# How to Monitor Stripe Uptime

> Stripe is a payment processing platform used by businesses to accept online payments and manage subscriptions.

*Source: https://monitoristic.com/monitor/stripe*

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## Why Monitor Stripe?

Stripe downtime means failed payments, stuck checkouts, and broken subscription flows. Even partial degradation can silently drop revenue without triggering obvious errors.

## What to Monitor

- `api.stripe.com` — Core payment API
- `checkout.stripe.com` — Hosted checkout pages
- `dashboard.stripe.com` — Merchant dashboard access

## What You Should Actually Do

1. Monitor api.stripe.com — this is the endpoint your integration calls
2. Track response times — Stripe degradation often shows as slowness before full failures
3. Set up alerts for your support team — they'll get payment-related tickets before anyone else notices
4. Create a status page — customers need to know if payments are temporarily affected
5. Bookmark status.stripe.com — Stripe's official status page for platform-wide updates

## Stripe's Official Status Page

Stripe publishes real-time status at https://status.stripe.com. Your own monitor complements it by catching connection-level issues, often before the status page updates.

## Takeaway

Payment outages are uniquely costly because they're silent. Your site keeps working, your pages keep loading — but the money stops flowing. The gap between "Stripe starts failing" and "someone notices revenue is down" can be hours. A single monitor on api.stripe.com with a response time threshold turns hours of silent revenue loss into a 60-second alert.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do I get notified when Stripe goes down?

Set up an HTTP monitor for api.stripe.com on Monitoristic. You'll get an instant alert when Stripe's API starts returning errors. Recovery alerts fire when it comes back.

### Can I detect slow Stripe responses, not just outages?

Yes. Monitoristic tracks response times for every check. On Pro and Business plans, you can set a response time threshold — if Stripe's API starts responding slower than your threshold, you'll be alerted before checkout starts failing.

### Should I monitor Stripe's dashboard or their API?

Monitor the API (api.stripe.com) — that's what your integration calls. The dashboard (dashboard.stripe.com) is for merchants and can be down independently. Monitor both if you need dashboard access for operations.

### How is this different from status.stripe.com?

Stripe's status page shows their global API health. Your monitor checks whether YOUR requests to Stripe are succeeding. Network-level issues, regional problems, or DNS failures can affect you without appearing on their status page.