Uptime.com is a great monitoring tool, but its default notifications — email, SMS, the usual suspects — aren’t always great at getting the team’s attention in real time. With PingBell wired in, every uptime alert (or, just as importantly, every recovery) rings a sound on every team phone and ticks a counter on the engineering TV.
What is PingBell?
PingBell is a web and mobile app that lets you create custom notifications for events on websites and apps — including Uptime.com. Every event fires a push, increments a counter, and adds a point to a real-time graph.
Step 1: Create a PingBell
Sign up. Visit PingBell.io and create a free account. Click the button in the middle of the dashboard to create your first PingBell.
Configure it. Set a title (“Site down”, “Check recovered”, “Uptime alert”). Pick a distinct sound — you want the team to recognize this one immediately. Invite the on-call rotation by username or email.
Step 2: Set up the Uptime.com trigger via Zapier
Create a Zap. Sign in to Zapier and click Create Zap.
Pick the Uptime.com trigger. Search for Uptime.com and pick an alert event. You’ll authenticate using your Uptime.com API key.
Set the PingBell action. Search for PingBell, select Notify PingBell, paste your PingBell API key (user icon → Settings).
Pick which PingBell to notify. Select the one you set up in Step 1.
Test the Zap with a manual trigger or a forced check failure.
Step 3: Customize the counter view
Open the view. Click the celebration icon next to your PingBell. Hover the right side of the screen for settings.
Enable the visual counter. Toggle it on. Counter resets are useful here — reset daily for “alerts today” or weekly for “alerts this week”.
Customize the look. Pick a Google Font and your team’s brand colors. For an alerting counter you might want red. For a recovery counter, green.
Step 4: View analytics
The graph icon next to each PingBell shows alert volume over the past 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days. Useful for catching trend changes in your monitoring noise.
Try it
A high-priority alert that everyone hears is the difference between a 10-minute outage and a 60-minute one. Start a free 7-day trial, wire in your Uptime.com checks, and the next failure will be impossible to miss.