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Monitoring

How checks and confirmation work

Failure and recovery confirmation cycles that prevent false alerts.

statusloop does not open an incident on the first failed check. Confirmation rules differ slightly by resource type.

Uptime monitors

RuleValueEffect
Failure confirmation2 cyclesTwo consecutive failed check cycles before status down and incident open
Recovery confirmation2 cyclesTwo consecutive successes before incident closes
Minimum incident duration60 sIncident must be open at least one minute before recovery can close it
Slowdown threshold5 failed cyclesAfter five failures, interval drops to 15 minutes until recovery

With a 15-second scheduler tick, two cycles means roughly 30 seconds of confirmed failure before alerting (plus your chosen check interval for the actual HTTP/TCP probe).

Healthchecks

Healthchecks use expected ping time + grace period instead of consecutive probe failures. See Healthchecks overview.

Servers

Servers are marked down when heartbeats stop. Threshold: max(45 s, interval × 2.5) without a heartbeat. See Server monitoring.

Mute

While muted, monitors skip checks and status is frozen — no new incidents from that monitor until unmute.

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