Use Upptime to monitor your website uptime and status

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Upptime is an open source tool that can be used to monitor the uptime and status of the website using GitHub Actions and GitHub pages. You can set it up without any server configuration. You also don’t need to set up any proxy on the website.

In general, it is often important to understand the status of your website and record when it was closed. If your website is used for commercial purposes, this will help troubleshoot and save money.

This guide will discuss how to configure Upptime operations and pages to monitor the status of your website.

Using Upptime, you can get the following information:

The website monitoring interval is 5 minutes,
Downtime notifications/alerts for email or chat channels, such as free time using webhooks.
If the website response code is different from 200, a status notification will be issued.
A custom status page that can be shared with the team for monitoring.

How to configure Upptime for monitoring

Let’s take a look at how to configure Upptime. Please follow the steps below:

Step 1-Copy the Upptime repository

You must copy/fork the official Upptime repository, which is the template repository.in Upptime’s Github repository, Click “Use this template“Button.

Name the repository and check “Include all branches” Options. In my case, I named the repository “web-uptime”

Step 2-Configure monitoring

Many configurations need to be done on the cloned repository.

Add GH_PAT

Upptime needs to access this repository so that it can check the website status every 5 minutes. Based on the results, Upptime can open issues, send alerts or submit related information, such as status and response time.

Therefore, we need to provide access to this repository by providing a personal access token.

Go to your account settings and select “Developer Settings”Account settingsDeveloper options

In the developer options, click “Personal Access Token” then “Generate a new token”.

You will be asked to provide GitHub credentials.

in”notes“

inside “Select Range” Area, check “Repurchase” and “Workflow”. Then click “Generate Token”

Copy the generated token to a safe place.Received notification, the key is Can only be used once copy.

Then, we will need to add the generated token as a repository key.

Go to the “Settings” of the cloned repository and select “Secrets”

Click”New repository secret” Add the secret we created in the steps above.

Name the new secret GH_PAT And paste the copied token into the “Value” section. Then click “Add Secret”

You should now see the repository password added.

Configure the website for monitoring

The next step is to use GitHub actions to configure the websites that Upptime will monitor. The main configuration file is located in the root directory of the main branch.The file is .upptimerc.yml. We need to modify this file to get the details of the website we intend to monitor.

edit .upptimerc.yml In the following way:

Change value owner To your GitHub username
change repo The value is the custom name of the repository you created.In my case web-uptime.
Add your website below sites Well, remember to delete the existing template that came with the template.
Add to cname If you own a website, delete this line.
Uncomment the baseUrl line and change its value to your GitHub repository.