Port monitoring

Not everything you run is a website. Mail servers, databases, game servers, and other services listen on numbered ports. Port monitoring confirms that a given service is accepting connections.

Available on: paid plans (Hobby and above).

What it checks

You give PageWarden a host and a port number, and it confirms a connection can be opened, for example port 25 for mail or 5432 for a database. If the connection is refused or times out, the check fails and an incident opens.

This is a reachability check and is confirmed across regions.

Set it up

You choose the check when you create the monitor.

1. On the dashboard, select Add monitor.
2. Choose the Port type.
3. Enter the host (for example mail.example.com) and the port number (anything from 1 to 65535).
4. Name the monitor and select Create.

Good to know

• Port monitoring tells you a service is reachable, not that the application behind it is fully healthy. Pair it with an uptime or keyword check for web apps.
• Make sure the service is meant to be reachable from the public internet. A port that is firewalled off will always look down from outside.

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