DataDad checks your website around the clock and tells you when it goes down. The Free plan includes 50 monitors that check every 5 minutes, with a year of history.
Create your account
- Open data.dad/uptime and select Start monitoring.
- Enter your e-mail address and a password, then select Create account. Or select Email me a sign-up link to sign up without a password.
- Open the e-mail from DataDad within 30 minutes and confirm your address. If you open it on another device, enter the password you chose.
Add your first website
After you confirm your e-mail, DataDad opens a short setup with four steps.
- Type. Keep Website or API selected, then select Continue. The other types are for scheduled jobs, servers and ports.
- Website. Enter your address, such as
example.com. To also check what the page says, open Check page content and enter a keyword. DataDad checks it at once and shows the answer and the response time. Choose how often to check it, then select Continue. - Alerts. Your account e-mail gets alerts already. Under Add a channel, you can add a teammate's e-mail, Discord, Google Chat or push notifications on this device. Choose whether you also want an alert when the website is back up.
- Finish. The summary shows what DataDad checks and who gets alerts. Select Send a test alert to see an alert arrive.
Each step has a Back link. If you go back to the website step and change the address, DataDad changes the monitor you created. It does not add a second one.
What happens next
DataDad checks your website on schedule from now on. When a check fails twice in a row, 2 seconds apart, the monitor is down and your contacts get an alert. When a later check passes, they get a recovery alert.
To add more monitors, open Uptime, then Add monitor. The same setup opens, so you can choose the type again.