Website Monitoring for Small and Medium Businesses
You run an SMB and don’t have an IT department watching logs at night. Your website still needs to work – otherwise customers call the owner. live24h is set up in 5 minutes, needs no DevOps knowledge and only calls you when it really matters.
The Problem: Your Website is Down, and You’re the Last to Know
Classic SMB case: your IT provider is external, hosting lives somewhere, and when the website goes down, customers call the boss. Concretely:
- No monitoring – or an old one nobody has opened in years
- No alerts – the server is down but no message arrives
- SSL certificate expires – and nobody remembers in time
- Over-engineered tools – Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog: cool for DevOps, useless for you
- Status page? Would be nice – but an extra piece of software for 1-3 sites doesn’t pay off
In short: you don’t need a monitoring system built for Netflix. You need something that runs when your company site goes down – and tells you in time.
The Solution: Monitoring That Works Without a DevOps Team
live24h is explicitly built for SMBs and company websites:
- Setup in 5 minutes – enter URL, set alert address, done
- No configuration needed – sensible defaults for 95% of cases
- Alerts where you see them – email, Telegram, Slack, SMS (optional)
- SSL and domain warnings included – 30/14/7/1 days before expiry
- Free status page – communicate transparently when something breaks
- English and German UI + native-language support – no translation rabbit hole
What Do You Typically Monitor?
For a typical company website, 5-10 checks are enough:
| Check | Why |
|---|---|
| Home page | The most important page |
| Contact form / imprint | Legally required |
| Shop or appointment booking (if any) | Revenue-critical |
| SSL certificate | Browsers block otherwise |
| Domain expiry | Mini-apocalypse when forgotten |
| DNS | In case someone accidentally changes it |
This easily fits into the free plan (15 slots, 5-min interval, 1 region) – enough for smaller sites. If you want more, Pro at EUR 9.90/month (25 slots, 1 min, multi-region).
Alert Channels: Where You’ll Actually See Them
We know: nobody checks email in the evening. So live24h supports:
- Email – for the record and quiet cases
- Telegram – for the boss channel everyone has on their phone
- Slack / Microsoft Teams – for the internal team or the IT agency
- SMS (Business and up) – when it really burns
- Webhook – for anyone who wants to build on top
Every alert contains an acknowledge button via email – one click, further escalation stops. No login, no app download.
Status Page: Communicate Before the Phone Rings
A free status page at your-company.status.live24h.eu (or own domain
from Pro upwards):
- Customers see: “website currently unavailable, team is working on it”
- Instead of 20 calls to reception, you get 20 happy refreshes of the status page
- History of recent incidents – shows that things usually run smoothly
- Subscribable for important customers
Why live24h for SMBs?
| live24h | DevOps tools (Datadog, Grafana & co) | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | 5 minutes, no training | Multiple days, often with a consultant |
| English/German UI and support | Yes | Rarely |
| GDPR / DPA readily available | Yes | Often enterprise-only |
| Entry price | EUR 0 (free) | Often three-digit per month |
| SSL + domain warnings | Standard | Often extra setup |
| Built for non-DevOps? | Yes | No |
Start Free Now
The free plan (15 checks, 5-min interval) is free forever. If you need more, start the 14-day free Pro trial.
Read on:
- All plans and pricing: Pricing
- All features in detail: Features
- Shop monitoring: E-Commerce
- Monitoring for agencies: Agencies
Questions? Contact us: support@live24h.eu