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  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started with monitoring
    2. Working with monitors
    3. Customizing monitors
      1. Naming monitors
      2. Check frequency
      3. Request timeout
      4. Confirmation and recovery period
      5. Domain expiration checks
      6. SSL certificate checks
      7. Locations and regions
      8. Request parameters, headers and HTTP authentication
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    4. Monitor types
  4. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started with on-call
    2. Sending alerts to Slack ↗
    3. Connecting external calendars
    4. Advanced on-call setup
  5. Incidents
    1. Working with incidents
    2. Create incidents manually
    3. Post mortems
  6. Status pages
    1. Get started with status pages
    2. Working with status pages
  7. Integrations
    1. Integrating with Better Stack
  8. Team and account management
    1. Team management
    2. Account settings
  9. API
    1. Get started with API
  10. Monitors API
    1. Monitors
    2. Monitor groups
    3. Heartbeats
    4. Heartbeat groups
  11. On-call & Incidents API
    1. On-call calendar
    2. Escalation policies
    3. Incidents
  12. Integrations API
    1. Email integrations
    2. Incoming webhooks
  13. Status pages API
    1. Status pages
    2. Status page sections
    3. Status page resources
    4. Status page reports
    5. Status page report updates
  14. Other API
    1. Metadata

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 → 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.

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