Infrastructure Monitoring

Global Uptime Monitoring

Uptime monitoring tracks the availability and performance of your services from the perspective of actual users. ProxyHat's global proxy network enables monitoring from 195+ countries, detecting regional outages and performance issues before they impact customers.

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195+ Countries Real User IPs 99.9% Network Uptime

What is Uptime Monitoring?

Uptime monitoring is the practice of continuously checking the availability, performance, and functionality of websites, APIs, and services. It detects outages, slowdowns, and errors to minimize downtime and maintain service level agreements (SLAs). Comprehensive uptime monitoring requires checking from multiple geographic locations to identify regional issues and validate CDN performance.

What you can monitor

Comprehensive monitoring for all your services

Website Availability

HTTP/HTTPS checks with status code and content validation

HTTP monitoring

API Health

REST and GraphQL endpoint monitoring with response validation

API checks

Response Time

Latency tracking from multiple regions with percentile analysis

Performance

SSL Certificates

Certificate expiry and configuration monitoring

Security

DNS Resolution

DNS propagation and resolution time monitoring

Infrastructure

Transaction Flows

Multi-step user journey monitoring (login, checkout)

Synthetic

Why uptime monitoring needs geo-distributed proxies

Detect regional outages

Monitor from 195+ countries to catch outages that only affect specific regions or ISPs.

Faster incident detection

Multiple monitoring locations reduce false positives while catching real issues faster.

Accurate latency data

Measure true user-experienced latency from actual geographic locations, not datacenter estimates.

CDN validation

Residential IPs hit the same CDN edges as real users, revealing actual edge performance.

Monitoring challenges we solve

Traditional monitoring misses critical issues that affect real users

Regional Outages

A site can be down in Asia while working fine in the US. Single-location monitoring misses regional issues.

ProxyHat-Lösung:Monitor from 195+ countries to detect region-specific outages immediately.

CDN & Edge Issues

CDN edge servers can fail independently. Datacenter checks don't reflect actual CDN performance.

ProxyHat-Lösung:Residential IPs hit the same CDN edges as real users in each location.

ISP-Specific Problems

Routing issues between specific ISPs and your infrastructure can affect large user segments.

ProxyHat-Lösung:Monitor through diverse residential ISPs to detect carrier-specific issues.

Geo-Blocking Detection

Accidental geo-blocks or firewall misconfigurations can silently block legitimate users.

ProxyHat-Lösung:Continuous checks from target regions detect unintended access blocks.

Uptime monitoring scenarios

Global SaaS Platforms

Monitor SaaS application availability from all regions where customers operate.

Multi-region availability
SLA compliance tracking
Regional performance baselines

E-commerce Sites

Ensure shopping experiences work flawlessly during peak traffic and across all markets.

Checkout flow monitoring
Regional pricing verification
Payment gateway checks

CDN Performance

Validate CDN edge server performance and cache behavior from actual user locations.

Edge latency tracking
Cache hit verification
Origin failover testing

API Services

Monitor API availability and response times from the locations of your API consumers.

Endpoint health checks
Response time SLAs
Rate limit monitoring

Financial Services

Critical uptime monitoring for trading platforms, banking apps, and payment processors.

Sub-second alerting
Transaction monitoring
Compliance reporting

Media & Streaming

Monitor video delivery and content availability across global audiences.

Stream availability
Buffering detection
Geo-restriction verification

Monitoring with ProxyHat

Integrate distributed monitoring into your infrastructure

import requests
import time
from datetime import datetime

REGIONS = ['us', 'gb', 'de', 'jp', 'au', 'br']
ENDPOINT = 'https://api.yourservice.com/health'

def check_from_region(region):
    proxy = {
        'http': f'http://user-country-{region}:pass@gate.proxyhat.com:7777',
        'https': f'http://user-country-{region}:pass@gate.proxyhat.com:7777'
    }

    start = time.time()
    try:
        response = requests.get(ENDPOINT, proxies=proxy, timeout=10)
        latency = (time.time() - start) * 1000

        return {
            'region': region,
            'status': response.status_code,
            'latency_ms': round(latency, 2),
            'success': response.status_code == 200
        }
    except Exception as e:
        return {'region': region, 'error': str(e), 'success': False}

# Run checks from all regions
for region in REGIONS:
    result = check_from_region(region)
    print(f"{result['region']}: {result}")

Uptime monitoring best practices

Monitor from user locations

Configure monitoring from regions where your users actually are, not just major cloud regions.

Set appropriate intervals

Balance detection speed with cost. Critical services may need 30-second checks; others can use 5-minute intervals.

Validate content, not just status

Check for specific content in responses to catch partial failures and error pages.

Use multiple check locations

Require failures from multiple locations before alerting to reduce false positives.

Monitor dependencies

Track third-party services, APIs, and CDNs that your application depends on.

Establish baselines

Track normal performance patterns to detect anomalies before they become outages.

Choosing the right proxy type

Match your proxy infrastructure to your monitoring needs

Monitoring-Szenario	Empfohlener Proxy	Warum
CDN & edge monitoring	Residential	Real user IPs hit the same edge servers as customers
Mobile app backend	Mobile	Mobile carrier IPs match real app traffic patterns
High-frequency API checks	Datacenter	Fast, cost-effective for frequent polling
User experience monitoring	Residential	Authentic user perspective for real experience data
ISP-specific testing	Residential	Route through specific ISPs to detect carrier issues
Basic availability checks	Datacenter	High-speed, reliable for simple up/down monitoring

Monitoring infrastructure

195+

Countries

Monitor from anywhere your users are

50M+

IP addresses

Diverse network paths and ISPs

99.9%

Network uptime

Reliable monitoring infrastructure

<50ms

Proxy latency

Minimal overhead for accurate timing

Monitoring compliance

Monitor Your Own Services

Our proxies are designed for monitoring websites, APIs, and services you own or are authorized to monitor.

GDPR Compliant

Ethically sourced residential IPs with full user consent and GDPR-compliant operations.

SLA Reporting

Generate compliance reports and SLA documentation with historical uptime data.

ProxyHat supports legitimate monitoring use cases. Review our Terms of Service for guidelines.

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Why use proxies for uptime monitoring?

Proxies enable monitoring from multiple geographic locations, simulating real user access patterns. This detects regional outages, CDN edge failures, and ISP-specific issues that single-location monitoring would miss. Residential proxies also see the same CDN edges as actual users.

How often should I run uptime checks?

Check frequency depends on your SLA requirements. Critical services often need 30-second to 1-minute intervals. Less critical services can use 5-minute intervals. Balance detection speed with monitoring costs and avoid overwhelming your own infrastructure.

Can I monitor from specific cities?

Yes. ProxyHat offers city-level targeting in many countries, allowing you to monitor from specific metropolitan areas. This is valuable for testing regional CDN performance and detecting localized issues.

How do I integrate proxies with my monitoring tool?

Most monitoring tools support HTTP proxy configuration. Configure ProxyHat as the proxy endpoint for your HTTP checks. For custom solutions, use our proxy endpoints with standard HTTP libraries in any programming language.

Ready for global monitoring?

Start monitoring your services from real user locations worldwide.

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