Set Up Uptime Checks

Monitor service availability from external vantage points and prevent SSL certificate expirations.

When to Use

• Monitoring customer-facing endpoints (APIs, websites)
• Tracking SSL certificate expiration
• Validating service availability from multiple regions
• Creating public status pages
• Meeting SLA requirements for uptime reporting

Inputs

• Required: List of HTTP/HTTPS endpoints to monitor
• Required: Prometheus instance for metric collection
• Optional: Multiple geographic probe locations
• Optional: Status page tool (Statuspage.io, Cachet, custom)
• Optional: Alert notification channels (PagerDuty, Slack)