Redirect Chain Monitoring

Detect redirect loops, long chains, and broken final destinations.

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Redirect chain monitoring follows your URL's redirect hops and alerts when chains are too long, end in errors, or form loops. Excessive redirects hurt Core Web Vitals and can drop pages from Google's index.

How it works

Uptrue follows redirects manually (not automatically), recording each hop's URL and status code. If the chain exceeds your configured maximum hops, or the final destination returns an error, an alert fires.

What Uptrue checks

Full redirect chain (each hop URL and status)
Total hop count
Final destination status code
Loop detection

Alert conditions

Chain exceeds maximum hop limit
Final destination returns 4xx or 5xx
Redirect loop detected
Why this matters

Google recommends fewer than 3 redirect hops for optimal crawling. Long chains increase page load time for every user. Broken chains cause 404s that accumulate link equity loss.

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Frequently asked questions

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What's the default maximum redirect hops?
5 hops. You can configure this per monitor.
Yes. Each redirect hop is recorded, so you'll see the full chain including HTTP→HTTPS transitions.
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