# Uptime Monitor: Know the Moment Your Website Goes Down > The Uptime Monitor is the website uptime monitoring agent in the Ai1 platform by MyZone AI: it checks your websites on your schedule, confirms a real outage before alerting and tells the right people when a site goes down and when it is back. Canonical page: https://myzone.ai/pages/agents/ai-uptime-monitoring-agent Part of Ai1, by MyZone AI. Book an Uptime Monitor walkthrough: https://calendly.com/d/ct6h-tcy-8qf/ai1-demo?a1=Uptime%20Monitor&utm_source=myzone.ai&utm_medium=agent-page&utm_content=ai-uptime-monitoring-agent-final Last updated: 2026-10-05. Reviewed by the MyZone AI team. Know your site is down before your customers tell you. ## At a glance - **Checks:** From every minute to once a week, chosen for each site - **Before alerting:** Two failed checks a few seconds apart confirm a real outage - **Alerts:** Email or Slack, and text once a text service is connected - **While it lasts:** An hourly reminder, then a recovery notice when the site is back - **Test alerts:** Sent only after you say yes - **What it never does:** Claim your sites are fine when its checker has stopped ## What the Uptime Monitor does - **Watches your sites:** Add website addresses up to the monitor's capacity, choose how often each one is checked, and pause or resume any site whenever you like. - **Confirms before it alerts:** One failed check is not enough. Two failures a few seconds apart confirm a real outage, so nobody is woken up by a passing blip. - **Alerts the right people:** Each alert contact is reached by email, Slack or text message, with text working once a text service is connected for your business. Slack alerts go only to a private channel or a person. - **Reminders and recovery notices:** While a confirmed outage lasts, your contacts get an hourly reminder, and a recovery notice closes the loop when the site is back. - **Uptime report in your chat:** Line charts of uptime and response time, with date filters, a site picker and a list of every outage, shown right in your chat. - **Explains what happened:** After an outage it tells you when it started, how long it lasted and which alerts went out, using only what the checks recorded. ## How the Uptime Monitor differs from a basic ping check A basic ping check can alert on a single failed request and say nothing once the site is back. The Uptime Monitor needs two failed checks a few seconds apart before it alerts, reminds your contacts every hour while the outage lasts and sends a recovery notice when the site returns. If its own checker stops, it says plainly that monitoring is not running and never claims your sites are fine. How this differs from the Page Speed Monitor (https://myzone.ai/pages/agents/ai-page-speed-agent): the Page Speed Monitor tests how fast your pages load and what to fix first, while the Uptime Monitor checks whether your site is up or down. ## How it works 1. **Tell it your sites** (When you set it up): Give it your website addresses, how often to check each one, and who should be alerted and how. 2. **Test the alerts** (you approve) (Before you rely on alerts): It offers a test alert for each route and sends it only after you say yes. A route counts as ready once its test arrives. 3. **Watch around the clock** (Around the clock): A background checker visits each site on the schedule you chose, anywhere from every minute to once a week. 4. **Alert and recover** (The moment an outage is confirmed): A confirmed outage alerts your contacts, with an hourly reminder while it lasts and a recovery notice when the site is back. 5. **Report** (Whenever you ask): Ask for the uptime report or a review of any outage whenever you need it. ## When to use it - **You launch a new site or a page that matters:** It adds it to the watch list and checks it as often as you choose. - **Someone new should hear about outages:** It adds them as an alert contact and offers a test alert, so you know the route works before you rely on it. - **You think the site was down last night:** It shows exactly what the checks recorded, how long the outage lasted and which alerts went out. - **You are reviewing your hosting:** Its response time monitoring gives you uptime and response time for any date range, ready to discuss with your host. ## What you get - Confirmed website down alerts by email, Slack or text message - An hourly reminder while a site stays down, then a recovery notice - An uptime report with uptime and response time charts, date filters and a site picker - A list of every outage with how long it lasted - A plain outage report: when it started, how long it lasted and which alerts went out ## Example: weekly uptime and outage review Example with a fictional company. Names, people and figures are invented to show the agent's output. Any resemblance to a real company or person is unintended. What it was asked: Watch our shop site and our repair booking site, text our store manager if either goes down, then show us last week's uptime and tell us whether anyone was told about last night's outage. The sample follows the Uptime Monitor's current flow on invented data: two sites checked every minute, an outage confirmed only after two failures a few seconds apart, alerts by text and email with a recovery notice, and the 7-day uptime report with its incident and delivery tables. Test alerts were sent only after the owner said yes, and text alerts assume a text message service is connected for the business. It did not check any real site, diagnose why the booking site failed, or change anything; a person on the team or the host makes any fix. Run date: 1 October 2026. ### What it found - The shop site was up 100% of the last 7 days and the repair booking site 99.88%, with one confirmed 12-minute outage overnight on 1 October. - The outage was confirmed by two failed checks 3 seconds apart; the store manager's text and the owner's email both arrived within a minute, followed by recovery notices at 01:59. - The booking site slowed from 0.82 s to 2.94 s in the 40 minutes before it went down, and on a normal day it answers about twice as slowly as the shop site. Slack is a trademark of its owner. MyZone is not affiliated with or endorsed by Slack. ## Guardrails - Real outage alerts go out automatically. Test alerts are sent only after you say yes. - Slack alerts go only to a private channel or a person, never to a public channel. - If the checker stops, it says plainly that monitoring is not running and never claims your sites are fine. - It watches and alerts; fixes to your site, hosting or domain go to the Webmaster. ## Frequently asked questions ### How do website down alerts avoid false alarms? By confirming an outage before anyone is told. The Uptime Monitor in Ai1 by MyZone AI needs two failed checks a few seconds apart before it alerts, so a passing blip wakes nobody. While a confirmed outage lasts, contacts get an hourly reminder, then a recovery notice when the site is back. Real outage alerts go out automatically by email and Slack, or by text message once a text service is connected. Test alerts are only sent after you say yes. ### What should an outage report tell you after a site goes down? When the outage started, how long it lasted and which alerts went out, using only what the checks recorded. The Uptime Monitor gives you this plain account, along with a list of every outage and how long each one lasted. If the checker itself stops running, it tells you plainly and never claims your sites are fine. A monitor running on your Ai1 server cannot report a full outage of that same server. ### Why track response time as well as uptime? A site can be reachable while it answers slowly, or while a checkout is broken. The Uptime Monitor charts uptime and response time over any date range, with a site picker and date filters, so you have a clear record to go through with your web team or host. Page speed has its own monitor, and the Website Monitoring Manager explains which monitor answers which question. ### How often does the Uptime Monitor check, and is it available? Once a minute is the fastest it checks. For each site you can choose anything from every minute to once a week. It is ready to use and runs through your Ai1 server, checks your websites around the clock and confirms a real outage before alerting. ## About Ai1 Ai1 is the AI operations platform by MyZone AI, where each client runs on its own private server. The Uptime Monitor is not sold on its own: every Ai1 agent, including this one, is included on Developer Pro and every Fully Managed option, with no per-agent charge. Developer Core includes the development agents. Pricing: https://myzone.ai/pages/services/ai1-pricing. Security: https://myzone.ai/pages/security.