What can LivStatus monitor?

Four monitor types: websites and APIs over HTTP/HTTPS, ping for host reachability, TCP ports for individual services such as databases or mail servers, and SSL certificates. Each monitor also tracks domain registration expiry.

How does it avoid false alarms?

One failed check is not enough. By default LivStatus needs two failures in a row before it declares a monitor down, and maintenance windows mute checks and alerts during planned work.

Email, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Alert rules can target one monitor, a whole tag such as 'production', or everything you own, and you choose which events matter: down, recovered, certificate expiring or certificate changed.

Can a page be 'up' but still broken?

Yes, and LivStatus can catch it. Set the status codes you accept, a keyword that must (or must not) appear on the page, and a response-time limit above which the monitor is marked degraded instead of up.

Yes. API keys let your own scripts create and manage monitors without a password, for example adding a monitor whenever your team launches a new service. Keys can be named and revoked at any time.

Know the moment your site goes down.

LivStatus checks your websites, APIs, servers and certificates from the outside, the way a real visitor reaches them, and alerts your team before customers notice.

4 monitor types
Checks every 10 seconds
Alerts by Email, Slack and Teams
SSL and domain expiry warnings

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Checks every 10 secondsProbes from multiple regionsResponse time tracked per checkUptime over 24h, 7d & 30dDowntime caught in one intervalWebsite, ping, port & SSLKeyword checks on page bodiesPort checks on any host

Email, Slack & Teams alertsSSL & domain-expiry warningsIncidents opened automaticallyMaintenance windows mute alertsAlert rules by monitor or tagAcknowledge incidents in a clickAPI keys for automationTags group monitors in bulk

Why LivStatus

Why monitor from the outside?

Most tools tell you after something breaks. LivStatus tells you before your users do.

Problem

Finding out from your users is too late

Basic checks run from a single location on a slow schedule, and internal pings can't see what visitors see. Alerts get buried in noise, so by the time you hear about an outage, customers have already run into it and you're debugging blind.

Solution

Monitoring that catches it first

LivStatus checks your site from outside your network. It confirms a failure before alerting you, then sends the alert to Email, Slack or Teams. Uptime, latency, SSL and incident history are all together in one dashboard.

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One place for every kind of check

Point LivStatus at anything with an address. It checks from the outside, keeps the history, and opens an incident the moment something breaks.

Website & API checks

HTTP/HTTPS checks with custom methods, headers, request bodies and the exact status codes you expect.

Keyword monitoring

Mark a page as down when a word you expect disappears or an error message shows up, even if the server still returns 200.

Port monitoring

Watch any TCP port, such as databases, mail or SSH servers, and know the second it stops accepting connections.

Ping monitoring

Quick reachability checks for hosts and devices, with response times tracked over time.

SSL certificate monitoring

Get a warning well before a certificate expires, and as soon as it changes unexpectedly.

Domain expiry

Get a warning well before a domain registration expires, so it never lapses by accident.

How it works

Live in under a minute

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Built to keep you ahead

Alerts where you work, status at a glance

Alerts that keep your whole team in the loop

Send incidents to the tools your team already uses: Email, Slack and Teams. The right people hear about a failure as it happens, and about the recovery too.

Every signal on one dashboard

Uptime, response times, SSL and domain expiry, and a live incident feed all appear in one view. See your whole fleet together, then open any monitor to look closer.

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Start monitoring in seconds.Seriously.

Point LivStatus at any website, API or server and it starts checking in seconds. An intuitive dashboard, a typed API and clear docs make setup effortless.

A real-time dashboard that's easy to use
A monitor live in seconds, with no agent to install
Warnings before SSL or domain expiry
Detailed uptime, latency and downtime insights

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Questions teams ask before they start

Answers for developers, ops teams and business owners looking at LivStatus.

LivStatus is an uptime monitoring service. It checks your websites, APIs, servers and SSL certificates from outside your network on a schedule you choose, opens an incident when something breaks and alerts your team.