Types of Monitors in Rootly
Last updated August 29, 2024
Rootly offers a variety of monitor types to cater to different monitoring needs, ensuring you can track the health and performance of your applications and infrastructure comprehensively. Here's an overview of the monitor types available in Rootly:
Monitor Types
- Uptime Checks: Monitor the availability and responsiveness of your websites and applications. Rootly sends regular HTTP requests, checking for successful responses and measuring response times. This helps you identify outages and ensure your services are accessible to users.
- API Checks: Track the performance and availability of your API endpoints. These checks send requests to specific API endpoints, verifying successful responses and monitoring factors like status codes, response time, content validation.
- Custom Metrics: Monitor custom metrics that are specific to your applications or infrastructure. You can use scripts or integrations to monitor factors such as resource usage, database performance, or service call durations, providing crucial insights into your system's performance and resource consumption.
- Server Monitoring: Track the health and performance of your servers. You can monitor essential metrics like CPU usage, memory consumption, disk space, and network traffic. This helps you ensure your servers are operating within acceptable limits and identify potential bottlenecks.
- Database Monitoring: Ensure the smooth operation of your databases. Monitor key performance metrics including query execution times, database size, connection counts, and replication status to identify potential issues and optimize database performance.
- Log Analysis: Monitor and analyze log files from your applications and infrastructure. By examining logs, you can gain insights into errors, performance bottlenecks, and other potential issues, helping you troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
Rootly's diverse range of monitor types enables you to monitor every aspect of your application stack, ensuring you have a comprehensive overview of its health and performance.
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