Automated API Health Monitoring with Make.com
Build a Make.com scenario that periodically checks API endpoints, measures response times, and alerts the team when services degrade or go down.
Create a lightweight monitoring system that provides uptime tracking, performance metrics, and incident alerting without dedicated monitoring tools.
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Create a lightweight monitoring system that provides uptime tracking, performance metrics, and incident alerting without dedicated monitoring tools.
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A startup with 5 microservices can't afford Datadog/PagerDuty yet. They need basic API monitoring with Slack alerts when any service returns errors or exceeds 2-second response time.
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Act as a site reliability engineer. Design a Make.com scenario for [COMPANY NAME] that monitors the health of [NUMBER] API endpoints.\n\n**Context:**\n- Endpoints to monitor: [URL 1], [URL 2], [URL 3], [URL 4], [URL 5]\n- Check frequency: every [MINUTES] minutes\n- Alert channel: [SLACK/PAGERDUTY/EMAIL]\n- Acceptable response time: [MILLISECONDS] ms\n- Acceptable error rate: [PERCENTAGE]%\n\n**Deliverables (numbered):**\n1. Health check module: HTTP request to each endpoint with timeout of [SECONDS] seconds, measure response time, validate status code and response body\n2. Status determination logic: healthy (200 + under threshold), degraded (200 + over threshold or intermittent errors), down (non-200 or timeout)\n3. Alert routing: immediate alert on 'down', warning on 'degraded', no alert on 'healthy'; include endpoint URL, response time, status code, and timestamp\n4. Incident management: if endpoint stays down for [MINUTES] consecutive checks, escalate to [ESCALATION CHANNEL]; auto-resolve when 3 consecutive checks pass\n5. Dashboard data: write check results to [GOOGLE SHEETS/AIRTABLE] with timestamp, endpoint, status, response time for historical tracking\n6. Weekly report: uptime percentage per endpoint, average response time, incident count, MTTR (mean time to recovery)\n7. Maintenance window handling: skip checks during scheduled maintenance windows defined in [CONFIG SOURCE]\n\n**Constraints:**\n- Must handle authenticated endpoints (API keys, Bearer tokens)\n- Must not alert during known maintenance windows\n- Must support POST endpoints with custom payload for health checks
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