

When creating a monitor, you choose a collection with the requests you want to run. Collection-based monitorsĪ collection-based monitor runs a series of requests from the Postman cloud on a schedule you set. Uptime monitors can only monitor URLs, API endpoints, and websites that are publicly available over the internet. Uptime statistics are recorded on the monitor’s dashboard, so you can always check the status of your API, view past trends, or pause the monitor as needed. Uptime monitors ensure the availability of your API or service around the clock and help you detect system outage issues more quickly. As soon as downtime is detected, the selected team members will get alerted by email. The uptime monitor continuously checks the availability of the URL, as often as every minute (paid plans) or every 15 minutes (free plans). Simply enter the URL you want to monitor (HTTP or HTTPS only) and select the team members to be notified of outages. There’s no need to set up collections, test scripts, or environments. Uptime monitors (open beta) make it easy to track the availability of an API or website. Once the monitor is running you’ll be alerted to any system outages or test failures, so you can identify and address issues before your API’s consumers are affected. Or create a collection-based monitor to run API test scripts, chain together multiple requests, and validate critical API flows. Quickly create an uptime monitor (open beta) to keep watch on a single API endpoint. Setting up a new monitor is easy and flexible. Postman Monitors give you continuous visibility into the health and performance of your APIs.
