Uptime.com · Rate Limits

Uptime Com Rate Limits

The Uptime.com REST API is rate-limited to a maximum of 500 calls per hour and 60 calls per minute per account, with no daily or monthly usage caps. Bulk endpoints are provided to help larger accounts stay within fair-use limits and can query up to 250 checks per request. Requests that exceed the limits receive an HTTP 429 response; clients should back off and retry.

Uptime Com Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Uptime.com on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests and checks.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Monitoring, Uptime, Website Monitoring, Status Pages, and SLA.

4 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Calls Per Minute account
requests
60
Maximum of 60 API calls per minute per account.
Calls Per Hour account
requests
500
Maximum of 500 API calls per hour per account.
Daily / Monthly Usage account
requests
-1
No daily or monthly usage limit is applied.
Bulk Endpoint Batch Size request
checks
250
Bulk endpoints can query up to 250 checks per request to help larger accounts stay within fair-use limits.

Policies

Throttling Response
Requests beyond the per-minute or per-hour limit return HTTP 429.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and retry after the rate-limit window resets.
Bulk Operations
Use bulk endpoints (up to 250 checks per call) to reduce request volume on large accounts.

Sources