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# Monitoring

What monitoring checks do, how up and down are decided, what results you get back, and how a check can drive a status page on its own.

Monitoring runs scheduled health checks against your endpoints and tells your team when something fails or recovers.

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## How checks work

Each check probes one endpoint over HTTP, HTTPS, or TCP, from the US, the EU, or both. A failed probe doesn't report the check as down by itself: the check must keep failing for longer than its **down threshold** first, which is what keeps a single network blip from becoming an outage. When the check crosses that threshold it is reported as down, and when a probe succeeds again it is reported as up.

Every state change goes to the check's **notification recipients**, the team members you pick when setting it up. That is the baseline behaviour of every check. See [Configure checks](/next/monitoring/configure-checks.md) for every setting.

## What you get back

Each check has its own page with its current status, uptime over the last hour, day, and week, response time trends per region, and the raw list of executions behind them. See [Understand check results](/next/monitoring/understand-check-results.md).

## Status page automation

A check can also drive one service on one of your status pages. When the check goes down, the service's status changes and an incident notice opens on the page; when it comes back up, the notice is resolved. Subscribers are not notified by these automated notices, and the check's response times can be shown to visitors as a chart on the page. See [Connect checks to status pages](/next/monitoring/connect-checks-to-status-pages.md).