Create a notification when the website is down

[PaulSnh]

Hello !

I’m currently using https://www.uptrends.fr/ to notify me whenever my website is down but I would like to replace this with a Cloudflare solution.

I’ve see that we could do something from the Health Check.

I’ve tried the native solution (I think they are native ?) with Health Check Notification “Passive Origin Monitoring”: Recieve an email when your origin becomes unreachable but it doesn’t do it when my website is down

I’ve also tried a custom one, creating a notification when a custom healthcheck “becoming unhealthy” but my notifications aren’t working as expected, the healthcheck is marked as failed but I don’t understand why

How could I manage to do it ?
Thanks in advance

[PaulSnh]

Here is my configuration for the health check rule

[sjr]

Did you set up the notification here…?
https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/notifications

[Chaika]

@PaulSnh

Recieve an email when your origin becomes unreachable but it doesn’t do it when my website is down

Passive Origin Monitoring, as it says, is passive and based on requests going through the CDN. You’d have to have a bunch of requests fail for it to think your origin is down, for a few “minutes” as it says.

@PaulSnh

the healthcheck is marked as failed but I don’t understand why

Check under Health Check Analytics → Event Log and expand one of the failing events/checks, and it should give you more information:

Magic Link: https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/traffic/health-check-analytics