What is Blimey?

Blimey is an uptime monitoring app built specifically for Shopify stores. It continuously checks whether your online store is accessible to customers and alerts you immediately if something goes wrong.

Why do you need uptime monitoring?

Every minute your store is down, you're potentially losing sales and customer trust. Blimey helps you:

Know immediately when your store goes down — don't wait for customers to tell you
Track your store's performance with response time metrics and uptime percentages
Get email alerts when issues are detected, so you can act fast
Monitor Shopify platform status to know if issues are on Shopify's end
Review historical data to spot patterns and trends in your store's availability

How it works

Once installed, Blimey periodically sends a request to your store's domain — just like a customer visiting your site. It records the response time and status code, and if your store is unreachable or returning errors, Blimey creates an incident and can notify you via email.

Key features

Automatic uptime checks at configurable intervals (as frequent as every minute)
Response time tracking and performance charts
Downtime incident tracking with duration
Email notifications for downtime, recovery, and Shopify platform issues
Configurable alert cooldowns and delays to prevent notification spam
Daily uptime summaries and long-term trend data
Shopify platform status monitoring