How to create a monitor?

Go to the Monitors page and click on the Create Monitor button.

Configure your monitor 🛠

Your endpoint check requires:

• a name to identify your monitor
• the URL to checked

We will store the response time, the status code, the headers returned, and the timing metrics of your endpoint.

HTTP Request 📤

Customize the request sent to your endpoint.

Choose between one of the request HTTP Method: GET (default), POST or HEAD.

Add custom key-value HTTP Headers to your request.

OpenStatus automatically set the "User-Agent": "OpenStatus/1.0" header to your request. This header is used to identify the request as a ping request and can be exluded from your analytics.

If you select the POST method, you can add a custom HTTP Body to your request.

Limitations ⚠️

Note

If you are monitoring an endpoint you don’t own (e.g google.com), your request might be blocked by the remote server.

Video Tutorial 📺

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Create your first monitor