# Locations and regions

Regions define from which locations we check the monitored URL. By default, every monitor is checked from at least 4 different locations. To prevent false positives, an incident is created only after a check fails from at least 3 locations.

To configure monitoring locations, go to [Monitors](https://uptime.betterstack.com/team/0/monitors) → **Select a monitor** → **Configure** → **Advanced settings**.

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Bear in mind that removing locations from a monitor's configuration might increase the number of false positives as well as increasing the number of incidents.
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### Uptime IP addresses and User-Agent
You can find the list of Uptime's IP addresses, as well as our User-Agent, in our [FAQs](https://uptime.betterstack.com/faq).
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