PingWise

Frequently asked questions

Everything you might want to know about monitoring your websites and servers with PingWise. Can’t find your answer? Create an account and raise a support ticket any time.

What is PingWise?

PingWise is a website and server monitoring service. It checks your websites and servers around the clock and alerts you the instant one goes down, slows down, loses a keyword, or its SSL certificate is about to expire.

What does PingWise monitor?

Websites — HTTP/HTTPS uptime and status codes, response times and uptime percentage (24h / 7d / 30d), SSL certificate expiry, domain (registration) expiry and on-page keywords. Servers — reachability by ICMP ping or a TCP port (SSH, MySQL, RDP and more). Scheduled jobs — cron jobs, backups and tasks via a heartbeat ping (dead-man’s-switch).

Can PingWise monitor my cron jobs and scheduled tasks?

Yes. Create a cron check and PingWise gives you a unique ping URL. Add it to your cron job (e.g. append “&& curl -fsS <url>”) so it pings each time it runs. If an expected ping doesn’t arrive on schedule (plus a grace period), or the job reports a failure, we alert you — catching silent failures like a backup that quietly stopped running. Optional /start and /fail pings measure run time and flag jobs that run too long. No agent to install.

How does PingWise alert me?

Instantly by email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, webhook and ClickUp when a website or server goes down, recovers, or an SSL certificate or domain is about to expire — with an alert email per monitor too.

Can I publish a public status page?

Yes — build a branded public status page (status.yourdomain) showing the live status and uptime of the services you choose, so your customers can check it themselves.

Is PingWise free?

Yes. The free plan covers up to 2 monitors — websites or servers, in any mix — with no credit card. Paid plans scale up to 50 and add SMS alerts, status pages and maintenance windows.

Can I import my domains from Cloudflare?

Yes — connect a read-only Cloudflare API token and import all your domains as monitors in a couple of clicks.