Availability monitoring
Cloudflare challenge warnings
Why WebCheck may be challenged even when your website works in a browser, and how to separate edge protection from a real outage.
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Monitoring help and guidance
Practical guides for understanding checks, diagnosing warnings, confirming incidents and sharing service status with your customers.
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Monitoring basics
How WebCheck calculates uptime
Understand completed-period uptime, current availability, degraded checks, incidents and newly added sites.
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How often does WebCheck check my site?
Understand WebCheck monitoring intervals, the initial scan, manual checks, retries and how check frequency is configured.
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Understanding HTTP status errors
A practical guide to WebCheck responses for 401, 403, 404, 429, 500, 502, 503 and 504 errors.
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TLS and certificate warnings
Understand certificate, hostname and protocol errors in WebCheck, and what to check before changing your TLS settings.
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How to set up a custom status-page domain
Point a subdomain such as status.example.com at WebCheck and publish your public status page there.
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Using the WebCheck status widget
Embed a safe public status summary, understand current availability and keep private monitoring details private.
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How to add your first website to WebCheck
Set up your first WebCheck site, understand the initial scan and decide what to monitor next.
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What WebCheck actually checks
See which checks you can configure in WebCheck and what each one can tell you about a public site or service.
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Understanding WebCheck statuses
Learn what Passed, Degraded, Failed, Blocked, Running and Unavailable mean in WebCheck.
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How WebCheck confirms an incident
Understand retries, failure thresholds, incident opening, recovery and why one failed request may not open an incident.
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How WebCheck HTTP checks work
Understand expected status ranges, redirects, response timing, timeouts and evidence in WebCheck HTTP checks.
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How to monitor page content changes
Use exact required- and forbidden-text checks to verify phrases in HTTP responses, and understand what WebCheck does not compare automatically.
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How DNS monitoring works
Understand the DNS records WebCheck checks, how later runs report record changes and how to read the evidence.
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Can WebCheck monitor canonical and noindex changes?
Understand what WebCheck can and cannot detect about canonical and noindex changes, and when to use a broader SEO audit.
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