Websites and APIs
HTTP and HTTPS checks from every 10 seconds. A request can carry its own method, headers, body and authentication, so a login or POST endpoint is tested the way it is called.
- Expected answer status code, redirects and timeouts decide up or down
- Response times always measured; optional slowdown warnings mark a slow but answering service as degraded
- Confirmed before the alert three consistent observations before an outage is reported
- Several regions with more than one region, a majority confirms the outage