Alert sending rules

3 min read · Notifications

Understanding when and why ePulz.io sends alerts - so you can optimize the configuration for the minimum of false-positives.

When an alert is sent

An alert is sent when: - The monitor returns a status other than expected (default 200) - Response time exceeds the timeout - The keyword in the content is missing (if set) - The SSL certificate has expired or will expire in 30/14/7/3/1 days - Domain WHOIS expiration in 90/30/14/7/3/1 days - A heartbeat monitor did not receive a ping within the interval + grace

Notify after failures

The default is 1 (immediate alert). Increasing to 2 reduces false-positives (a single transient glitch will not send an alert).

Multi-region consensus

For Pro+ plans, multi-region check is available. An alert is sent only if N regions confirm the outage - this eliminates regional network glitches.

Recovery alerts

After an outage, when the monitor returns OK again, a recovery alert is sent with the total duration. You can disable this in settings.