Guide
Introduction
UptimeGrid is a distributed monitoring platform that detects outages, latency, and connectivity issues before your users are impacted. Deploy lightweight agents across your infrastructure for real-time visibility into the health of APIs, services, and network paths from any location.
What is UptimeGrid?
UptimeGrid combines distributed health checking with a connectivity matrix to give you a complete picture of how your services perform from every network you operate in. Instead of relying on a single external probe, you deploy agents inside your own environments — cloud VPCs, on-prem data centers, edge locations — so checks reflect real user connectivity.
Core Capabilities
- Distributed Monitoring — Run checks from any network using lightweight agents with zero external dependencies.
- Multi-Protocol Checks — HTTP, TCP, DNS, Redis, Azure Service Bus, and more out of the box.
- Real-Time Dashboard — Live connectivity matrix with WebSocket updates. See status changes the moment they happen.
- Automated Diagnostics — When a check fails, the agent automatically runs DNS resolution, ping, and port connectivity tests to pinpoint the root cause.
- Alerting & Incidents — Configurable alert rules with grouping, escalation, and notification providers (email, Slack, webhooks, PagerDuty).
- Heartbeat Monitoring — Accept push-based heartbeats from cron jobs, pipelines, and scheduled tasks.
How It Works
The platform follows a hub-and-agent architecture:
- You register an agent in the dashboard and deploy it to your source environment.
- The agent connects to the hub, receives its assigned monitors, and begins executing checks on a schedule.
- Results flow back to the hub in real time, where they are aggregated, stored, and evaluated against your alert rules.
- The dashboard displays a live connectivity matrix — source agents on one axis, destinations on the other.
Who Is It For?
- Platform & SRE Teams — Monitor internal service mesh connectivity across regions and availability zones.
- DevOps Engineers — Validate deployments with automated connectivity tests from multiple vantage points.
- MSPs & Consultants — Offer white-label monitoring to clients with isolated agent deployments.
- Startups & SMBs — Get enterprise-grade uptime monitoring without the enterprise price tag.
Next Steps
- Quick Start — Deploy your first agent in under 5 minutes. See the Agent Deployment Guide.
- Architecture Overview — Understand the hub-agent model, data flow, and scalability design.
- API Reference — Integrate UptimeGrid into your existing toolchain with the REST API.