Heartbeat monitoring: Meaning

When you create a service and expose a set of endpoints to provide API access to that service, you’ll almost certainly need to track their availability and response times, in addition to ensuring their functionality. Heartbeat Monitoring can assist you in regularly monitoring your services day in and day out so that you can genuinely know when “something is down” or just “not performing”. It is a tried-and-true mechanism of tracking a device’s or software system’s health by giving regular heartbeat events to a remote monitoring service.

Monitor to see if your scripts, agents, workers, and daemons are operating continuously and according to plan. For each heartbeat monitor, you will receive a different ping URL. In addition, you may check whether your task can communicate with your server by sending a straightforward HTTP request to the URL’s “display name” endpoint.

How does Heartbeat monitoring work?

What is a Monitoring service?

You may get detailed information on the condition of your servers—used for things like web, email, DNS, and many more services—by using the Monitoring service.

It enables you to monitor and comprehend the status of your servers instantly. You can identify several issues, such as component failure or increased traffic, by continuously monitoring your Network. Additionally, if a problem occurs, a service like this will automatically notify you by email, text, or another channel like webhooks.

The Monitoring service is intended to identify network problems such as overloaded routers, down servers, and network connectivity problems.

Benefits of Heartbeat monitoring

• It doesn’t skip a beat
• Multi-location checks
• Simple to use. Simple to set up
• Alerts you if your servers/devices are down
• It comes in a package of additional monitoring checks
• Cost-effective solution

How to configure it

After you choose your Heartbeat Monitoring provider, you will actually see how this service works. Below you will find the steps.

1. Select and enter the necessary information for your Heartbeat Monitoring to get the unique Ping URL.
2. What you need to do is to copy this URL and configure it for the server or any other device you are going to check.
3. Once you do that and your server opens the Heartbeat URL periodically, your Monitoring check should be with status UP. It will be DOWN if you do not correctly set up the URL, your server is down, Internet issues, etc.
4. View and analyze the performance reports. 

Conclusion

You now have a better understanding of Heartbeat monitoring. It is a monitoring check that is part of the Monitoring service. With it, you can check if your server/computer or any other device is connected to the Network. Sounds good, right? So don’t waste any more time, take advantage of it.