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  1. Welcome to Uptime 👋
  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started
    2. Working with monitors
    3. Customizing monitors
    4. Monitor types
      1. Uptime monitor
      2. Keyword monitor
      3. Ping monitor
      4. Cron and heartbeat monitor
      5. Playwright monitor
      6. API monitor
      7. DNS monitor
      8. Domain expiration monitor
      9. SSL certificate monitor
      10. TCP/UDP port monitor
  4. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started
    2. Sending alerts to Slack ↗
    3. Connecting external calendars
    4. Advanced guide
  5. Incidents
    1. Get started
    2. Advanced guide
  6. Status pages
    1. Get started
    2. Advanced guide
  7. Integrations
    1. Integrating with Better Stack
  8. Team and account management
    1. Team management
    2. Account settings
    3. Audit logs
    4. Migrating to pay as you go
  9. Uptime API
    1. Get an API token
    2. Monitors
    3. Heartbeats
    4. On-call & incidents
    5. Status pages
    6. Metadata
    7. Integrations

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 Alert us when the host above selection to 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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