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Monitoring help and guidance

Practical guides for understanding checks, diagnosing warnings, confirming incidents and sharing service status with your customers.

MonitoringShowing 16–26 of 26 guides

HTTP monitoring

Why redirects can cause a monitoring failure

Understand redirect chains, broken destinations, HTTPS downgrade protection and hostname changes in WebCheck.

Monitoring basics

Understand how WebCheck identifies slower responses, why degraded is not automatically downtime and what to investigate next.

Monitoring basics

Run an immediate WebCheck check, understand the queue message and avoid confusing a manual result with a scheduled run.

Monitoring basics

Monitor a public TCP service by host and port, understand connection failures and know what an open port does not prove.

Notifications

Configure a WebCheck webhook, understand its JSON payload and verify optional HMAC signing safely.

Product guidance

Understand the current WebCheck site, target, interval, history and notification limits and why they affect monitoring setup.

DNS monitoring

Understand resolver caching, address-family differences and how to compare WebCheck DNS evidence with a local lookup.

Notifications

See what WebCheck retries after an alert delivery fails and what to check when a notification does not arrive.

Notifications

Learn how incident confirmation, the site notification delay and background delivery affect alert timing.

Incidents

Use the incident diagnosis, timeline and related check runs to find the cause and confirm recovery.

Product guidance

Compare the questions simple availability checks and WebCheck’s additional monitoring signals can answer.