Monitor Website Uptime using GitHub Actions

How to Monitor any website uptime using GitHub Actions for free

Create your own website monitor in seconds!

Step 1

Create a new repository, I’ll name it piyushmehta.com

Step 2

Create a directory named and workflows inside it .github/workflows

Step 3

Create a file with any name, I’ll name is uptime-monitor.yml

Step 4

Write the following in uptime-monitor.yaml

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1name: Uptime Monitor
2
3on:
4  schedule:
5    # Run every hour, You can choose your custom time
6    - cron: '*/60 *  * * *'
7
8jobs:
9  ping_site:
10    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
11    name: Uptime Check
12    steps:
13      - name: Ping Site
14        uses: srt32/uptime@v0.2
15        with:
16          url-to-hit: 'https://piyushmehta.com/' # Website whose uptime you want to track
17          expected-statuses: '200'

Whenever your website is down, you’ll get a notification from GitHub.

Fin!