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  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started
    2. Slack and other integrations ↗
    3. Connecting external calendars
    4. Advanced guide
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    1. Get started
    2. Post mortems
    3. Metadata & Catalog
    4. Screening alerts
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  5. Monitoring
    1. Get started
    2. Working with monitors
    3. Customizing monitors
    4. Monitor types
      1. Uptime monitor
      2. Keyword monitor
      3. Ping monitor
      4. Heartbeats
      5. Playwright monitor
      6. API monitor
      7. DNS monitor
      8. Domain expiration monitor
      9. SSL certificate monitor
      10. TCP/UDP port monitor
      11. Monitoring private networks
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  7. Uptime API
    1. Getting an API token
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    4. On-call & incidents
    5. Status pages
    6. Metadata
    7. Integrations
    8. Team members
    9. Organization roles
    10. Reporting

Ping monitor

Ping monitors work the same way the ping command does on a computer. If the host doesn't respond to the ICMP packets sent by ping, an incident is created, and the current on-call person or the entire team is alerted.

Creating a ping monitor

  • Go to Monitors → Create monitor.
  • Change the Alert us when selection to Host doesn't respond to ping.
  • Enter your host (IPv4 or IPv6 address) in the Host to monitor input.
  • Click Create monitor.

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