Real-Time Monitoring

URL
Monitoring

Endpoint Health Checks, Uptime Tracking & Status Code Alerts

Ensure your most critical web pages and APIs are always reachable. BigBell continuously pings your URLs from multiple global locations, instantly alerting you if an endpoint goes offline.

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Overview

What is URL Monitoring?

URL monitoring is the automated, continuous process of sending synthetic requests (like HTTP GET or POST) to a specific web address to verify that it is online, responding quickly, and returning the correct status code. It acts as the first line of defense in website uptime management, ensuring that end-users can actually reach your critical pages and API endpoints.

Why URL Monitoring Matters

If your homepage or checkout API goes down, you are losing money by the minute. Server-side monitoring (like tracking CPU) won't tell you if a firewall rule accidentally blocked external traffic to your site. By using external URL monitoring, you simulate real user traffic. When a URL starts returning a 502 Bad Gateway or simply times out, you receive an instant alert, drastically cutting down your Mean Time To Detect (MTTD) an outage.

✓Know immediately when your website or API goes offline
✓Monitor uptime from multiple geographic locations
✓Verify specific HTTP status codes (e.g., 200 OK)
✓Track historical uptime percentages for SLA reporting

Core Use Cases

URL monitoring is heavily used by e-commerce companies to track the availability of their checkout flows, by SaaS platforms to monitor critical REST API endpoints, and by marketing teams to ensure their landing pages are up during major ad campaigns.

Features

Complete URL Monitoring Capabilities

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Global Checkpoints

Ping your URLs from multiple geographic locations to ensure regional availability and prevent false positives.

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Status Code Verification

Alert not only on total timeouts, but on unexpected HTTP status codes (like 404s, 500s, or 503s).

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High Frequency Polling

Check your critical URLs as frequently as every 30 seconds so you are always the first to know about an outage.

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Instant Notifications

Receive immediate alerts via Slack, SMS, or PagerDuty the moment your URL fails a health check.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Server monitoring checks the internal health of the machine (CPU, memory). URL monitoring checks the external accessibility of the website, simulating a real user attempting to load the page.

Yes, BigBell allows you to configure custom HTTP headers (like Authorization tokens) and POST payloads to monitor protected API endpoints.

We use multi-location verification. If a URL check fails from one location, we immediately double-check it from another geographic region before triggering an alert.

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