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Uptrends

INFRA · APIS
Velocity2.5

Website, API and server monitoring with synthetic and real user performance checks

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Synthetic monitoring built for people who script their checks, not click them.

synthetic-monitoringapi-monitoringobservabilityopentelemetryenterpriseauthentication
◆Current state
Uptrends is a synthetic and digital experience monitoring service, and its recent releases cluster around multi-step API monitoring: bearer token authentication per API call, JWT encode and decode functions for signing and reading tokens, and a 30-second check interval for new Enterprise accounts. Around that sit account and workflow improvements — duplicable custom integrations, maintenance-period filtering by schedule attributes, SSL certificate monitors gaining the same HTTP and TLS version options as HTTPS monitors, and automatic SSO redirect at login. The August entry is a support-matrix change rather than a feature: Windows Server 2019 is no longer offered for new private location installations.
◆Where it's heading
The product is being shaped around authenticated, scripted API checks rather than simple uptime pings, and the pieces arriving are the ones that make a monitor look like a real client — token signing, per-call authentication, sub-minute frequency. The second direction is outward: OpenTelemetry export lets monitoring results land in Elastic, New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus or ITRS alongside application and infrastructure telemetry, and the Terraform Hub can emit import blocks for individual resources. Both point at customers who already run an observability stack and want Uptrends inside it rather than beside it.
◆Prediction
Expect the Enterprise tier to keep receiving the sharper capabilities first, since both the 30-second interval and OpenTelemetry export shipped that way, and expect further authentication methods for multi-step API monitors given the run from bearer tokens through JWT functions.

◆Recent moves

  1. 15d ago

    Windows Server 2022 is now the minimum for new private location installations

    The Windows Server 2019 installer is withdrawn for new private locations, making Server 2022 the minimum, while existing 2019 installations stay supported with updated container images. A support-matrix change that affects only new deployments.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Monitor API behavior every 30 seconds

    New Enterprise accounts can run multi-step API monitors every 30 seconds instead of every minute, halving worst-case detection time on the checks customers care most about. Gated to a tier, which is where the sharper capabilities in this feed tend to land.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Authenticate multi-step APIs with bearer tokens

    Multi-step API monitors can authenticate individual calls with a bearer token, which Uptrends then attaches to each request's Authorization header. One of the pieces that lets a synthetic check exercise an authenticated API rather than only its public edge.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Duplicate custom integrations to create new ones faster

    Custom integrations can be saved as copies, so a working configuration can be reused rather than rebuilt. It does not extend to built-in or third-party integrations with their own setup flows, which limits it to the teams already maintaining several hand-rolled ones.

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  5. 2mo ago

    Introducing Uptrends OpenTelemetry export

    Monitoring results from selected monitor groups can be exported to an OpenTelemetry collector, putting digital experience data next to application, infrastructure and log telemetry in Elastic, New Relic, Splunk or Prometheus. It requires contacting support to enable, so it is a supported capability rather than a self-serve one.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Introducing JSON Web Token (JWT) user-defined functions

    JWT encode and decode become user-defined functions in multi-step API monitors, letting a check sign its own token with a key and read claims back out. Together with bearer authentication it removes the main reason these monitors previously needed an external step.

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