How does uptime monitoring work?

Automated monitoring nodes send periodic network requests to your URL and verify that the server returns a successful response.

How Uptime Tracking Works

Uptime monitoring probes your site at scheduled intervals (such as every 30 or 60 seconds) from independent global test servers. The system validates response codes, connection latency, and server headers. If a check fails, Acumen Logs performs automatic retry checks to confirm the outage and prevent false alarms before dispatching instant alerts via Slack, email, SMS, or webhooks.

Key Check Types

Modern uptime monitoring combines HTTP/HTTPS status validation, ping response checks, and DNS resolution tracking into a unified view.

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