Monitor Types

Pinger is built to monitor any part of your infrastructure. We currently support 11 different monitor types, each tailored for a specific protocol or use case.

Standard Monitors

• Website: Standard HTTP/HTTPS GET requests to verify uptime and response times.
• API: Advanced HTTP requests with custom headers, methods, and JSON body assertions.
• Supabase: Direct integration to verify Supabase project health endpoints.

Background Jobs

• Cron: Verify that a cron job runs on time, with a specified grace period.
• Heartbeat: A passive dead man's switch. Your application sends a ping to Pinger; if it stops, an incident is created.

Network Protocols

• TCP: Ensure a specific IP or Domain is accepting connections on a given port.
• DNS: Verify that DNS resolution is functioning properly for a given hostname.
• WebSocket: Verify that a WebSocket endpoint is accepting connections.

Security & Content

• SSL: Track SSL/TLS certificate validity and receive alerts before expiration.
• Domain: Monitor domain registration and receive alerts before the WHOIS expiry date.
• Keyword: Verify that a specific keyword exists (or does not exist) within an HTTP response body.