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The one email you can't afford to bounce is the one telling you you're down.

A one-click check on every alert contact and status-page subscriber, free of the credit system entirely — because an alert that bounces silently is worse than no alert at all.

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Why it matters

Contact & subscriber deliverability checks

An SMS alert may cost a credit whether it lands or not. An email alert costs nothing to send — and nothing to silently fail, either. If the address on your Owner's contact card was mistyped two years ago, you find out during the outage, not before it. This check exists so that question gets answered on your schedule, not during an incident. It's an easy thing to overlook precisely because email alerts feel like the reliable fallback — the channel you trust to work when everything else is uncertain. But a contact address entered wrong during initial setup, or one belonging to someone who left the company and had their mailbox deactivated, will fail exactly as silently as any other broken email, and an uptime tool has no way of knowing the difference between an alert that was sent and one that actually arrived. Running this check occasionally, especially after any change to who's on your contact list, closes that blind spot before it matters. It's a blind spot precisely because the channel usually just works, right up until the one time it doesn't. The cheapest time to fix a broken alert contact is before it's the only thing standing between you and knowing your site is down.

Free, because it's not a product — it's hygiene

Checking a contact or a subscriber never touches your verification credit balance, on any tier — it's a one-click button, not a metered feature. Basic account hygiene like this shouldn't compete with your actual verification usage for budget — you should be able to check every alert contact and every status-page subscriber as often as you want without worrying about eating into credits you'd rather spend elsewhere. It's meant to be run as often as curiosity strikes, not rationed like a scarce resource. It's meant to be used habitually, the same way you'd double-check any other safety-critical setting.

Right where the contact already lives

A 'Check deliverability' button sits on every Email-type row in Contacts and every subscriber row on a status page — no separate tool to open. There's no dedicated deliverability-checking dashboard to navigate to and no separate workflow to learn — the check lives directly next to the contact or subscriber it's checking, so verifying an address takes exactly as long as clicking a button while you're already looking at your contact list. It's built to be found by accident while doing something else, not hunted down in a separate menu. It's placed exactly where you'd already be looking when managing contacts.

The same pipeline, just pointed inward

The result badge reflects the identical verification pipeline used everywhere else — this is not a lighter-weight check for a lower-stakes address. That consistency matters: an alert contact is arguably the single most important address in your whole account, since it's the one that has to work correctly during an actual outage, so it gets the same eight-step pipeline as any address you'd pay credits to verify. It's a small detail, but it's the kind of consistency that makes the badge something you can actually trust. It's not a stripped-down version built just to look reassuring.

FAQ

Contact & subscriber deliverability checks, answered.

Does checking a contact use my verification credits?

No — checking an existing alert contact or status-page subscriber is free of the credit system entirely, on every tier. It's a one-click badge, not a metered verification, and that's true regardless of plan — Free, Starter and Team all get unlimited checks on existing contacts and subscribers. There's genuinely no catch here — it's meant to be used liberally, not sparingly. There's no fine print limiting how often it can be used.

Where do I find the check?

On the Contacts page, every Email-type contact row has a 'Check deliverability' button; the same button appears on each subscriber row in a status page's subscriber panel. It's worth running right after adding a new alert contact or noticing a subscriber count that looks off, since that's exactly when a mistyped address is most likely to be sitting there unnoticed. It only takes a few seconds, so there's rarely a reason not to run it on the spot. It takes less time to run than it does to read this sentence.

Should I check every contact regularly, or just once when I add it?

Both are worth doing. Checking right after adding a contact catches typos immediately, but mailboxes that were valid when added can still go stale later — someone leaves the company, a domain gets decommissioned — so an occasional re-check, especially after team changes, is cheap insurance against an alert quietly failing when it matters most. Either habit closes the same blind spot; doing both just closes it a little more thoroughly. Either habit is enough on its own; together they leave very little room for a surprise.

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