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Knowledge base

Guides for DataDad: monitors, alerts, status pages, plans and the analytics API.

Getting started

Start monitoring your website

Create a DataDad account, add your first website and choose who gets alerts. It takes about two minutes.

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Monitors

Website and API monitors

How DataDad checks a URL, when a monitor counts as down, and how to change the address, name and check interval.

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Check for a word on the page

Make a website monitor go down when a page is missing a word, or when it shows a word it should not, such as an error message.

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Ping and port monitors

Watch servers with ping and services such as databases and mail servers with a TCP port check.

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Cron job monitors (heartbeats)

Get an alert when a backup, a cron job or any scheduled task stops running. Your job calls a private URL each time it finishes.

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SSL certificate and domain expiry

DataDad checks your SSL certificates and domain registration once a day and warns you before they expire.

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Alerts

Alert contacts

Choose who gets uptime alerts, add teammates, turn recovery alerts on or off, and send a test alert.

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Discord alerts

Post uptime alerts to a Discord channel with a webhook.

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Google Chat alerts

Post uptime alerts to a Google Chat space with a webhook.

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Push notifications

Get uptime alerts as notifications on your phone or computer, with no app to install.

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Status pages and badges

Public status page

Publish a page that shows your visitors the current status and 90-day uptime of the monitors you choose.

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Uptime badges

Show your uptime on your own website with a small badge that updates by itself.

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History

Incidents and uptime history

Read the uptime, response times, incidents and single checks of a monitor for the last 24 hours up to a year.

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Plans and billing

Free and Solo plans

What the Free and Solo plans include, how to upgrade, and how to cancel.

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Analytics API

Analytics API

Read your visitors, page views and link clicks from your own server with a secret key. Create a key, make the first request, and learn the limits.

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Stats API reference

Every stats API endpoint, its parameters and its response. Summary, time series, breakdowns, realtime visitors and the list of tenants.

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Per-user analytics for platforms

Give each profile, store or page on your platform its own statistics. Name the tenant on the script tag, count link clicks, and read each tenant's numbers.

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