Uptime scout

Free uptime monitoring application

Understanding the importance of keeping your website's downtime to the minimum, we have developed Integrio Uptime Scout – small tray application that allows you to monitor the availability (uptime) of your website(s) and notifies you if the website (or the server) goes down. Uptime Scout supports different notification methods, such as popup messages, sound alerts and email. Alert notifications can also trigger execution of user defined commands or a third-party application.

If you are already signed up for commercial web monitoring service, Uptime Scout is still useful - in most cases it notifies you much faster because alert immediately pops up on your screen, and monitoring frequency can be set as low as 30 seconds (most commercial web services offer 5 minute minimum which makes a big difference when the site goes down). It also does not have the delay of email or SMS delivery which in some cases might be critical. Application easily installs into your tray and can be run under any recent version of Windows. Uptime Scout is distributed as freeware and can be downloaded here.