PatchPings FAQ — scanning, monitoring, and plans

Yes. The Free plan covers 1 site and 5 audit reports per month with PatchPings-branded PDF reports and community support. No credit card to start — download on Google Play.

Not to get started. Guest mode lets you try a few scans with no sign-up. Sign in with Google when you want the Free plan limits (1 site, 5 audits/month) and saved history.

Every scan runs four checks in parallel: HTTP security headers (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options and more), SSL/TLS (certificate validity, expiry, protocol versions and chain of trust), DNS health (SPF, DKIM and DMARC), and HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects and mixed content. You get one clear grade and the exact issues behind it.

Seconds. All four scan types fire at once rather than one after another, so a complete security picture — grade, issues and fixes — is ready in well under a minute.

AI does the work an expert would after the data is collected: it reads each finding, explains it in plain English, scores it by real-world risk, and writes the exact copy-paste fix for your stack. For monitoring, AI may help reduce noise by flagging unusual patterns so alerts focus on genuine problems.

A scan is an on-demand snapshot of a site’s security right now. Monitoring runs continuously in the background — checking uptime, watching certificate and domain expiry, and alerting you when something breaks.

Continuously, on a regular interval built to catch real downtime quickly without flooding you with noise.

Alerts are built to reduce noise. AI may help flag unusual patterns against ordinary variation so you get fewer false alerts and focus on genuine problems.

Uptime outages, SSL certificate expiry, domain expiry and blacklist hits — delivered by push notification, email or webhook (Slack, Discord, PagerDuty or your own systems). You also get a recovery notice when things are back to normal.

Yes. We watch the live certificate and your domain registration and warn you well in advance — typically at 30, 14 and 7 days out — so a missed renewal never turns into a customer-facing outage.

No. There are no agents, scripts or DNS changes required. PatchPings checks your site the same way a visitor’s browser would — you just provide the URL.

We only scan what’s publicly reachable about your site — the same information any browser receives — and we never store your website’s content. Your account details and scan history are private to you.