# How to Monitor Webflow Uptime

> Webflow is a visual web design and hosting platform that lets you build responsive websites without writing code, with CMS and e-commerce capabilities.

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

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## Why Monitor Webflow?

Webflow hosts your site on their infrastructure. When Webflow has issues — CDN problems, CMS API failures, or hosting outages — your site goes down and there's nothing you can do except wait. Monitoring tells you when it happens so you can communicate with your users instead of discovering it hours later.

## What to Monitor

- `yourdomain.com` — Your custom domain pointing to Webflow
- `your-site.webflow.io` — Default Webflow subdomain
- `yourdomain.com/blog` — CMS-powered blog or collection pages

## What You Should Actually Do

1. Monitor your custom domain, not just the webflow.io subdomain — DNS and SSL issues on your domain won't affect the Webflow subdomain
2. Add a separate monitor for CMS-powered pages (blog, collections) — static pages and dynamic pages can fail independently
3. Set up instant alerts so you can pause ad campaigns or notify clients during Webflow outages
4. Track response times — Webflow CDN is fast, so a sudden jump from 100ms to 2 seconds signals a problem even if the site is technically 'up'
5. If you manage multiple client sites on Webflow, monitor each one — a Webflow outage can affect some sites but not others

## Webflow's Official Status Page

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

## Takeaway

Webflow is a powerful platform, but it's still someone else's server. When it goes down, you can't SSH in, restart a process, or deploy a fix. The only thing you control is how fast you find out and how you communicate with your users. External monitoring gives you that control.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Does Webflow monitor my site's uptime?

Webflow monitors their platform infrastructure, but they don't provide per-site uptime alerts or status pages for individual sites. If your site goes down, you won't get a notification from Webflow — you need external monitoring for that.

### Can Webflow sites go down?

Yes. Webflow hosts your site on their CDN and servers. CDN issues, CMS API failures, DNS propagation delays, and platform-wide outages can all affect your site. Webflow has generally good uptime, but no platform is immune to outages.

### Should I monitor my webflow.io domain or my custom domain?

Monitor your custom domain. This is what your visitors actually use. DNS misconfigurations, SSL certificate issues, and domain-level problems only show up on your custom domain, not on the webflow.io subdomain.

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

Webflow's status page reports platform-wide incidents. Your monitor checks YOUR specific site. A CMS issue affecting only certain sites, a DNS problem with your custom domain, or a partial CDN failure in your region won't always appear on the platform status page.