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Downtime alerts in Slack, the moment it matters

Connect your workspace once and UptimeEye posts to your channel when a site, API, SSL certificate, or cron job goes down — and again the second it recovers.

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Alerts when your site is actually down

Every check is confirmed from multiple regions before we post. No 3 a.m. channel storm over a blip that fixed itself.

Free on every plan

Slack alerts are included from the Free tier up — no SMS credits, no per-channel add-on, no calculator needed.

One place for every signal

Down, recovery, SSL expiry, and cron-job failures all land in the same channel with the monitor name and timestamp.

How to set up Slack alerts

What you'll need: A Slack workspace you can authorize · A target channel

  1. 1

    Connect your Slack workspace

    In UptimeEye, open Notifications → New channel → Slack and authorize the workspace in one click. No webhook URLs to copy or paste.

  2. 2

    Pick the channel

    Choose the channel the alerts should post to — a dedicated #alerts channel or wherever your on-call already watches.

  3. 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 Slack 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

  • Route production downtime to #incidents and staging to #eng so the noise stays separate.
  • Give a client their own channel with alerts for the sites you manage for them.
  • Catch an expiring SSL certificate weeks before it takes the site down.

Slack monitoring FAQ

Do Slack alerts cost extra?

No. Slack notifications are included on every plan, including the free tier. There are no SMS-style credits and no per-channel add-on.

Will I get spammed with false alarms?

UptimeEye confirms a failure from multiple regions before it alerts, so a single flaky check from one location won't wake the channel. You also get a recovery message when the service comes back.

Can I send different monitors to different channels?

Yes. Create a Slack channel per team, client, or severity and attach each to the relevant monitors, cron jobs, and status pages.

What information is in each alert?

The monitor or task name, whether it went down or recovered, and the timestamp — enough to know what broke and when without leaving Slack.

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Monitor your websites, APIs, and cron jobs and send verified Slack alerts — free on every plan.

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