How to Monitor Bubble App Uptime and API Status | Pingzo

How to Monitor Your Bubble App Uptime with Pingzo

Bubble.io is the leading no-code platform used by startups and enterprises to build fully functional web applications. While Bubble handles hosting and scalability, apps can still go down due to custom plugin errors, database rate-limiting, third-party API timeout blocks, or workflow timeouts.

If a critical database connection or external integration fails, your Bubble app might load a blank page or return API connection errors while reporting a healthy state internally.

This guide walks you through setting up an active health check endpoint in Bubble and monitoring it with Pingzo.

🛠️ Step 1: Create a Health Check Endpoint in Bubble

To monitor the true operational status of your Bubble application, we recommend exposing a public workflow API that pings your Bubble database.

1. Open your Bubble Editor and go to Settings > API.
2. Check Enable Workflow API and backend workflows.
3. Go to the Backend Workflows page (from the page dropdown in the top-left).
4. Create a new API Workflow and name it health_check.
5. Check Expose as a public API workflow and Run without authentication (so Pingzo can reach it).
6. Add a workflow action: Search for [Your Database Type] with a constraint limit of 1 (this forces Bubble to perform a lightweight database handshake).
7. Add a Return data from API action:
   • Status: 200
   • Content: {"status": "healthy"}

Your public check endpoint URL will look like: https://your-app-domain.com/version-test/api/1.1/wf/health_check (for staging) https://your-app-domain.com/api/1.1/wf/health_check (for production)

⚙️ Step 2: Configure Uptime Checks in Pingzo

Set up Pingzo to check your public workflow API from our global edge network:

1. Log in to your Pingzo dashboard.
2. Click Create Monitor.
3. Set the URL to your Bubble backend workflow API: https://your-app-domain.com/api/1.1/wf/health_check.
4. Set the Check Interval to 5 Minutes.
5. Select WhatsApp as your notification channel for instant downtime alerts.
6. Click Save Monitor.

💡 Best Practices for Bubble Uptime Monitoring

• Avoid Checking Static Homepages: Bubble uses Cloudflare to cache static homepage assets. If your database crashes, your homepage might still return HTTP 200 from cache while user signups and searches fail. Checking a workflow API guarantees database integrity.
• Keep Workflow Database Queries Light: Ensure your database handshake query searches for a static or lightweight record to prevent consuming extra Bubble capacity units.