Uptime Monitoring
Uptime monitoring is the practice of automatically checking a service at regular intervals to detect outages and measure availability.
An uptime monitor sends a request (HTTP, ping, or a protocol-specific check) to your endpoint every few minutes and records the result. When checks fail, it raises an alert; over time it produces an uptime percentage and a history of incidents.
Good uptime monitoring checks from multiple geographic locations and confirms failures before alerting, which avoids false positives caused by a single flaky network path or bot protection.
Related terms
UptimeUptime is the percentage of time a service is available and responding correctly over a given period.Synthetic MonitoringSynthetic monitoring proactively simulates user interactions against a service from controlled locations, rather than waiting for real users to hit a problem.Heartbeat MonitoringHeartbeat monitoring (also called cron or dead-man monitoring) alerts you when a scheduled job stops sending its expected False Positive (Alerting)A false positive is an alert that reports a problem which is not actually affecting users — a false alarm.
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