Monitors

Monitors do check the availability of your website, shop, server or API.

Create a monitor

Select Monitors in the left navigation bar and click Create monitor on the top right of the page. The first option is the type of the monitor. Usually you want to go with HTTPS which is the default (learn more about types here). Next, you need to insert your URL or IP address you want to monitor e.g. example.com. Then you can choose from which regions your URL or IP address will be monitored. The number of regions you are able to select depends on your chosen plan. At last select an interval at which the monitor will check the uptime. Learn more about the optional fields in the following sections. Click on Create to create your monitor.

Update a monitor

Select Monitors in the left navigation bar, search the monitor you want to delete and click on it. Then click on Edit monitor on the top left of the page. You can now alter the settings. If you want to save the changes click on Save on the bottom right. If you want to discard the changes you have made click on Cancel.

Delete a monitor

Select Monitors in the left navigation bar, search the monitor you want to delete and click on it. Then click on Edit monitor on the top left of the page and on the new page that opens at the same position click on Delete monitor. This will open a confirmation dialog where have to confirm that you want to delete this monitor. Click Delete to proceed and delete the monitor or Cancel to abort deleting the monitor. Clicking on the cross on the top right of the dialog will also abort.

DANGER

The monitor and all its data will be deleted. This includes but is not necessarily limited to the monitor itself, the chart data containing the response times and incidents.

Fields

Types

The monitor type defines the way in which your URL or IP address will be monitored. You can choose between HTTPS, Ping, and Port.

• HTTPS The monitor will make an HTTPS request to your specified URL or IP address.

• Ping The monitor will send and receive an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo message. Commonly known as a Ping.

• Port The monitor will try to connect to the specified TCP port under the URL or IP address.

URL or IP address

The URL or IP address of your website, shop, server or API that you want to monitor. For example example.com or 8.8.8.8.

Region

Define from which parts of the world you want to monitor. At the moment you can choose between Europe Central, Europe North, US East, US West and Asia Pacific South East. This introduces redundancy and helps to keep track if your site is available all around the world.

Interval

Choose an interval at which your site will be monitored. For example 1 minute will execute and try to reach your site every minute.

Name

You can give your monitor a specific name e.g. 'My awesome monitor'. This can help to distinguish between monitors. If you define a name, the name will be used instead of the URL or IP address to refer to this monitor for example in the overview of all monitors.

Description

A description can be added to add further information which can also help to distinguish between monitors or help remembering some helpful information.

Tags

With tags the monitors can be grouped. This especially comes in handy when defining Alerts or Maintenance windows. Let's say you have two subdomains like one.example.com and two.example.com and they refer to different servers. These servers may run different maintenance schedules. So instead of manually adding all monitors to the specific maintenance window, you can add tags like 'One' and 'Two' to the corresponding monitors and select these tags when creating the maintenance windows.

Custom headers

It is possible to add custom headers that will be added to the HTTPS request. This can be of use if some kind of authorization is used. For example Basic Authentication or authentication via an api key.