When news breaks, your site needs to be ready. Monitor your publishing platform, CDN delivery, ad networks, and content APIs. Catch issues before they cost you readers and revenue.
5 free monitors. No credit card. 30-second setup.
Readers have hundreds of alternatives. When your site is slow or down, they don't wait. They go to a competitor. Every minute of downtime costs ad revenue, loses social shares, and damages your publication's credibility.
70%
of readers will leave and not return if a news site is down during a breaking event
$10K+/hr
estimated ad revenue loss for mid-size media sites during an outage
53%
of traffic spikes from breaking news are unpredictable and can overwhelm CDNs
< 3 sec
maximum load time before readers abandon a page and go to a competitor
Your biggest traffic moments are also your highest-risk moments. A story goes viral, social platforms drive massive traffic, and your infrastructure is under peak load. Without real-time monitoring, you won't know your site is buckling until readers complain on social media, which amplifies the problem rather than solving it.
From CMS to CDN, every component that delivers content to your readers gets dedicated monitoring.
Monitor your homepage, article pages, category sections, and author profiles. Track your CMS admin panel and publishing workflow. Know instantly when readers can't access your content or editors can't publish new stories.
Website MonitoringMedia sites depend on fast content delivery. Monitor page load times, Core Web Vitals, and CDN performance. Detect when content delivery degrades before it affects reader experience and search engine rankings.
Page Speed MonitoringMonitor content APIs, RSS feeds, mobile app endpoints, and third-party integrations. Media platforms syndicate content across multiple channels. Ensure every distribution endpoint is delivering content reliably.
API MonitoringUse keyword monitoring to verify that articles render correctly, ad slots load, paywalls function, and newsletter signup forms are present. Catch silent failures in ad delivery that cost revenue without visible errors.
Keyword MonitoringMedia sites are high-profile targets for attacks and certificate issues. Monitor SSL across all domains and subdomains. Prevent security warnings that erode reader trust and trigger browser blocking.
SSL MonitoringMedia properties often use multiple domains and subdomains for content, assets, and ads. Monitor DNS records to detect misconfigurations, unauthorized changes, or propagation failures that make content unreachable.
DNS MonitoringMonitor origin servers, database instances, media asset servers, and video streaming infrastructure. Track the complete stack from content storage to reader delivery. Detect backend failures before they propagate.
Server MonitoringProvide a public status page showing the availability of your website, mobile app, and content feeds. Reduce support inquiries during outages and maintain transparency with your audience.
Status PagesEvery media property has faced these situations. Monitoring changes how your team responds.
A major story breaks and traffic surges 10x within minutes. Your site slows to a crawl, then goes down entirely. Readers can't access the story. Advertisers paid for placement on a page that's returning errors. Social media shares link to a broken page. By the time your team responds, the traffic spike has moved to competitors.
Website monitoring detects the slowdown within 60 seconds. Your team is alerted on Slack immediately and can scale infrastructure, activate caching, or enable CDN failover before the full outage occurs. Page speed monitoring shows real-time performance during the spike.
A JavaScript error in your ad tag prevents display ads from loading on article pages. The site works fine and articles render correctly, but no ads appear. Your ad operations team doesn't notice because the pages look normal. After three days, someone on the finance team flags an unusual dip in programmatic revenue.
Keyword monitoring checks that ad container elements and expected ad scripts are present on monitored pages. When the ad tag breaks, you're alerted within minutes and can fix the issue before significant revenue is lost.
Your CDN provider has a partial outage affecting nodes in Southeast Asia. Readers in those regions experience 15-second load times or timeouts. Your US-based team sees no issues. The problem persists for 8 hours until readers from the affected regions complain on social media.
Page speed monitoring tracks load times from multiple perspectives. When regional performance degrades significantly, your team is alerted and can work with the CDN provider or route traffic to alternative nodes.
An auto-updated WordPress plugin introduces a conflict that prevents new articles from being published. Existing content displays fine, but editors get errors when trying to save new posts. During a fast-moving news cycle, your editorial team can't publish for two hours because IT is unaware of the issue.
API monitoring validates the publishing endpoint. Keyword monitoring checks the CMS dashboard for expected elements. When the publishing flow breaks, IT is alerted immediately and can roll back the plugin or apply a fix while editors continue working.
Add your publishing URLs
Enter your homepage, article pages, CMS admin panel, RSS feed endpoints, and mobile app API URLs. Set check intervals from 1 to 60 minutes based on criticality.
Configure content verification
Add keyword checks for ad container elements, paywall scripts, and key page content. Set page speed thresholds to catch CDN degradation. Configure SSL monitoring for all domains.
Connect your team
Route alerts to your engineering Slack, editorial team email, or ad ops Telegram channel. Different monitors alert different teams based on what's affected.
Protect your readers and revenue
UptimeMonitorX checks your platform continuously. When something breaks, the right team knows in 60 seconds. Your readers always reach your content.
Start monitoring in 30 seconds. Free plan includes 5 monitors with email alerts. No credit card required.
Start Free MonitoringYes. With 1-minute check intervals, you'll know within 60 seconds if your site becomes slow or unresponsive during a traffic surge. This gives your team time to scale resources, enable CDN caching, or activate failover before readers are lost.
Keyword monitoring checks that specific ad container elements, scripts, or content are present on your pages. If an ad tag breaks or ad slots stop loading, you're alerted immediately rather than discovering the revenue loss days later in financial reports.
Absolutely. Create separate monitors for your website pages and mobile app API endpoints. Each can have independent check intervals and alert channels, giving you full coverage across all reader-facing platforms.
Core Web Vitals directly affect search rankings. Page speed monitoring tracks these metrics over time and alerts you when performance degrades. For media sites where organic search drives a significant portion of traffic, maintaining fast load times is critical for discoverability.
Yes. Use API monitoring to check your RSS feed endpoints for availability and expected content. Keyword monitoring can verify that feeds contain recent articles. This ensures syndication partners and feed readers always receive your latest content.
During outages, readers and advertisers want to know what's happening. A public status page reduces repetitive support inquiries, shows your team is actively addressing the issue, and maintains professional credibility during disruptions.
In a 24/7 news cycle, downtime doesn't pause. Make sure your platform is always ready for the next breaking story.