How to create a synthetic check?

First you need to create a monitor to start monitoring your services.

What is a monitor?

A monitor is a job that runs periodically or on-demand and checks the status of a service. A monitor will do some synthetic checks to ensure that your service is working as expected.

Create your first monitor

Go to the Monitors page and click on the Create Monitor button.

Configure your monitor

Your endpoint check requires:

• a name to identify your monitor
• the URL to checked

We will store the response time, the status code, the headers returned, and the timing metrics of your endpoint.

HTTP Request

Customize the request sent to your endpoint.

Choose between one of the request HTTP Method: GET (default), POST or HEAD.

Add custom key-value HTTP Headers to your request.

OpenStatus automatically set the "User-Agent": "OpenStatus/1.0" header to your request. This header is used to identify the request as a ping request and can be exluded from your analytics.

If you select the POST method, you can add a custom HTTP Body to your request.

Customization

You can customize your monitor with the following options:

Assertions

Frequency

Regions

Timing

Known Limitations

Note

If you are monitoring an endpoint you don’t own (e.g google.com), your request might be blocked by the remote server.

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Create your first monitor