Frequently Asked Questions

To prevent abuse and keep the service reliable. Card verification helps us reduce fake signups and automated monitoring spam. You will not be charged for the free site. You are only charged if you choose a paid plan.

The first site is free. Monitor up to 10 sites for just $1 per month.

If you need to monitor more than 10 sites, you can upgrade anytime to higher tiers.

We check your site once per minute (1-minute monitoring).

We perform an HTTP or HTTPS connectivity check and record the result along with response timing. For HTTPS sites, we also capture SSL certificate details such as issuer and expiration date.

You receive alerts by email when your site goes down or comes back up. If SSL expiration alerts are enabled, we will email you before your certificate expires.

Yes. For HTTPS sites we track SSL certificate expiration and can send proactive email alerts before certificates expire.

Public sites can be read through the public API. This is optional and controlled by you per site. If you do not mark a site as public, it will not appear in the public API.

Yes. Site Informant offers a public JSON API that lets developers and AI integrations access uptime, response time, and SSL expiration data for any site you’ve marked as public.

You can use the API to:

• Feed real-time status into dashboards, chatbots, or AI agents.
• Build custom uptime widgets and analytics.
• Trigger workflows in your own systems based on site status.

Documentation is available at siteinformant.com/Developers and the OpenAPI schema is available at /api/public/openapi.json.

Email alerts are available today. Slack, Discord, and DNS monitoring are planned improvements.

No. Site Informant is built to monitor your site’s availability and SSL health. We do not sell your data and we do not track your visitors.