Sites health check monitors a page or API on a schedule and records whether it's responding. This article covers adding a site, reviewing its status, and removing it from monitoring.
What is sites health check for?
Sites health check lets Perno Check periodically request a page or API endpoint on your behalf and record whether it responds correctly. Use it to catch outages as soon as they happen, instead of waiting for a customer to report that a site or API is down.
Switching to the Perno Check context
- Click the Context switcher in the top navigation bar.
- Select Check from the list.
Adding a site to monitor
- Click Sites health check in the left sidebar.
- Click Add site and fill in the basic info:
Name - a label to identify the site in your list. URL - the page or API endpoint to check.
- Optionally, expand Advanced settings to control how the check behaves:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Request method | The HTTP method used for the check, for example GET. |
| Expected status codes | The response codes that count as healthy, for example 200-399. |
| Timeout seconds | How long to wait for a response before treating the check as failed. |
| Check every minutes | How often the site is checked. Free plan monitors can run no more often than once per hour. |
| Notification email override | An optional email for this site's alerts; leave empty to use the default email from Perno Check settings. |
| Active | A checkbox that turns this health check on or off. |
Click Save site to start monitoring it.
Reviewing your health checks
The site now appears in your list, along with its current status, when it was last checked, and the check interval. Use Check now to run an immediate check, Edit to change its settings, or Remove to stop monitoring it:
The Perno Check dashboard also updates to reflect the new site under Health check sites, Active, Up, Down, and Unknown:
Deleting a monitored site
- Click Remove next to the site in your Sites health check list.
- A confirmation dialog appears, naming the site to be removed:
Click Delete site to permanently remove it, or Cancel to keep it and close the dialog.