How to Enable Website Monitoring in Hostinger

Receiving email notifications about website vulnerabilities and HTTP errors

Updated 2 weeks ago

If you manage websites for your clients, you can get email notifications for vulnerabilities or HTTP errors on both your websites and your clients’ from your account.

The following will give you a step by step guide you how to enable the website monitoring feature:

Step 1 – Login to hPanel. Once logged in to your Hostinger account, you will find quick access sections on the left sidebar. Click on the Monitoring tab, under the Websites dropdown.

IMPORTANT! This feature is enabled only for Agency hosting plan users. 

Step 2 – Click the button “Add alert“:

Websites monitoring dashboard with “Add alert” button and no alerts yet
Step 3 – Customize the alert:
  • Select what errors do you wish to track – 5xx, 4xx.
  • Select threshold – choose how many errors must happen before you get an alert.
  • Select notifications interval – choose how often you want to receive alerts.

Alert setup step 1: enter name, choose 4xx/5xx alerts, set 24h interval, Next button

Step 4 – Select who will receive the alerts (you can add multiple receivers):

Alert notifications setup screen with email alerts enabled and WhatsApp marked coming soon

Step 5 – Select which websites you wish to include to the alert:

Hostinger alert setup: select sites to monitor, with 53 sites selected and page 1 of 11

And save the alert! Once saved, you will see the result in Monitoring section:

Alerts table showing one active alert with email channel, 24h interval, all sites, and an Edit button

You can enable/disable the alert, edit it or delete it.

Error Notification Details

Upon activation, email notifications will be sent to your account’s registered email address for the websites you manage (whether owned by you or your clients) in the following scenarios:

  • For HTTP 500, 503, and 404 errors on any CMS except for websites created using Hostinger Website Builder

This way you can anticipate and troubleshoot your client’s websites efficiently, ensuring continued service and enhanced security.