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Per-region latency

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When you monitor from multiple regions, ePulz.io shows the response time separately for each region. This way you uncover a regional slowdown or outage that would be lost in the overall average - for example the site is fast from the EU but slow from the US.

Prerequisite

Per-region latency works with multi-region monitoring, that is when checks run from multiple geographically separated workers. If you monitor from only one location, a single region is shown.

How it works

  • Each regional worker continuously samples the latency (roughly every 5 minutes) and stores it.
  • In the monitor detail you see the current status and response time per individual region.
  • The samples have a short retention - they serve to show the current difference between regions, not a long history.

What it is good for

  • You uncover a CDN or routing problem that affects only some areas.
  • You verify that your site is equally fast for customers in different countries.
  • During an outage you can tell whether it is global or only in one region (and therefore more likely on the network side than your server).
Tip: per-region latency goes hand in hand with multi-region outage confirmation. We confirm an outage only when more than one region sees it - this filters out false alarms from a single location.
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