Website Health Check vs Uptime Monitoring: What's the Difference?
A simple explanation of the difference between a one-time website health check and ongoing uptime monitoring, and when to use each.
One-time
Website health check
Useful when you're asking, “Is something wrong with this site right now?”
Ongoing
Uptime monitoring
Useful when you want that question checked repeatedly, including when nobody is watching.
Use the health check when you are troubleshooting
It is a quick starting point. You can see availability, HTTPS, SSL, domain expiry and response time without creating an account.
Use monitoring when the website matters while you're away
If the site handles leads, bookings, sales or customer information, scheduled checks give you a way to hear about a problem instead of discovering it from a message that says, “Is your website down?”
They work well together
Check first. Monitor second. That is a simpler workflow than trying to turn a monitoring dashboard into a troubleshooting tool.
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