You can use Google Docs to monitor your website’s uptime and get instant
alerts if your site is down or unavailable to visitors.
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| Monitoring Tool |
The latest version of this Google Docs based website monitoring tool is
even better:
1. now monitor multiple websites and blogs for downtime/uptime in one go
2. In addition to email alerts, you can now choose to receive SMS alerts
on our phone if any of your sites are down
3. The text alerts are routed through Google Calendar and are therefore
free
This is the only tool that lets you monitor unlimited number of website
domains and offers both SMS and email based alerts without charging any amount.
The one big advantage with Google Docs is that it can be
configured to check your website status every minute and thus you’ll instantly
know if your site is down.
Steps to configure Google Docs as an uptime monitor for
your website:
1.
Assuming that you are signed-in to your Google Account, click here to make a copy of the Google Docs
sheet.
2.
Put your website’s URL and your email address. This is the
address where you wish to receive notifications for downtime and uptime.
3.
Go to Tools –> Script Editor –> Resources –>
Current Script’s Triggers and set a Time-Driven
trigger for every minute (or 5 minutes).
4.
Save the Trigger and Google Docs will show a big red
warning asking for authorization. Just accept it and Save the trigger again.
That's it. The Google Docs sheet will monitor your website
in the background at all times and will send an email alert whenever it has
trouble accessing the website. If the issue is resolved, you'll get another
notification saying "all’s well."
Also, the downtime details (including the server responses)
are logged in the Google Docs sheet itself so you can later analyze the
downtime in greater detail. You can browse the source code to understand how
monitoring works behind the scenes.
If you aren’t getting text alerts on your phone, please
ensure that your phone number is associated with Google Calendar.
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