Terms: H
- Health checkHealth check is a request or probe that evaluates whether a service is healthy. Teams use the term to keep checks, alerts, and reviews precise.
- Health endpointHealth endpoint is a dedicated URL that reports whether a service is ready to work. Teams use the term to keep checks, alerts, and reviews precise.
- Heartbeat monitoringHeartbeat monitoring is expecting a periodic signal from a job and alerting when the signal is late or missing.
- Heartbeat URLHeartbeat URL is the URL a job must request to prove it is still running on schedule.
- HMACHMAC is a keyed hash used to authenticate a message such as a webhook body.
- Hosted status pageHosted status page is a status page served on infrastructure managed by the monitoring provider.
- Hostname mismatchHostname mismatch is when a certificate does not cover the hostname being visited.
- HTTP monitoringHTTP monitoring is checking services over HTTP. Teams use the term to keep checks, alerts, and reviews precise.
- HTTP redirectHTTP redirect is an HTTP response that tells the client to continue at another URL.
- HTTP status codeHTTP status code is a three-digit code describing the result of an HTTP request.
- HTTP timeoutHTTP timeout is the client-side limit on how long to wait for an HTTP response.
- HTTPS certificateHTTPS certificate is the certificate presented by a site serving HTTPS.
- HTTPS monitoringHTTPS monitoring is checking services over HTTPS with TLS. Teams use the term to keep checks, alerts, and reviews precise.