hosting

POST /v1/uptime/monitors

Start watching a web address.

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Authentication

Send an API key as a bearer token. This endpoint does not state a specific permission in the specification, so give your key the least it needs and check the response rather than assuming.

Where your organisation id goes

This endpoint takes org_id as a query parameter. Leave it out and the call covers your whole tenancy subtree; send it to narrow the call to one organisation.

Your organisation id is on the API keys screen in your dashboard, beside the key itself. It is the same id in every call you make.

Try it

Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.

curl -X POST https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/uptime/monitors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer zdk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "url": <string> }'

Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console

Details

Gated on `uptime.manage`. The address may be **any public http(s) URL** — we do not need to host it, and it need not belong to the customer at all. Refused with 422 when the address is not a public web address (an internal or non-HTTP address is refused in wording that does not confirm our network shape), when this organisation already watches it, or when its allowance is used up. Every account includes three monitored URLs; further capacity is the `uptime_urls_10` extra.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredWhat it is
org_id (query)stringNoWhich organisation in the caller's subtree the monitor belongs to — what the dashboard's org switcher sends. ⛔ **Narrow only:** intersected with what the caller may already writ…

Request body

NameTypeRequiredWhat it is
urlstringYesAny public http(s) address. Stored canonicalised — userinfo stripped, fragment dropped, default port removed — so what is measured, cached and shown are the same string.
namestringNoWhat to call it on screen. Blank falls back to the host. ⛔ `name`, not `label`: `label` is an attribute of DRF's `Field` and cannot be a serializer field name, and a read key th…
expect_textstringNoText that must appear in the response for the check to pass. ⭐ This is what catches the failure a status code cannot — a site whose database has gone but whose index still answe…

Response

NameTypeRequiredWhat it is
idstringYes
urlstringYes
namestringNo
statestring<unknown, up, down, paused>Yes⛔ `unknown` is a real state and is not a synonym for `up` — it means "not checked yet" and is excluded from every uptime percentage.
enabledbooleanYes
expect_textstringNo
site_idstringNoSet only when the address happens to be one of this organisation's own sites. Navigation only — the monitor works identically without it, and must, because the product exists to…
last_result_atstringNo
last_up_atstringNo
last_down_atstringNo
created_atstringYes
summaryUptimeSummaryNo
historyUptimeHistoryPoint[]No
incidentsUptimeIncident[]No
vitalsUptimeVitalsPoint[]No
migration_offerUptimeMigrationOfferNo

Errors this endpoint can return

401 · 403 · 422