Getting Started
This guide shows how to set up basic uptime monitoring with Hydrozen.io in 2 minutes.
Creating your first monitor
To get started, we will create a simple HTTP status code based monitor.
Choose URL to monitor
Go to Monitors → Create monitor
Enter an easy to remember and recognize name for the monitor in the first text field.
Select the Ping protocol as
HTTP(S)Enter your URL or IP address in the URL text field
Click Save to save the monitor with default settings or Click on Advanced settings.
Advanced Settings
Ping locations
You can choose the Ping locations from which your url will be checked. The default is North Virginia.
Notifications
You can select different notification handlers (Integrations) and when your monitor status changes (UP/DOWN), the alerts will be sent to the selected notification handlers.
If you are configuring for the first time, there won't be any notification handlers available by default. You have to first Create a Notification Handler and come back here to add.
Email reports
You can enable / disable weekly email reports for this specific monitor.
Projects
You can tag this monitor to a Project. Projects are an easiest way to categorize, tag and filter your different monitors, heartbeats, domains and statupages.
It will be empty by default, you need to create a new project and come back here to configure it.
Check Interval
You can configure the Check interval, which defines how often the monitor needs to be pinged.
The default is 10 Minutes but you can change it to one of the following options:
1 minute
3 minutes
5 minutes
10 minutes
30 minutes
1 hour
Request Timeout
You can configure the request timeout for the monitors.
The default is 5 Seconds but you can change it to one of the following options:
1 second
2 seconds
3 seconds
5 seconds
10 seconds
Custom request & responses
Hydrozen.io usesGET requests by default to check for the availability of the monitors.
But you can completely customise the requests and the expected responses.
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