Real incident · Jul 5, 2026 · 4 minutes of downtime

What Upcharm looks like
when your API goes down

On July 5, the GitHub API returned HTTP 500 for 4 minutes. Here’s the full picture: the Discord alert your team got, and the incident recorded on your public status page.

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Step 1 — 14:32 UTC

Your team gets a Discord alert in seconds

Discord channel showing Upcharm bot posting a red 'GitHub API is DOWN' alert at 14:32 UTC, followed by a green 'GitHub API is back UP' alert at 14:36 UTC with total downtime of 4 minutes

Upcharm’s bot posts directly to your #alerts channel. The first message fires the moment a check fails — with the service name, HTTP status code, and UTC timestamp. When the API recovers, a second message confirms it and shows total downtime: 4 minutes.

Meanwhile, your public status page records everything
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Step 2 — Public Status Page

Your users see the full incident timeline

Upcharm status page showing 30-day uptime bar chart for the GitHub API, with one red bar on Jul 5. Below: incident history entry showing '14:32 UTC - HTTP 500 detected, Discord alert sent' and '14:36 UTC - Service recovered, downtime: 4 minutes'

Your public status page is the URL you share with users. It shows a 30-day uptime bar chart, response-time trends, and a timestamped incident log — so users can see you caught the issue and resolved it in 4 minutes. No more “is it down or is it just me?”

4 min

Total downtime detected and resolved

<30 s

Time from failure to Discord alert

0

Users left wondering if the tool was broken

This is exactly what Upcharm does for every project it monitors — automatically, with no ops team required.

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