If you monitor more than a handful of sites, you've probably noticed that slow response alerts can get noisy. Each monitor triggers its own email, once per day, and if several sites are running slow at the same time, your inbox fills up fast with what's essentially the same message repeated for different URLs.
That bugged me too, so we fixed it.
Daily Digest for Slow Response Alerts
There's a new setting in your alert preferences called Delivery Mode for slow response alerts. You get two options:
- Daily Digest (the new default) - All your slow response alerts from the past 24 hours get bundled into a single email, sent at 9 AM. One email, one table showing which monitors were slow, what the response time was, and what your threshold is set to. Much easier to scan.
- Immediate - The original behaviour. Each slow monitor triggers its own email as soon as it's detected (still capped at once per day per monitor). Good if you only have a couple of monitors and want to know the second something slows down.
Telegram alerts always send immediately regardless of which mode you pick - they're less intrusive and you probably want those in real time.
The idea is simple: if you've got 15 monitors and 6 of them had slow responses overnight, you get one email at 9 AM with a clear summary instead of 6 separate emails scattered across the day. You can switch between modes at any time from your alert settings.
Scheduled Uptime Reports
This one's been on the roadmap for a while. You can now opt into weekly or monthly uptime reports - a scheduled email that lands in your inbox with a full breakdown of how your monitors performed.
Each report includes:
- Overall uptime percentage for the period
- Per-monitor breakdown with individual uptime %, average response time, and incident count
- A current status indicator for each monitor
- Total incident count across all monitors
- Average response time across your fleet
Weekly reports go out every Monday morning. Monthly reports go out on the 1st. You can pick one or neither from your alert settings - look for the Uptime Reports section near the top of the page.
The reports are sorted by uptime (worst performers first), so the monitors that need attention are right at the top. Uptime below 99.5% gets highlighted in amber, below 95% in red.
Why Bother With Email Reports?
Fair question - you can see all of this on your dashboard. But reports are useful for a couple of specific things:
Forwarding to clients. If you manage websites for other people, a weekly uptime report is a nice touch. "Here's how your site performed this week" looks professional and you don't have to do anything - it just arrives.
Spotting trends. When you log into a dashboard, you tend to check whether things are up right now. A periodic summary forces you to look at the bigger picture. That monitor with 97% uptime doesn't look alarming on any given day, but in a monthly report it stands out.
Paper trail. If you need to justify monitoring costs or demonstrate that you're staying on top of things, having regular reports in your email archive is useful evidence.
How It Works Behind the Scenes
The digest command runs daily at 9 AM. Throughout the day, when a slow response is detected and you're in digest mode, we stash the details in a cache key instead of sending an email immediately. The morning command collects everything from the previous day, sorts the monitors by response time (slowest first), and sends one consolidated email.
For uptime reports, a separate command runs at 9:30 AM every day but only actually sends on Mondays (for weekly) or the 1st (for monthly). It queries your check history for the period, calculates per-monitor stats using the same uptime formula as the dashboard, and generates the email.
Both features work with the existing alert settings - if email notifications are disabled globally, you won't receive digests or reports either. Same goes for slow response alerts being toggled off - the digest respects that.
What's Next
These two features are part of a broader push to make notifications smarter rather than just louder. Webhook notifications are next on the list, which will let you pipe alerts into Slack, Discord, or any system that accepts incoming webhooks. But that's for another update.
Check your alert settings to switch between immediate and digest mode for slow response alerts, or enable weekly/monthly uptime reports.