The Blacklist monitor provides a simple and easy way to test your domain against several known blacklists. It provides this information at a glance on your Domain Overview page. How to enable Enabling takes just a few clicks. Click on the “Settings” link in the “Record Monitoring” infobox. In the “Alert […]
Integrating with Terraform
Terraform is a platform for building, combining and launching infrastructure. It’s a downloadable software that’s supported over most operating systems, and it’s possible to integrate this tool with Statuscake in order to create and configure tests. First off you should log in to your Statuscake Account , grab your username from the User […]
Integrating with Geckoboard
Geckoboard is a data dashboard service for Businesses, it’s possible to integrate this service with Statuscake in order to receive live information on uptime and response speed straight into your Geckoboard. First thing’s first, log in to your account, or if you don’t have one yet – this can be […]
Email Transaction Type
Our SMTP testing has two options, the option you pick depends on your setup. We’ve made this short guide below to help you pick the right option for you. Complete Transaction Complete transaction tests every part of your SMTP server and will send an outbound mail to one of our […]
Creating a Contact Group for alerts
In order to get alerts when a test goes down on Statuscake you will need to set up a Contact group. This will effectively contain a list of contact methods that alerts can be fired out to from various tests. There are a total of 4 different alert types we […]
Finding the TestID
Every test that you create with Statuscake has a unique ID number, sometimes it can be useful to know the ID for a test when working with the API or alerts, tests are specified with the ID through the API, and the TestID also comes through with all the alerts. In […]
Integrating with Leftronic
Using your Statuscake API key it’s possible to integrate with the Leftronic service and display information on tests, recent alerts and load times in the dashboard. First off you will need to sign up for an account with this service if you haven’t already, you can do that by following […]
Using Email Templates
With the Business plan and above you will gain access to the Email Templates feature. This allows you to fully customise and even brand the alerts and reports which are sent out from the account. You have the option to edit 4 different templates: The template used for when a test […]
Page Speed F.A.Q
What is Page Speed Monitoring? Page Speed monitoring isn’t about detecting if your site is currently up or down (regular HTTP monitoring provided by StatusCake can do that), rather it’s about monitoring the performance of your site from a real Chrome browser instance and alerting you when thresholds have been […]
Getting Alerts from an Integration
This article will cover the correct methods for integrating StatusCake with third party services for alert sends. Just select the integration you would like to set up below, in order to get the instructions. Datadog Discord MatterMost Microsoft Teams OpsGenie Pagerduty Phone Call Pushbullet Pushover Slack Telegram Zenduty Once an […]