Monitors

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Monitors Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! Customers who subscribe to Cloud Load Balancing will have access to the MONITORS tab, as shown in the image below. Monitors do not work on their own, but are attached to servers in an ALF pack […]

Selecting the Right Monitors for Your Website

Suppose you’ve just launched a new website and you want to make sure that everything keeps working fine. What’s the next step? You could just hope and pray, but there is merit to being more proactive than that. The responsible thing to do is to monitor your website, including all the critical pages, services, and […]

DNS Monitors Tab

Not interested in reading the manual? We cover the essentials in a video at the bottom of this page! Customers who subscribe to Cloud DNS Failover (included in the Professional, Premium & Enterprise packages) will have access to the MONITORS tab, as shown in the image below. Monitors do not work on their own, but […]

Retrieve All Monitors

Method:              GET URI:                      /Monitor/DeviceMonitor/All?{options} This method will retrieve all of the monitors currently configured in the database for your company. The {options} allow you to refine the results retrieved from the API. They must be formatted as a query […]

Do you support HOST HEADERS in monitors?

Yes, the three HTTP monitor types do allow for host headers. A host header allows you to send the appropriate domain name with the IP address being tested. Often this is required if you have multiple websites behind the same IP, or if you have configured your website not to load by IP address only. […]

Creating and Managing Monitors

 In this video we’ll dive deeper into monitors. Monitors are an essential component of our platform because they give you the power to accurately detect when your servers are up or down. This information is then used with Load Balancing or DNS Failover to properly route traffic.

Cloud Platform Release v22.4.0

Today we released cloud platform version 22.4.0 which includes a number of bug fixes and feature improvements. Below is a list of the most notable changes you will find in this release. Monitors In Use: We finally released a long-awaited feature that now shows where custom monitors are used. The Monitors table for DNS or […]

Retrieve All Devices

Method:              GET URI:                      /ALF/Server/All This method retrieves all of the devices (servers) for your company. It will also list all of the monitors and ports attached to each server, if applicable. Field Sample data perpage={value} An integer for number of items you would like returned […]