Simple Ping

Seamlessly monitor your websites, web applications and servers

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See the status of every service

Open the sample checker to see how targets and alert settings are managed directly from the dashboard.

Display name

Checker type

Webpage Port Heartbeat

* Page URL

Search string

* Server IP / Hostname

Port

Expected every (minutes)

Heartbeat URL

Last success report: Never

Waiting for the first report before monitoring starts.

Use with a Windows scheduled task Use with a Linux cron job

Notifications

Send email notification

Consider down when:

1 consecutive down

2 consecutive downs

Repeat alerts for email notifications only

No - Send email once per state change

Yes - Send email every minute until back up

$5per month

Monitor up to 100 websites, applications, server ports, or heartbeats from one account.

Start without a credit card
Checks every minute
Email alerts included

Test a webpage or a server port

Try either checker below. These controls perform a real state check without adding anything to an account.

Webpage checker

HTTP / HTTPS

* Page URL

Search string

I have permission to monitor this target

Not checked

Port checker

TCP port

* Server IP / Hostname

* Port

I have permission to monitor this target

Not checked

No more false positives

Advanced checking algorithms not just ICMP packets
Don't be bothered by false positives
Report a DOWN when a true failure

Put your checkers in groups

Try clicking the group below. Group clients, infrastructure, and custom groups while keeping every status visible.

Clients 3 checkers Up2 Down1 Longest Up18d 4h Last down18m ago

Customer portal https://portal.example.com StatusUP Up for12d EmailOn RepeatOff

API server api.example.com:443 StatusUP Up for4d EmailOn RepeatOn

Legacy app https://legacy.example.com StatusDOWN Down for18m EmailOn RepeatOn

Repeat alerts

Get email notifications once per state change
Or get emails every minute until it's back up
Hound yourself until it's fixed

Share the uptime you monitor

Add a live Simple Ping badge to your website and choose whether it shows all checkers, one checker, or branding only.

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Badge format

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99.98% this month Uptime monitored by Simple Ping

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See more Simple Ping features Diagnostics, history, API, bulk insert, exports, themes, and more.

Heartbeat checkers for private servers

Use reverse pings to monitor servers, scheduled jobs, and services that cannot be reached from the public internet.

No inbound port or VPN access required
Your server calls one generated URL on its schedule
Missing reports follow your DOWN and email alert settings

Heartbeat checkerPrivate backup server UP

Expected every60m Last report2m ago

Heartbeat URL https://simple-ping.com/heartbeat/...a1b2c3

Next report due58m

See the reason why it was down

Each new downtime keeps the failure reason, protocol response code, and a limited preview of relevant data received.

Checkout page Down

Failure reason Search text was not found in the response. Protocol HTTP/1.1 Response code 200 Data received Welcome back. The checkout service is temporarily unavailable...

See the history of each checker

Review when each outage started, how long it lasted, when it recovered, and the notes you added.

Company website Recovered

Down fromSep 2 at 2:00 AM Duration2m Down toSep 2 at 2:02 AM Error codeHTTP/1.1 200 DescriptionServer restarted after security updates.

Up fromAug 18 at 9:15 PM Duration14d 4h Up toSep 2 at 2:00 AM

Down fromAug 18 at 9:14 PM Duration1m Down toAug 18 at 9:15 PM Error codeTCP exit 1 DescriptionNetwork maintenance.

Let your AI agent manage your checkers

Manage your checkers by code.

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GET /api/v1/checkers List checkers

GET /api/v1/checkers/{id} Read checker and heartbeat URL

POST /api/v1/checkers Create checker

PATCH /api/v1/checkers/{id} Update checker

DELETE /api/v1/checkers/{id} Delete checker

POST /api/v1/checkers/{id}/check Check state now

POST /api/v1/checkers/{id}/regenerate-heartbeat-url Regenerate heartbeat URL

Add many checkers at once

Paste a CSV or tab-separated list instead of creating checkers one at a time.

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Checker rows CSV or tab-separated rows

Display name,Group,Type,Target,Port,Search string,Email,Consecutive downs,Repeat

1 Company website,Production,webpage,https://simple-ping.com,,Simple Ping,yes,2,no

2 Web server,Infrastructure,port,simple-ping.com,443,,yes,1,no

Export all your checkers

Download your checker configuration, complete history, or one Excel workbook with separate sheets.

Checkers workbookAll checker settings and current states. XLSX

History workbookEvery DOWN and UP interval with diagnostics and notes. XLSX

Combined workbookCheckers and History in separate sheets. 2 XLSX sheets

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