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Monitors

Check settings

Intervals, thresholds, timeouts, headers, and how status is decided.

Check interval
How often the check runs: 30 seconds to 1 hour, down to your plan's minimum.
Expected status
The HTTP status code that counts as up (default 200). Anything else fails the check. Website and API monitors only.
Degraded threshold
Responses slower than this (default 1500 ms) count as slow. The monitor turns degraded only after two consecutive slow checks, so a single network blip never flips the status.
Timeout
How long to wait before giving up, 1 to 120 seconds (default 30). A timeout counts as a failed check.
Down after
A monitor goes down after two consecutive failed checks, not one, which filters out one-off network noise.
Request headers
Up to 10 custom headers sent with every check (website, API, and keyword monitors), one per line as Name: value. Handy for API keys or bypassing maintenance gates.

Raw check history is kept for 90 days. Monitors can be paused and resumed anytime without losing history, and the detail page shows response-time charts, uptime over 24 hours to 30 days, recent checks, and the event timeline.