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Shopify uptime monitoring. Know the second your checkout stops answering.
A Shopify store running ads is expensive to leave unmonitored. SiteGuardian probes your storefront, /cart, and /checkout once a minute, and emails you the second one of them stops. Minutely cadence. No app to install. Works on any Shopify plan.
- Probe the storefront, /cart, and /checkout from one URL list. Minute cadence on Pro.
- Tight slow-threshold on /checkout (1.5 seconds is sane). Catches the cart page that silently got slow.
- SSL cert watcher on /checkout. Shopify handles renewal, but renewals fail silently on the storefront domain.
- Multi-region probing so a Fastly blip does not falsely trip the alert email.
- No Shopify app install. Points at the storefront URL like any external monitor.
Failure modes, watched
The Shopify outages SiteGuardian actually catches.
Three Shopify-specific failure modes, each mapped to the SiteGuardian feature that watches for it. Read the failure first; the link takes you straight to the feature page.
Failure mode
Lost sales during a Tuesday-afternoon downtime
A Shopify storefront can silently serve a 502 for ten minutes while you finish a meeting. By the time a customer emails you, the ad spend from the last two hours is gone. SiteGuardian probes the storefront once a minute and emails you the same minute the answer is no.
Watched by SiteGuardian → Website down alertsFailure mode
A /checkout page that got slow without anyone noticing
A tracking-pixel load, a heavier theme, a payment-gateway redirect. /checkout used to answer in 900ms; now it answers in 4,200ms. SiteGuardian probes /checkout on a tight slow-threshold so you learn the day the cart page got slow, not the week after.
Watched by SiteGuardian → Checkout monitoringFailure mode
An SSL cert on /checkout that quietly lapsed overnight
Shopify auto-renews most certs. When the auto-renew fails. A card on file expired, a billing email went to spam. The cert is yours to fix. SiteGuardian pings the cert path daily and emails you at 90 / 30 / 7 / 1 days before anything turns red.
Watched by SiteGuardian → SSL expiry monitor
How it works
Setup, in three beats.
Step 01
Add your storefront URL and the URLs that close the sale
Paste https://<shop>.myshopify.com (or your custom domain), then add /cart and /checkout. SiteGuardian starts probing inside the next minute. No app to install, no admin scope to grant, no Shopify-side hookup.
Step 02
Tighten the slow-threshold on /checkout
Most stores set 1.5 seconds on /checkout and 2.5 on the homepage. SiteGuardian treats each URL independently and trips the right alert at the right pace. The tight threshold catches the day a pixel or a theme pushed /checkout over the line.
Step 03
Let the cert watch run while you run the store
A Shopify-side cert failure is the most common silent breakage on a Shopify store. SiteGuardian pings the cert path daily. By the time a visitor sees the browser warning, you have already had a 90-day warning in your inbox and the renewal is on your calendar.
What the alert actually says
One email. One URL. One timestamp.
Your URL https://yourstore.myshopify.com/checkout answered slowly at 4,820ms (your threshold is 1,500ms) at 14:32 UTC. Probe will retry in 60 seconds.Frequently asked
The Shopify questions, answered flat.
Frequently asked
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Starter is $19 a month. One Shopify store, ten URLs, every-five-minute checks. Pro is $39 a month if you are running multiple Shopify stores under one inbox. Lifetime is $299 paid once and stays yours with every future update included.
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