Monitoring Glossary
Definitions, technical explanations, and systems engineering standards for website performance, server agent metrics, and API testing.
API Monitoring
The continuous validation of API endpoint availability, response latency, and payload correctness (e.g. JSONPath body matches).
Website Monitoring
Synthetic checking of a web page status via global check nodes to verify uptime and visitor experience.
Server Monitoring
OS-level agent tracking of host resources, including CPU load, memory usage, disk IOPS, and network interface rates.
SSL Monitoring
Automated auditing of SSL/TLS certificate chains, validity dates, intermediate authority trusts, and secure ciphers.
Status Page
A public-facing or private dashboard illustrating historical operational availability, incident timelines, and notification dispatches.
Response Time
The total duration in milliseconds from the initialization of a socket handshake until the complete download of the response payload.
Latency
The time delay in network communications, specifically Time To First Byte (TTFB), before data transmission begins.
Uptime
A key reliability metric expressing the percentage of time a system is fully operational and accessible to clients.
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