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New Update:
Chart bar will only turn red if the downtime is 5 mins and above but it will still show the downtime minutes if hovered, the same thing downtime records will be showed in the -activity section.

Update: Timezone is added

I just created a webpage for uptime status monitor for bitcointalk. It might not be so useful everyday but it will be soon :)

This works on visiting the forum website for 1 minute interval and capture response time and status code in every visit.
Status code >=200 && <300 is good while >=300 && <=511 is bad which always considered as downtime error.

The Current status will show if the website is Up (Operational) or down (Downtime) with green and red indicators.

It will record and show the last 60 days of uptime status of the website in desktop mode and 30 days in mobile mode by default.

Screen capture
https://i.ibb.co/1rLDdph/IMG-20240405-160127.jpg (https://pxzone.online/uptime/bitcointalk)

URL: https://pxzone.online/uptime/bitcointalk
Github: https://github.com/pxzone/pxzone.online

It'd be better if you could add a daily/weekly/monthly toggle button above or under the line graph ^{[it'll come in handy when there's more data]}.

Regarding the downtime activity section, does it also record the length, or it's limited to only showing the status codes when Bitcointalk is down?

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/Bookmarked :)

Now that you mentioned it, i never thought that, will add it, thanks.

Ah, yeah, it shows nothing there yet, it will show like this (image below) from altcoinstalks' uptime status page. Let me know what your thoughts and suggestions for this section

https://i.ibb.co/RbRL4Rs/45632222.png (https://pxzone.online/uptime/altcoinstalks)

Thanks :)

Excellent just what we all needed we don't have to check downforeveryoneorjustme.com or any other application to check Bitcointalk's uptime and downtime, whenever there is a downtime, we now have a dedicated one.
Have bookmarked it.

Thanks, this is only experimental at the moment, but i have seen some downtime records on other websites i monitored, so this will probably record all the downtime of the forum too.
Btw the date recorded on the website page is in UTC+8 but i can adjust it on forum's timezone.

Another great tool contributed by very own member  ;)
Thanks for your contribution @PX-Z, this will be very helpful whenever the forum faces attacks and members are not sure what's going on

Yeah, it makes more sense if it uses the same timezone as the forum's default.

It's a very useful because many users face troubles when Bitcointalk goes down. Some members think that they might be having issues from their side but it's actually the website's server side issue. Your development skills are quite helpful for the users and I truly appreciate your efforts for making such useful sites and tools.

Nice one Px-z. I don't know if you are aware but we have a similar service already which is useful too. But not many of us are aware of it. TryNinja also running a similar service, which is this one https://status.ninjastic.space/

But his website says it's the status of his own website. But we can check the Bitcointalk downtime by checking posts scraper time because the bot goes down with the Bitcointalk website. Now, your addition is a good one. We can use the other one when one is down.  ;)

It’s pretty accurate since forum down === scraper down. However, there is also a small chance my server crashes or has an internet connection loss and that counts as the same.

But good idea having a separate field for the forum direct uptime (I.e when the forum doesn’t returns status 200, like OP is doing). I might implement the same.

I didn't know about this actually, i was inspired when i saw the uptime status page of the talkimg website by joker_josue when i discuss an  error (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5450546.msg63713849#msg63713849) i experienced, that's why i made one. And research some similar service and those ideas in one page :)

Yes, this is indeed one of the reason why a third-party uptime web status monitor is somewhat necessary for more accurate results.

It is definitely better to be synchronized with the time zone of the forum.

note: I'm glad that you finally presented your tools here.  ;) Or maybe you did earlier, but I didn't see it.

I believe the forum uses UCT, as all international websites should. 

Another innovation only dedicated to the forum and it is easy to use and understand. But, the question that comes to my mind is why we need it when we have websites like uptimerobot. I have personally used this website and they are very effective with thier emails on uptime and downtime. Those graphs that your website is shows can also be seen with the named website.

If you can collaborate with TryNinja and integrate your website results wit telegram notification then it would be great. As it will be easier to get notification fast if the forum goes down through telegram.

And what if telegram goes down?   :P   It can never hurt to have more monitors; even though just hitting the forum is a waste - you should do something with the data you receive. 

Yes, i'm currently working on it.

Yes i have them here Bitcoin Price, Blocks, etc. to Image (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437954.msg61704011#msg61704011) :)

Good question, while these premium websites have the advantages for obvious reasons, this site i made is just experimental, free, open source and i can say much on point. I checked the free plan for uptimerobot is 5 minute interval while this page monitoring the site for every 1 minute interval which has the same features on their paid ones.

I remember a time when this forum went down regularly, when mass bot attacks spammed it. I have to say, Bitcointalk admins have stepped up in security counter measures since then and it is a lot more stable now.

It is in the nature of all things IT that a new exploit might be found and that we will once again.. have a repeat of the scenario we had back then. I bookmarked the URL and added it to my monitoring tools to troubleshoot my sites that I access regularly.

Thank you very much... now develop a tool for Preev.com with an alert option for the people that are maintaining it.  ;D

I added preev to be monitored :) You can check it here^[1]. I'm thinking if what tool i will use for notification, i can do telegram notification as well as email, but didn't added email configuration on my site yet though.

Thanks :)

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Timezone is added, it shows in GMT for bitcointalk uptime page particularly in the "Recent Downtime Activity" section.

[1] https://pxzone.online/uptime/preev

I didn't know you made this tool for Bitcointalk forum also, but it looks a lot like ninjastic.space status page.
My suggestion is the same like I said about alternative forum, you should increase time interval for checking if website is available or not.
I am not sure how other similar services are doing this, but I am sure they are checking more than 1 minute time frame  ;)

 

I'm truly proud that so many members care about this forum. Bitcointalk merit notifier, bpip.org, loyce's tools, others and now this. If so many members will unite and theymos gives them some funding, we will have a good team that will probably finish epochtalk. I personally can work on UI/UX side, this is my profession.

OP your website is nice and I love the features but what will happen if somehow your server goes down for some minutes? Does that count as a downtime for Bitcointalk in the charts history? Or it will show a delay in chat?

Actually most uptime status page looks like the same :)

Yes, i take note that and will consider this on the next update. Thanks :)

It means it cannot record the uptime or downtime of bitcointalk on that specific time.

Talking about the epochtalk^[1], the last commit of that project was 3 years ago i don't know if theymos or devs still have the plan to continue that development.

[1] https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk

You'd think with the exponential bitcoin price rise since they were given the bitcoin, they would hire professionals to finish it for 1/100th of what they received.    I have never understood the mentality of "never enough". 

Update:

Chart bar will only turn red if the downtime is 5 mins and above but it will still show the downtime in minutes if hovered, the same thing downtime records will be showed in the activity section.

Moved to Meta board since most forum related developments posted here. Correct me if i'm wrong though so i can move this back to project development.

Regards.