Overview

The Website Event Monitor checks your websites to make sure they are up and responding. For more advanced website monitoring options, see the Advanced Website Event Monitor.

Use Cases

• Verifying that a website is accepting requests

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

URLs

Enter one or more URLs that the event monitor will check. For multiple URLs, place them on separate lines.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the web server cannot be contacted

Use this option to get alerts when the event monitor cannot contact the web server.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if a status other than 200 (success) is returned

When a web server successfully delivers a page to a web browser, it returns a status code of 200 indicating success. Use this option to get alerts if the web server returns any other status code.

Follow HTTP redirects when they are received

In the case where the event monitor receives a redirect response, this option tells the event monitor to follow the redirect and apply the checks to the page it was redirected to.

Connect Time Out

Specify a timeout in milliseconds to tell the event monitor how long to wait while establishing a connection to the web server.

Receive Time Out

Specify a timeout in milliseconds that will tell the event monitor how long it should wait to receive the full web page content after it has connected.

Authentication and Security

This event monitor does not require authentication.

Protocols

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Download Time (ms)	The calculated download time, measured in milliseconds.

Sample Output

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.