Uptime monitoring is the practice of repeatedly checking whether a service is reachable and healthy, then alerting when it isn’t. It is the foundation of reliability work.
Checks run at a fixed interval from one or more locations. Good uptime monitoring confirms failures from multiple regions before paging anyone, so a local network blip doesn’t trigger a false alarm.
Spectra offers uptime monitoring across six check types — website, API, ping, port, heartbeat, and SSL.
