Net Monitors

What are net monitors and when are they useful?

Net monitors actively check the status of your websites and network services in regular intervals.

Common use cases are:

• Monitor the uptime of a website or web service/API by checking the return status or specific keywords
  • Example:
    You want to ensure that you are the first to know when your company website or online shop goes down
• Check if a website or service returns the data you are expecting
  • Example 1:
    You have a web service and want to make sure a specific URL/endpoint always returns data X. If you are a developer, think of it as an assertion for a specific route.
  • Example 2:
    You want to observe pricing information, available updates or other attributes on a website and get notified when they change
• Getting a notification when you accidentally let your SSL certificates expire or a reminder when it is about to expire
• Ensuring that all your website redirects are still properly set up after you make a configuration change that could affect them
• Monitor a TCP port on which your service runs. Get a notification or receive a webhook when it isn't responding anymore.

You will find that there are many more scenarios.