What is a Real Data Check
In a real data check, we run real requests to test our application. The idea is to test functions that…
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Setting Up Uptime Monitoring Guide
Configuring your uptime monitor correctly is critical to good uptime. There are three different types of tests we’ll explore. Real Data, Health Check and Smoke Test.
Each type of test will help us test a different part of our application. We need all of these types working together to build a useful monitoring setup.
What is a health check endpoint?
Health check endpoints are HTTP endpoints created for uptime monitoring. (e.g. app.myservice.com/health) In health check endpoints you’ll run a series of…
What is a Smoke Test?
A smoke check is the same as a smoke test in unit testing. Send a request to an simple endpoint and see if it works. On an e-commerce site, check that…
So you’ve got your tests setup. What happens when there’s an incident? Let’s talk about incidents