01 / Operation
Check the useful response.
Use a complete endpoint URL, an expected status, and a bounded JSON type check. Authentication errors, invalid JSON, and failed assertions are distinct results.
Functional API monitoring / Read-only pilot
Does your API
still do its job?
Check an authenticated operation, verify its response, and keep a history of whether it works. Add a useful signal alongside your website checks.
Scoped setup and asynchronous technical support.
Start with one approved, read-only operation.
EXAMPLE / DOCUMENTATION APIREAD-ONLY GET
A response you can verify.
The request must return the expected status and the right JSON structure.
GET /api/cli/v1/documentations
HTTP 200
{ "documentations": [] }- ✓ Expected HTTP status: 200
- ✓ JSON contains a documentations array
- ✓ An empty collection is valid
Illustrative response. This page does not contact or monitor a customer API.
Try the check logic
What counts as a passing check?
Choose a sample response. The example validates the status and JSON in your browser.
HTTP 200
{ "documentations": [] }Rule: HTTP 200 and documentations must be an array. The response may be empty.
FUNCTIONAL CHECK
Passed
The request returned HTTP 200 and a documentations array. Empty arrays are valid.
Result category: ok
A check with context
Know which part failed.
02 / History
Keep the observations.
Record duration, status, and the result category. Share an uptime page using an opaque monitor identifier, with endpoint details and response data kept private.
03 / Alerts
Follow failure and recovery.
Optional downtime and recovery emails describe the transition. Continued failures do not repeat the alert. Downtime notifications have a one-hour cooldown.
Periodic observations, currently scheduled every 15–60 minutes depending on monitor count. Ten-second maximum checks, bounded responses, and no overlapping runs. Email delivery is best effort; support coverage is agreed separately.
For documentation platforms
Start with listing documentations.
A useful first operation is an authenticated GET that lists documentation collections. Validate the response without storing document names or content.
Example based on the DocsAlot REST documentation ↗.
REST coverage is available for a scoped pilot.
Dashboard MCP checks require their own authenticated session and tool-result validation. That integration is planned separately; the REST check shown here does not establish MCP health.
Live validation begins only with an approved endpoint or test workspace and securely provisioned read-only access. Stress testing is a separate engagement.
A small, useful pilot
One operation.
A clear pass condition.
Tell me which operation matters and what a working response should look like. We’ll agree the endpoint, permissions, schedule, reporting, and support scope before starting.
Discuss an API pilot ↗Please keep tokens and customer data out of the inquiry.
1. Agree a safe target
Use a public, approved endpoint with trusted DNS and a read-only operation. Confirm a traffic budget and the response assertion.
2. Provision minimal access
Provide a minimally scoped test credential through an agreed secure channel. Credential references are tied to the monitor and origin.
3. Review the first results
Validate against the approved workspace, then review history, reporting, and alert behavior before enabling ongoing checks.