HTTP checks - status codes and other info
In this article I would like to explain status codes and other info provided in notification e-mails of Monitis for a services with HTTP checks.
HTTP protocol has the following types of error codes:
2xx - this codes indicate success
In recovery notifications you will often get 200 - OK HTTP response code, which means that the request was fulfilled.
4xx - codes are intended for cases in which the client seems to have errors
5xx - codes are intended for cases in which the server is aware that the server has errors
Most common errors of the above mentioned types are:
400 - the request had bad syntax or was inherently impossible to be satisfied
401 - the client should try the request with a suitable Authorization header
403 - the request is for something forbidden. Authorization will not help
404 - the server has not found anything matching the URI given
500 - the server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request
Beside the above mentioned status codes during HTTP checks you will also get the following information:
Connection timed out after 10 sec. - which means that for some reasons monitoring server couldn’t conduct a check during 10 seconds
Connection refused - for some reasons monitored server refused the connection request from our monitoring server
Wrong response HTTP header received - monitoring server received a response with a wrong HTTP header
Connection lasted more than 10 seconds - which means that response is exceeded 10 seconds, which is set as a timeout for HTTP check
So here it is, we’re finished with HTTP checks and will discuss the other check types in the upcoming articles.