Uptime checks
Apitally automatically checks whether your applications are running and sending heartbeats every minute. If Apitally stops receiving heartbeats from an environment, it will send you an alert. You can disable alerts for specific environments.
Health checks
Health checks monitor your application’s availability by sending HTTP GET requests to a specified endpoint in 1 minute intervals. If the endpoint returns a successful response within 5 seconds, your application is considered healthy.
We recommend you use a dedicated health check endpoint that doesn’t require authentication.