Monitors and Pulses
Set up Probes and Pulses, tune their policies, and read their evidence.
8 articles
The basics
How niceuptime decides up vs down
Follow the evidence and thresholds that move a Probe or Pulse between healthy and failing states.
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Create your first HTTP probe
Configure a public GET or HEAD target, its expected status, interval, and allowed regions.
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Setting up a heartbeat for a cron job
Create a Pulse, keep its endpoint token private, and report only after successful work.
3 min read
Configuration
Choosing a check interval
Balance detection speed and load with the interval and grace allowed by your plan.
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Monitoring from multiple regions
Select allowed regions and read each regional observation as part of one shared Probe round.
3 min read
Checking for a keyword or JSON value
Add a keyword or JSON-pointer check to a Probe response after its expected status passes.
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Troubleshooting