Downtime alerts straight to your inbox
The simplest channel there is: UptimeEye emails one or more addresses whenever a site, API, SSL certificate, or cron job goes down — and when it recovers.
No credit card · Free tier · Commercial use allowed
Works everywhere, needs nothing
No app, no bot, no webhook. Add an address and you're monitoring — a default email channel is even set up for you at onboarding.
One alert, many inboxes
Send each channel to a whole list — on-call, a shared team alias, and a client contact — from a single monitor.
Real alerts, not noise
Failures are confirmed from multiple regions before an email goes out, with a recovery email to close the loop.
How to set up Email alerts
What you'll need: One or more email addresses
- 1
Add the recipient addresses
In UptimeEye, open Notifications → New channel → Email and enter one or more addresses.
- 2
Send a test
Fire a test alert to confirm it lands (and isn't caught by a spam filter) before you rely on it.
- 3
Attach it to what you monitor
Add the channel to any monitor, cron job, SSL check, or status page — on every plan, including Free. Send a test alert to confirm it lands where your team actually looks.
What triggers a Email alert
Downtime & recovery
When a monitored website, API, or server goes down — confirmed from multiple regions — and again the moment it recovers.
SSL certificate expiry
Early warnings before a TLS certificate expires, so you renew before it takes the site offline.
Cron & scheduled-task failures
Dead Man's Switch alerts when a scheduled job fails or misses its window, so silent background jobs never rot unnoticed.
Ways teams use it
- Send a shared team alias so nothing depends on one person watching a chat.
- Loop a client contact in on alerts for the sites you run for them.
- Keep a paper trail of every outage and recovery in your inbox.
Email monitoring FAQ
Can one channel email several people?
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What if the emails go to spam?
Get alerted before your users notice
Monitor your websites, APIs, and cron jobs and send verified Email alerts — free on every plan.
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