Welcome to Monit Remote Probes

The MONIT Remote Probes service allows users to configure a set of endpoints that will be probed using a specific protocol (HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, DNS, ICMP) and report as Up or Down based on the reply. If you are familiar with Uptime robot it follows a similar (more limited) concept.

It allows pull model probes, where the service will actually ask the endpoint for the status and will be alarmed in case it doesn't respond, and push model, where a node will register in the infrastructure producing heartbeats and will be alarmed if the heartbeat is older than a configured TTL (Time To Live).

The service is based on Prometheus, Prometheus Blackbox Exporter and Prometheus Pushgateway in order to test the availability of the registered endpoints.

Remote Probes Architecture