Q & A
Cron job or heartbeat monitoring is a great way to monitor intranet servers/computers/devices which are connected to the internet.
And, besides that, it also allows us to monitor the health of the regular actions (cron jobs, background processes..) our website/app/system performs.
It works in an opposite way compared to the other monitoring types as it requires the monitor to send the requests so that Uptime Robot can decide if it is up or down.
And, for sending these regular HTTP requests you can use:
Sometimes, StatusBot may report a false-positive incident. In most cases, it is due to some third-party circumstances. Here's a list of the most frequent issues and their solutions
All primary checks are made from the main engines in Dallas-USA. However, once a downtime is detected, secondary requests to verify this downtime is sent from remote nodes that are located in different countries/continents.
Users with Android, especially Huawei and Honor phones may face the problem when they are not receiving notifications (on time). It’s a common problem of these phones because of their Battery optimization settings.