diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/monitoring/uptimerobot.py b/lib/ansible/modules/monitoring/uptimerobot.py
index b23f8e1560b..8a16170cd96 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/monitoring/uptimerobot.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/monitoring/uptimerobot.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_url
 
 
-API_BASE = "http://api.uptimerobot.com/"
+API_BASE = "https://api.uptimerobot.com/"
 
 API_ACTIONS = dict(
     status='getMonitors?',