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 source in PingBell
Sign up. Visit PingBell.io and start a free trial. Sign in at my.pingbell.io, open the Sources page, and create a new source (custom webhook).
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 so the alert reaches their phones.
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 (from PingBell’s settings).
Pick which source 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: Put the counter on a board
Design a board. In PingBell, design a board with a counter block bound to your Uptime.com source. Counter resets are useful here — reset daily for “alerts today” or weekly for “alerts this week”.
Customize the look. Pick fonts and your team’s brand colors. For an alerting counter you might want red. For a recovery counter, green.
Put it on the engineering TV. Install the PingBell TV app — it shows a short pairing code. Enter it on the Screens page at my.pingbell.io (or scan the QR) and cast the board.
Step 4: View analytics
Open the Activity page to see its alert volume — today, the last 7 days, or any range back to all-time. 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.