Monitoring
Configure and manage monitoring for websites, APIs, and network services — dashboard, services, HTTP and ping checks, service details, and projects.
Monitoring
Overview
UptimeHunt provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities designed to ensure your services remain available and perform optimally. This guide explores the monitoring features, methodologies, and capabilities of the platform.
Supported Monitoring Types
HTTP/HTTPS Monitoring
Comprehensive web and API endpoint monitoring.
Protocol Support:
- HTTP (unencrypted)
- HTTPS (encrypted with SSL/TLS)
Capabilities:
- Multiple HTTP methods (GET, POST, HEAD)
- Request customization
- Authentication support
- Header configuration
- Response validation
Metrics Collected:
- Response status codes
- Response times
- Content availability
- SSL certificate validation
- Connection metrics
Learn more about HTTP Monitoring →
ICMP PING Monitoring
Network connectivity and latency monitoring.
Protocol:
- ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)
Capabilities:
- IPv4 and IPv6 support
- Domain name resolution
- Latency measurement
- Packet loss detection
Metrics Collected:
- Round-trip time (min/avg/max)
- Packet loss percentage
- Host reachability
- Network latency
Learn more about PING Monitoring →
Monitoring Methodology
Check Execution
Scheduling:
- Checks executed at configured intervals
- Range: 1-60 minutes per service
- Distributed across global probe network
- Consistent timing maintained
Process:
- Check scheduled based on interval
- Probe selected from global network
- Check executed (HTTP request or PING)
- Results collected and processed
- Metrics calculated and stored
- Status updated on dashboard
Check Intervals
Interval Selection:
Select check frequency based on service criticality:
High Frequency (1-3 minutes):
- Critical production services
- Revenue-generating applications
- Customer-facing systems
- SLA-bound services
Medium Frequency (5-10 minutes):
- Important but non-critical services
- Internal applications
- Development/staging environments
- Standard monitoring needs
Low Frequency (15-60 minutes):
- Periodic compliance checks
- Legacy systems
- Development services
- Non-critical infrastructure
Key Features
UptimeHunt monitoring includes:
- Real-time alerts — immediate notification of service issues
- Historical data — track uptime and performance trends
- Global distribution — check from multiple geographic locations
- Performance graphs — visualize response times and availability
- Incident tracking — document service outages and recovery
- SLA reporting — measure uptime against service level agreements
More check types
Beyond HTTP and ping, UptimeHunt also monitors these protocols — each with its own configuration and assertions:
- DNS Monitoring — resolve and validate DNS records (values, TTL, record count).
- SMTP Monitoring — mail-server greeting, STARTTLS, capabilities, and certificate expiry.
- SSH Monitoring — SSH banner, software version, and host-key fingerprint pinning.
- Game Server Monitoring — player count, current map, and server status.
Related Documentation
Organizations
How organizations work as shared workspaces — membership, roles, resource scoping, and the distinction between personal workspaces and team organizations.
Dashboard Overview
The dashboard surfaces what just broke, what still needs attention, and your probe fleet's health — without drowning you in chronic noise.