---
title: What is UptimeTwin?
description: A quick overview of what UptimeTwin watches and how it lets you know when something breaks.
category: getting-started
updated: 2026-10-12
tags: [overview, introduction]
---

UptimeTwin watches your sites, servers and services from two independent clouds and
confirms a failure before it alerts you. Within your plan's AI allowance, the alert is
followed by an AI write-up of the likely cause and what to check first.

![The UptimeTwin live demo board, showing nine well-known sites as cards with a green bar for each recent check, a 24-hour uptime percentage, and the latest response time](/img/docs/live-demo-board.png)
*This is the [live demo](/demo) — the same board you get, pointed at nine well-known
sites. Each bar is one check; tall and green means the site answered.*

## What it does

- **Checks your services on a schedule** from our monitoring network — the U.S. by
  default, with other regions available on Pro, Business and MSP.
- **Alerts you** when something goes down, and again when it recovers — by email on
  any plan, and by Microsoft Teams, Google Chat or a webhook on Pro, Business or MSP.
- **Tracks history** so you can see uptime percentages and response-time trends over
  days, weeks, and months.
- **Watches the details that bite you later** — expiring SSL certificates, expiring
  domains, and cron jobs that quietly stop running.

## What you can monitor

You create **monitors** — each one is a single thing we check. UptimeTwin supports
nine monitor types, from a simple website check to a push-based heartbeat for your
backup scripts. See [Monitor types](/docs/monitors/overview) for the full list.

## How alerting stays quiet

A single blip in the middle of the night shouldn't wake you up. UptimeTwin only
raises an alert after a service fails several checks in a row, and it never spams —
you get one notification when a problem starts and one when it clears. You control
how sensitive this is per monitor. See [How alerts work](/docs/alerts/how-alerts-work).

## Get started

- [Create your first monitor](/docs/getting-started/quickstart)
- [Browse all monitor types](/docs/monitors/overview)

## Related

- [Your dashboard](/docs/getting-started/dashboard)
- [Plans & limits](/docs/account/plans-and-limits)