Website Uptime Monitoring (HTTP/HTTPS)

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I would like to monitor my hosted website but the server does not respond on ping and I can not monitor it with SNMP. Which possibilities do I have to monitor my website?
I checked the documentation and tried to use the TCP sensor or NMAP device tracker. This did not work in my case. Any suggestions by the community?

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You might try using www.uptimerobot.com. It has a free tier. If you want to integrate it they have an open JSON API.

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Hello Metbril

Thanks for you suggestion. Certainly a good idea. I will check their API to figure out how I can implement it.

All the best

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I know it is an old topic but I ended up using UptimeRobot (Free API) in combination with a command line CURL sensor.

You need to specify a “monitor-specific api_key” on your UptimeRobot Dashboard.

FREE planfor the API is currently : 10 req/min
Home Assistant will scan every 150 seconds (2.5 Minutes). The Free Plan will check online status every 5 Minutes.

Put this in your configuration.yaml and restart Home Assistant Service.

  # Website - xYz.com Uptime Sensor
  - platform: command_line
    name: Website xYz.com Uptime Sensor
    command: 'curl -X POST -H ''Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'' -H ''Cache-Control: no-cache'' -d ''api_key=PUTyourAPIkeyHERE&format=json&logs=1'' ''https://api.uptimerobot.com/v2/getMonitors'' | jq .monitors[].logs[].reason.detail | head -n 1 | tr -d ''"'''
    scan_interval: 150
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Hello; It could be the open source Uptime Kuma, but it needs a little more attention. Instead, there is an application called RobotAlp that you can use for free indefinitely. The uptime monitoring tool pings every 3 minutes from different countries and notifies you by e-mail. Or mobile message.