Provider · AWSWarning
Elevated error rates in us-east-1
Your app returns 200 OK because retries succeed. Background jobs are silently failing.
Uptime monitoring tells you when you're already broken.
Crowswatch monitors providers, APIs, domains and infrastructure dependencies in one operational view. You see what changed before customers notice, not after your URL stops responding.
Uptime checksProvider incidentsDomain healthDependency chain
Live operational view
Everything UptimeRobot misses, in one pane.
Providers, APIs, domains and infrastructure events surface in the same operational stream. URL checks are one signal, not the whole picture.
Services
18 monitored
Cloudflare
Investigating edge latency
AWS
Elevated error rates, us-east-1
GitHub
Degraded Actions performance
Stripe
All systems operational
Google Cloud
All systems operational
Domain Health
4 domains
embercheckout.com
SSL certificate expires in 12 days
northstarcommerce.com
DMARC policy not enforced
atlas-mail.io
MX records changed recently
harbour-retail.co.uk
SPF includes too many lookups
Web & API Checks
12 checks
Homepage load time
Elevated at 2.8s, up from 1.1s
Login endpoint
Intermittent, 3 failures this hour
Checkout API
Responding normally, avg 240ms
Pricing page keyword
Content check passed
Search endpoint
Responding normally, avg 180ms
Provider Incidents
Open Incident Centre
Investigating elevated latency at the edge
Cloudflare · 8m ago
Critical
Increased error rates in us-east-1
AWS · 41m ago
Warning
Edge function cold starts elevated
Vercel · 1h ago
Warning
Degraded performance for Actions
GitHub · 2h ago
Warning
Recent activity
- 9m ago
Cloudflare incident detected
Provider monitoring
- 14m ago
Checkout API latency increased
Web & API checks
- 38m ago
SSL certificate expiring soon
embercheckout.com
- 41m ago
Tracker battery low
HoldMyGear
- 44m ago
Stripe operational again
Connected services
- 2h ago
Login flow recovered
Journey checks
Dependency awareness
One outage. Four connected signals.
UptimeRobot would have returned four green HTTP 200s through this entire chain. Crowswatch treats every step as one event, with attribution back to the upstream cause.
- 14:32ProviderCritical
Cloudflare reports edge latency in EU-West
Pulled directly from Cloudflare status. Affects worker invocations and edge routing.
- 14:33API checkWarning
Checkout API latency elevated to 2.8s
p95 up from 240ms. Live API check on checkout.api/v1/charge.
Linked to Cloudflare incident above.
- 14:34Provider eventWarning
Stripe retry rate climbing to 12%
Stripe webhook retries elevated. Downstream of degraded checkout API.
Linked to Checkout API degradation.
- 14:35Customer journeyCritical
Checkout completion rate dropped 18%
Synthetic purchase journey failing on payment confirmation step.
Customer impact attributed to upstream chain.
Beyond URL checks
Six things a 200 OK won't tell you.
Every scenario below is invisible to URL-only monitoring. Each one shows up as its own event in the Crowswatch operational stream.
Domain · embercheckout.comCritical
SSL certificate expires in 12 days
No outage yet. By the time your URL stops responding, the cert is already invalid.
Domain · atlas-mail.ioWarning
MX records changed unexpectedly
Email delivery degrading. Uptime check on the website is unaffected.
Domain · harbour-retail.co.ukWarning
SPF includes too many DNS lookups
Mail providers begin to mark inbound as suspicious. Your homepage still responds.
API · CheckoutCritical
Checkout submits succeed, Stripe rejects
200 OK at the URL boundary. Payment confirmation fails silently downstream.
Provider · CloudflareWarning
Edge cache hit rate dropped 40%
Origin load climbing, response times degrading. URLs still return 200 OK.
Coverage comparison
Same URL checks. Operational context UptimeRobot can't see.
Coverage areaUptimeRobotCrowswatch
HTTP / HTTPS endpoint checksResponse code and timeResponse code, latency trend, content drift, partial degradation
Provider incidentsNot coveredLive incidents from 150+ providers pulled from their own status infrastructure
Domain healthNot coveredSSL expiry, DNS drift, DMARC, SPF, MX changes, registrar expiry
Dependency mappingNot coveredUpstream provider → API → journey → customer impact, attributed
Customer journey checksKeyword presenceEnd-to-end synthetic flows: login, checkout, lead capture, revenue
Infrastructure eventsNot coveredCloudflare cache, Akamai edge, AWS region health, alongside your URLs
Unified operational streamNot coveredEvery signal in one timeline, severity-coded and attributed
The same incident, two timelines
UptimeRobot finds out 19 minutes after the customer.
Both tools watching the same checkout endpoint. URL-only checks stay green until the URL itself fails. Operational visibility surfaces propagation as it happens.
UptimeRobot timeline
- 14:30HTTP 200 OK
- 14:32HTTP 200 OK
- 14:33HTTP 200 OK
- 14:34HTTP 200 OK
- 14:35HTTP 200 OK
- 14:51HTTP 503 Down
Crowswatch timeline
- 14:30
All services operational
baseline
- 14:32
Cloudflare investigating edge latency
Provider incident
- 14:33
Checkout API p95 latency 2.8s, up from 240ms
API check
- 14:34
Stripe retry rate climbing past 12%
Provider event
- 14:35
Checkout completion rate dropped 18%
Customer journey
- 14:51
Outage now visible at the URL boundary
URL check
Same incident. 19 minutes earlier signal. Attribution included.
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