When critical APIs or websites become unavailable, your team should detect it before customers do. Waiting for external complaints increases both incident duration and reputation risk. Uptime monitoring checks configured URLs at fixed intervals, tracks response time and status codes, and alerts you when availability drops.
In the Engarde membership free tier, you can define up to 5 monitors, run checks every minute, and receive downtime alerts (email and in-app). Region-based outage visibility and uptime/response-time charts (7-30 days) help both rapid response and root-cause analysis.
Using monitors together with planned DDoS and performance tests gives coverage for both "is target reachable now?" and "is behavior degrading over time?". See plan details for feature limits and roadmap.
For many small teams, the 5-monitor free setup is enough for critical endpoints. If you need broader coverage or tighter cadence, move to higher plans. Region-level outage context is especially useful for distinguishing CDN or location-specific issues.
For detailed steps, see our documentation and training center pages. Documentation · Training. For product-level details, see Engarde DDoS and LoadEng.