Azure uptime monitoring from outside Microsoft Azure
Monitor your Azure-hosted websites, APIs and services from independent infrastructure, with uptime checks, alerts and status pages.
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Monitor Azure from the outside
Phare checks your public endpoints independently of Azure Monitor. You keep an external signal for whether your production services are actually reachable.
Uptime monitoring for your Azure websites and APIs
Monitor public websites and applications hosted on Azure independently of Azure Monitor.
- Monitor public endpoints hosted on Azure App Service, Static Web Apps, Azure Functions and Container Apps.
- Check availability every 30 seconds across multiple independent monitoring regions.
- Get warned well before Azure-hosted TLS certificates expire.
Azure status pages for public incident updates
A hosted public status page keeps customers informed and maintains trust while your response team focuses on recovering your Azure infra.
- Share live operational status across your Azure-hosted tools and public endpoints.
- Publish live incident updates while technical fixes and failovers proceed.
- Host on your own custom domain with automated SSL certificates at zero extra cost.
Incident management and team alerting
Handle Azure service disruptions with calm coordination. Get notified instantly when problems appear and keep your team in sync.
- Receive immediate alerts via Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, or webhooks.
- Track incident response progress from first detection to full recovery.
- Schedule maintenance windows to avoid false alarms during Azure updates.
“Phare is really easy to set up and has been a part of our technological stack for a few years. The product already offers a lot, and is updated frequently with new features.”
Lucas Moisan
Tech Lead & Co-founder, Wizards Technologies
Industry: IT Services
Team size: 50-100
Uptime monitoring built to scale with you
Full access to core monitoring features with generous quotas and no credit card required.
- Website & API uptime monitoring
- Runs HTTP, TCP and ICMP ping checks every 30 seconds from independent European edge locations to spot downtime immediately.
- SSL certificate monitoring
- Automated TLS certificate checks that alert before certificates expire and cause an unnecessary outage.
- Alerts when something breaks
- Instant notifications via Discord, Slack, Telegram, email, and webhooks.
- Incident management
- Track outages, post updates, coordinate fixes, and keep a clean timeline without assembling spreadsheets at 2am.
- Branded public status pages
- Host public status pages on your own custom domain with automatic SSL and subscriber feeds.
- Maintenance windows
- Schedule planned maintenance to avoid false alarms during upgrades and deployments.
- Unlimited members & projects
- Invite all your colleagues to contribute in unlimited projects, no per-seat surcharges.
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Frequently asked questions
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What is Azure uptime monitoring?
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Azure uptime monitoring is the practice of monitoring Microsoft Azure websites, APIs, and services from independent external infrastructure to verify they are reachable by users.
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Why monitor Azure from outside Azure?
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If an Azure region, routing layer, or Azure Monitor service experiences downtime, internal monitoring alerts may fail to fire. Monitoring from independent infrastructure guarantees reliable notifications when Azure goes down.
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Can Phare monitor Azure websites?
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Yes. Phare monitors public websites and web apps on Azure App Service, Azure Static Web Apps, Virtual Machines, or behind Azure Front Door.
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Can Phare monitor Azure APIs?
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Yes. Phare checks REST and GraphQL APIs running on Azure Functions, Container Apps, or behind Azure API Management with configurable methods, headers, and validations.
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Can Phare monitor Azure App Service?
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Yes. Any Azure App Service with a publicly accessible URL or custom domain can be monitored with 30-second uptime checks and SSL monitoring.
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Can I use Phare alongside Azure Monitor?
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Yes. Keep Azure Monitor for deep resource telemetry, App Insights, and server diagnostics. Use Phare as an independent watchdog to confirm external user reachability.
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Can Phare monitor Azure from multiple regions?
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Yes. Phare tests your endpoints from 12 global edge locations, ensuring worldwide availability and identifying geographic routing anomalies.
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Can I create an Azure application status page?
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Yes. Phare provides customizable public status pages with custom domains, automated SSL, component status, and incident updates.
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Does Phare offer free Azure uptime monitoring?
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Yes. Phare's Hobby plan is free forever with no credit card required, including 30-second checks, multi-channel alerts, incident management, and status pages.
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Can Phare monitor multi-cloud infrastructure?
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Yes. You can monitor endpoints on Azure, AWS, GCP, and bare-metal servers side by side in a single unified Phare workspace.
Multi-cloud infrastructure uptime monitoring
Phare monitors public endpoints across AWS, GCP, Azure and bare metal from one place that doesn't go down when you do.
Amazon Web Services
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Google Cloud Platform
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Phare-tastic feedback
They all came for a free uptime monitoring tool, they stayed for the superior platform, and the vibe.
I simply love it. The UI is very clean and clear. You only pay what you use. That is for every request that is made. You can even adjust the frequency for each monitor individually. However, for me the best feature is the well-documented API that makes it possible to embed phare.io into your existing infrastructure in no-time.
Nice UI, clear UX, custom domain, custom status page. I sign up and 5 minutes later I get : - 2FA secure auth - A nice status page on my own domain - Telegram & email alert working The product is simple and powerful, I love it. Bravo !
It has all the important features and its UI is just lovely!
Checked many, many competitors, and Phare is fairly the best option to go with!
Phare offers a nice status page that is incredibly easy to use. It’s free to play, no credit card required. Incident management has internal and external communication.
Amazing uptime management! Works automatically and notifies me via email.
I think Phare has a very clean and to the point interface and feature list. I use for my personal projects right now but I am considering it for work related things as well.
Super slick. Ridiculously simple to setup. Took me a minute to figure out where the badge was but otherwise this was setup in a blink of an eye.
We’ve been using Phare for months now, and the dev is actively working on improving the system! He responds to messages and even reached out to us when we didn’t know there was a problem. We’ve used lots of systems and by far this takes the cake and works perfect for what we need.
Phare can be described simply in two words: Absolutely amazing.
It’s a great product, I was able to participate in the beta and it’s really a great project, I’m very happy that we have a solution like that in Europe. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
