# Monitor your site's uptime

**Category:** Monitor · **Read time:** 5 min

A page that's down is invisible — to visitors *and* to the search and AI crawlers that decide whether you get found. Uptime monitoring catches an outage in minutes, not whenever a customer emails you: you protect revenue, and you protect your visibility, because crawlers that keep hitting a dead page can quietly drop it.

> **Before you start:** Uptime monitoring needs your sitemap connected — that is where MetaPilot finds your homepage. Once it is, monitoring is already on.

## How it works

1. **There is nothing to flag**
   Uptime monitoring is your **homepage**, armed automatically from your sitemap, on every plan including Free. No watchlist, no cap, no switch.

2. **MetaPilot polls it automatically**
   MetaPilotBot checks it on your plan's cadence — every 30 minutes on Free, every 5 minutes on paid plans — with a cache-busting parameter, so the check reaches your **origin** instead of being answered by your CDN.

3. **Make sure uptime alerts are on**
   MetaPilot emails members who've opted into uptime alerts when your homepage goes down — and again when it recovers, so you know it's resolved.

4. **You get one alert per event**
   Not one per failing check. One when it breaks, one when it recovers — so an outage doesn't bury your inbox.

5. **Every other page is covered by liveness**
   Turn on autopilot for a page and MetaPilot confirms the schema it maintains is still being served — and flags a page that has started 404ing right on its row. Every page on autopilot, on every plan.

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**Know the moment your site goes down.** Connect your sitemap and monitoring starts itself.