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How Monitoring Works

Clearwatch sends an HTTP request to your website at regular intervals. If your site responds with an error or doesn’t respond at all, we mark it as down and send you an email.

Check intervals

The frequency of checks depends on your plan:
PlanCheck intervalChecks per day
FreeEvery 5 minutes288
StarterEvery 3 minutes480
ProEvery 1 minute1,440

What we check

By default, we monitor your homepage. If you verify ownership of your site, we can discover and monitor additional pages automatically.

What counts as “down”

Your site is marked as down when:
  • It doesn’t respond within 30 seconds
  • It returns an HTTP error (status code outside 200-299)
  • The connection is refused or times out
When your site recovers, we send you a follow-up email with how long it was down.