How to Monitor API Uptime
Your API is the backbone of your product. When it goes down, your customers feel it immediately — broken integrations, failed payments, stalled workflows. Yet most teams only find out about outages when users start complaining. To understand the financial stakes, see our guide on <a href='/guides/website-downtime-cost'>how much website downtime actually costs</a>. Automated API monitoring changes that. Canary checks your endpoints at regular intervals and alerts you the moment something goes wrong, so you can fix issues before they become incidents.
Key Points
Monitor any HTTP endpoint
Canary sends requests to your API endpoints at configurable intervals — every 30 seconds, every minute, or every 5 minutes. It checks status codes, response times, and can validate response bodies to catch partial failures.
Get alerted instantly
When an endpoint fails or responds too slowly, you get notified immediately via email. No more waiting for a customer to report the problem — you know about it first.
Track response time trends
Slow responses often precede outages. Canary tracks response times over time so you can spot degradation before it becomes a full failure. Set response time thresholds to get warned early.
Share status with your users
Create a public status page that shows your API uptime in real time. Your users check the status page instead of filing support tickets, and you build trust by being transparent about reliability.
Why StatusPing?
- Fast checks — monitor endpoints every 30 seconds with instant downtime alerts.
- Status pages — share real-time uptime with your users. Built in, no extra setup.
- Free tier — get started with 5 monitors at no cost. No credit card required.
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