Tips for dealing with flaky website monitors
Intermittent “down” alerts—even when your site is up—can be frustrating. Here are reliable tips to reduce false alarms and improve monitoring accuracy:
Troubleshooting steps
1. If your monitor frequently reports downtime and immediately recovers, your site may be slower than expected.
Tip: Increase the timeout setting. See help doc
2. If monitoring requests are getting blocked, add StatusGator to your allowlist.
Tip: Whitelist our IPs. See help doc
3. If your site filters out bot-like traffic, customize the request header.
Tip: Set a custom User-Agent string. See help doc
4. If you're blocking requests from certain regions, choose specific monitoring locations.
Tip: Limit checks to your preferred regions. See help doc
5. Too many alerts? Adjust how sensitive the system is to failure.
Tip: Modify the alert sensitivity (number of retries before an alert). See help doc