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SiteVitals now monitors the status of individual services on your Linux servers — nginx, MySQL, Redis, PHP-FPM and more. Get alerted the moment a service stops or starts crash-looping, with full context captured at failure time.

SiteVitals now monitors your Linux servers — CPU, memory, disk, load average, and running processes. Install the agent in 60 seconds and get alerted before your sites go down.

A few weeks ago I wrote about "why technical SEO needs an AI layer" and walked through the schema validator, AI crawler audit, and llms.txt checker we had built into SiteVitals. The response was encouraging - but the most common question I got was some variant of: "My schema passes your checks, but I'm still not showing up in AI answers. What else can I do?"

When your site goes down, every minute matters—but not every alert should fire at once. SiteVitals now lets you set individual delays for each notification channel, so the right people are alerted at the right time. Notify your on-call developer immediately, escalate to managers if the issue persists, and keep leadership informed without unnecessary noise. It’s a smarter, more flexible way to handle incidents - automatically.

If you’ve been in the web industry for more than a minute, you know UptimeRobot. Launched in 2010, it’s the "Old Guard" of monitoring. It’s reliable, it’s familiar, and it’s the tool many of us used for our very first side projects. But as we move through 2026, the web has changed. A website being "up" is no longer the finish line - it’s the bare minimum.

Monitor your scheduled tasks and background jobs with SiteVitals. Get alerted when a cron job fails to run, takes too long, or crashes.

If you manage websites for clients, you've likely found yourself comparing monitoring tools. Sentinel, a new uptime monitoring product from rootstuff, launched in February 2026 and positions itself squarely at agencies and freelancers. It's a clean, well-built tool — and a fair question to ask is: how does it compare to SiteVitals?

Oh Dear is one of the most well-known website monitoring tools for developers and agencies, and for good reason. It is well-built, well-priced, and backed by Spatie - one of the most respected teams in the Laravel community. If you are shopping for a monitoring tool, it is probably already on your list.

We've completely rebuilt how SiteVitals monthly reports work - from what data they capture, to how they look in your inbox, to what you see when you open them in the dashboard. Here's what's changed and why it matters.

If you’ve ever had a client’s site "go down," only to discover hours later that their IT department migrated their email and accidentally nuked their A record in the process, this update is for you.

Today, we’re excited to announce Intelligent DNS Change Monitoring for SiteVitals. We aren’t just checking if your domain is "up" - we are now snapshotting your DNS and alerting you the second a record is added, removed, or modified.

SiteVitals now has an MCP server. Connect your account to Claude and ask questions about your websites in plain English. Which sites have issues? Any SSL certificates expiring? What did the last security scan find? Claude pulls live data from your SiteVitals account and answers directly, without you opening a single dashboard. Setup takes five minutes using Claude Code.

Uptime monitoring tells you one thing: your server answered. It doesn't tell you whether your PageSpeed score has tanked since your last deployment, whether a security header was accidentally removed during a server migration, or whether your SSL certificate expires tomorrow. For most sites, uptime monitoring is where monitoring stops, leaving a significant blind spot. This post covers the five areas of site health that deteriorate over time without anybody noticing.