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Website Uptime Monitor With Email Alerts

Pings your site every two minutes to check availability, updating a public GitHub status page and sending an HTML email alert if it goes...

Verified 2026-07-07

Developer-EngineeringOps-IT

What it does

You get immediate HTML email alerts when your website goes down or returns an error, while a public GitHub status page automatically updates to reflect its current availability every two minutes. This ensures you and your visitors always know the site's operational status without manual checking.

How it works

When it runs: On a schedule · Scheduled · every 2 minutes
How hands-off: Assists you, you do the final step
Setup: An afternoon · about an afternoon
Works with: n8n, HTTP Request, Code, GitHub, Gmail

Tools that fit

Services

n8n : Workflow orchestration and automation logic

Code : Generating dynamic HTML status page content

GitHub : Hosting and updating the public status page

Gmail : Sending email alerts when site is down

api

HTTP Request : Pinging website URL to check availability

Watch out for

Frequent pinging can trigger rate limits on the target site so implement a reasonable interval like five minutes or more.
Email delivery failures will cause missing alerts so add error handling logic to retry or log failed sends.
GitHub API authentication tokens expire quickly so store them in n8n credentials and refresh them automatically.
False positives from temporary network glitches can spam your inbox so add a consecutive failure threshold before triggering an alert.

Seen in the wild

n8n: Automated Website Uptime Monitor with Email Alerts & GitHub Status Page Upd template

Want this running in your business?

This is what I do. I design and build AI agents like this one, and keep them running. If you want it set up for your team instead of doing it yourself, get in touch.

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Who it's for

Built for developers who want the busywork around code automated, not the code itself.

Ops-IT teams triaging their own internal requests get the same pattern, different queue.

Frequently asked questions

Who is this for?

developers and engineers and ops and IT teams, or anyone doing software development work who wants this handled automatically rather than manually.

How long does it take to set up?

An afternoon: plan for about an afternoon to get it running end to end.

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