What FastPing can monitor
Websites, APIs, certificates, domains, DNS, email security, scheduled jobs and game servers: pick a use case to see how FastPing checks it and how to set it up.
Use cases
- Website monitoringStatus codes, redirects, certificates and response time, checked as often as every 30 seconds.
- API monitoringCustom requests with headers and bodies, JSON value assertions and response-time warnings.
- SSL certificate monitoringExpiry warnings and alerts for broken chains, hostname mismatches and self-signed certificates.
- Domain expiry monitoringRegistration expiry dates straight from the registry, with warnings 30 days ahead.
- Cron job monitoringHeartbeat URLs that alert you when a backup, cron job or scheduled task does not report in.
- DMARC, SPF and DKIM monitoringGraded SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, with change alerts for SPF and DMARC and for DKIM keys that disappear.
- DNS monitoringChange alerts for A, MX, NS, TXT, CAA and other records, as public resolvers see them.
- Blacklist monitoringMail server IPs and domains checked against DNS blocklists such as Spamhaus every six hours.
- Mail server monitoringSMTP, IMAP and POP3 servers: greeting, STARTTLS or TLS and certificates, without logging in.
- WebSocket monitoringHandshake checks for ws:// and wss:// endpoints, with an optional message and expected reply.
Game servers
FastPing queries game servers with the same protocol their server browser uses, so "online" means the server shows up in players' server lists. Game server monitoring
- Minecraft server monitoringJava Edition status like the multiplayer screen shows it: online, players, version and MOTD.
- Minecraft Bedrock server monitoringRakNet pings over UDP: online status, players, version, world and game mode.
- CS2 server monitoringSteam A2S queries for Counter-Strike 2: online status, map and players.
- Rust server monitoringQueries on the Steam query port: online status, players, map and version.
- ARK server monitoringARK: Survival Evolved servers on their Steam query port: online status, players and map.
- Valheim server monitoringQueries on the game port plus one, for servers started in public mode.
- Garry's Mod server monitoringSteam A2S queries on the game port: online status, map, players and version.
- DayZ server monitoringQueries on the steamQueryPort from serverDZ.cfg: online status, players and map.
- FiveM server monitoringRoleplay servers read through their public endpoints: players, slots, version and resources.
- RedM server monitoringRed Dead Redemption 2 roleplay servers: online status, players, slots and version.
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