comparison for UK businesses: Uptime Kuma (self-hosted, £1/month on SmartXHosting) vs UptimeRobot (cloud SaaS) …
A UK-focused side-by-side comparison of Uptime Kuma and Uptime Robot. Covers feature parity and gaps, the per-monitor pricing…
A UK-focused comparison of Uptime Kuma and Pingdom. Covers Pingdom's enterprise positioning, the per-check pricing model…
A UK comparison of Uptime Kuma and Datadog. Two tools at opposite ends of the monitoring market — narrow open-source uptime…
A UK comparison of Uptime Kuma and Zabbix — two different tools with overlapping marketing. Agentless web monitoring vs…
A UK SME-focused comparison of Uptime Kuma and Better Stack. Covers Better Stack's modern UX and per-seat pricing, multi-region…
A UK-focused comparison of self-hosted and managed Uptime Kuma. Walks through what each model actually delivers, the total…
Why monitoring matters and what's new in Uptime Kuma v2.
A plain-English framework for calculating what downtime costs UK businesses. Covers the four cost layers (revenue, productivity…
A plain-English tour of Uptime Kuma v2 for UK users. Covers the MariaDB database option, the Vue 3 UI rewrite, rootless Docker…