Guides

Short, specific guides for the problems that actually come up — mostly involving a firewall that does not know your monitor is yours.

Cloudflare uptime monitoring

How to monitor a site that sits behind Cloudflare: what the cache hides, which status codes come from the edge rather than your origin, and how to check the origin itself.

Allow us through a Cloudflare WAF

A step-by-step WAF skip rule for Pingdomain checks, using Web Bot Auth signatures rather than an IP list — so the rule keeps working when the addresses change.

Cloudflare blocks my monitor

Why your uptime monitor suddenly reports 403 or "Just a moment…", how to tell a bot challenge apart from a real outage, and the three ways to fix it for good.

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