Outage alerts
CheckedGet Slack alerts when ReadMe goes down
Email alerts are free for up to 5 providers — Slack, Discord, and webhook delivery come with paid plans. Every alert is driven by ReadMe's official status feed, checked about every 10 minutes around the clock.
How to get ReadMe outage alerts
- Create your free account. Sign in with GitHub, Google, or an emailed link on the account page — no password, no card.
- Add ReadMe to your alerts. The 60-second onboarding asks which providers you rely on; pick ReadMe and free email alerts are live immediately (up to 5 providers).
- Want it in Slack or Discord? Paid plans add those channels plus raw webhooks: create a subscription, paste your webhook URL, and press Send test to prove the wiring in seconds. The alert setup guide walks through creating the webhook URL in each app.
Why it matters
Recent ReadMe incident activity
ReadMe recorded 100% uptime across 1 monitored day in the last 90 days. The official feed logged 10 incident entries in that window — exactly the changes subscribers hear about first.
What triggers ReadMe alerts
New incident
A fresh incident appeared on the official feed and started within the last 24 hours — historical backfills never alert.
Incident update
An open incident moved through its lifecycle (investigating → identified → monitoring …).
Incident resolved
An incident was resolved upstream, or disappeared from the provider's active feed.
Status change
The provider's overall status flipped (e.g. Operational → Partial outage).
Every delivery is claimed exactly once per event, retried once on failure, and recorded — overlapping check runs can never double-notify you. Alerts are driven by ReadMe's official status source: the official ReadMe status page remains the authoritative reference.
Prefer to pull instead of push?
Everything on this page is also machine-readable, free, and account-less: subscribe to the ReadMe RSS feed, poll the JSON API, or embed the live ReadMe status badge in a README or dashboard.
FAQ
ReadMe alert questions
Short answers to what alert subscribers ask most.
How fast will I know when ReadMe goes down?
OutageDeck checks ReadMe's official status feed about every 10 minutes, around the clock. The first check that sees a new incident or a status change fires your alert immediately, so email, Slack, Discord, and webhook subscribers typically know within minutes of the official feed changing.
Are ReadMe outage alerts free?
Yes — every account includes free email alerts for up to 5 providers, no card required. Paid plans add Slack, Discord, and webhook delivery, more subscriptions, and higher API quotas.
Which ReadMe events trigger an alert?
New incidents on the official feed (when they started within the last 24 hours), incident lifecycle changes, resolutions, and provider-level status changes. A subscription can watch your whole stack, only ReadMe, or specific ReadMe services.
Can I follow ReadMe status without an account?
Yes. The ReadMe RSS feed, the public JSON API, and the embeddable status badge are free with no sign-up — alerts exist so changes get pushed to you instead of you re-checking a page.
Outage alerts
Ready to stop refreshing status pages?
Free email alerts for up to 5 providers — no card, live in about a minute. Paid plans add Slack, Discord, and webhook delivery across your whole stack, plus higher API quotas.