A free TLDTrack account is one page. It watches up to five sites for real, tells you by email when something breaks, and does not ask for a card. This is what that page shows and what the free plan does and does not cover.
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What a free monitor covers
Adding a site on the free plan switches on a fixed set of checks. You do not choose them individually:
- Uptime. On for everything you add. See Uptime monitoring for what counts as down and how the retry works.
- SSL certificate expiry. On for everything you add. See SSL certificate monitoring.
- Domain expiry. On for registrable roots only, so example.com and example.co.uk but not app.example.com. A subdomain has no registration of its own to expire. See Domain expiry.
- DNS change monitoring is off, along with blacklist and malware checks. Those are paid-plan checks.
Why some monitors show a dash for domain expiry
What is on the page
Top to bottom, the free dashboard shows five things:
- The primary monitor, named at the top, with a status pill beside it. This is the site the rest of the top half is about.
- Five stat cards. Status, uptime over the last 30 days, average response time over the last 24 hours, days until the domain expires, and days until the certificate expires. Numbers stay dark unless they are worth worrying about, when they turn amber and then red.
- Uptime history. Three bars for the last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days, then a strip of 90 small blocks, one per day, oldest on the left. Green means no failed checks that day, amber means some, red means every check failed, and grey means no data.
- The monitors table. Every site you are watching, with status, 24-hour uptime and response time, and a count of how many of your five slots are used.
- Where alerts go, and a plain summary of what paid plans add.
The figures come from two places. The 24-hour and 7-day percentages are worked out from the individual check records, which are kept for seven days. The 30-day percentage and the 90-day strip come from a daily rollup, which is why they survive longer than the raw checks do.
A new monitor shows "Pending" for a while, and that is correct
Adding, swapping and removing
- Add monitor opens a box that takes a domain or a subdomain. You can paste a full address; the http prefix, any path and a leading www are stripped for you. The button disappears once all five slots are used.
- Make primary on any row promotes that site to the top of the page. The choice is remembered. Without one, the oldest monitor leads.
- Remove stops monitoring that site and frees the slot. You are asked to confirm first.
Re-adding a site you removed earlier restores the original record rather than creating a duplicate, so its history comes back with it.
How you are told
Downtime, domain expiry and SSL expiry alerts are emailed to the contact address shown on the page, which is your own sign-in address unless you have changed it. Email is the only channel on the free plan. Adding a Slack, Microsoft Teams or webhook destination is refused for free accounts, and the screen that configures those destinations is not reachable from here anyway.
What a free account cannot open
Free accounts are held to this page on purpose. Trying to open any other part of the dashboard returns you here rather than showing a paywall. The only other places a free account can reach are the Account page, where your name, password and profile live, the plan and payment pages, and the onboarding flow.
That means the full multi-site dashboard, the per-site detail tabs, the Settings hub and every scan and audit are outside the free plan. Plans and levels sets out what each paid plan adds.
Arriving here from an expired trial
When a trial ends, the account is moved to the free plan instead of being cut off. Your first five sites, oldest first, keep their uptime, SSL and domain expiry checks running. Any site beyond the fifth has its monitoring switched off but is not deleted, so upgrading later brings it straight back. The site limit becomes five and the user limit becomes one.
Where to find this
Your monitors, their status and history.
In the appWhat the paid plans add.
Learn moreLimits and entitlements in detail.
Good to know
- Five monitors, one user, email alerts.
- Uptime and SSL are switched on for every monitor. Domain expiry needs a root domain.
- The primary monitor is a display choice. Every monitor is checked the same way.
- Removing a monitor is reversible: re-add the same site and its history returns.
- An expired trial lands here with its first five sites still running.