---
title: "Monitoring Types"
description: "Uptimeify supports a wide range of monitor types: from HTTP uptime, keyword, and SSL checks to DNS, network services, and synthetic browser flows. Pick the type that matches what you need to watch."
---

## Website & HTTP

<Cards>
  <Card title="Uptime Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/uptime">
    HTTP/HTTPS availability and status-code checks for your websites.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Keyword Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/keyword">
    Verify expected text is present (or absent) in the response body.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Response Time Check" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/response-time">
    Alert when a site responds slower than your threshold.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Page Size Check" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/page-size">
    Track the response payload size and catch unexpected bloat.
  </Card>
  <Card title="HTTPS Redirect Check" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/https-redirect">
    Confirm HTTP correctly redirects to HTTPS (with HSTS).
  </Card>
  <Card title="SSL Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/ssl">
    Catch expiring or invalid TLS certificates before they break trust.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Network & Services

<Cards>
  <Card title="ICMP Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/icmp">
    Ping a host to check reachability and packet loss.
  </Card>
  <Card title="SMTP Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/smtp">
    Check that mail servers accept connections on the SMTP port.
  </Card>
  <Card title="IMAP/POP Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/imap-pop">
    Monitor inbound mail retrieval services.
  </Card>
  <Card title="SSH Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/ssh">
    Verify SSH endpoints are listening and reachable.
  </Card>
  <Card title="TCP Port Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/tcp-port">
    Check that any raw TCP port (databases, caches, queues) is open and accepting connections.
  </Card>
  <Card title="FTP Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/ftp">
    Check that FTP servers respond on their configured port.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## DNS & Domain

<Cards>
  <Card title="DNS Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/dns">
    Watch A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME and other records for changes.
  </Card>
  <Card title="DNSBL Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/dnsbl">
    Detect when your IPs land on DNS blocklists.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Domain Expiry Monitoring" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/domain-expiry">
    Get warned well before a domain registration lapses.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Advanced

<Cards>
  <Card title="Heartbeat Monitoring (Cron)" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/heartbeat">
    Be alerted when a scheduled job stops checking in.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Playwright Monitor" href="/monitoring/monitoring-types/playwright">
    Synthetic browser flows that test real user journeys.
  </Card>
</Cards>