Again, press +Add New Monitor but this time choose HTTP(s) for Monitor Type
As for the others, choose a Friendly Name and this time enter the URL of the website, not the hostname
In the Advanced part, under Accepted Status Codes I’ve added status 300–399 in addition to status 200–299, because Grafana makes a lot of redirects so it’s normal to have a status code between 300 and 399 for this website (of course it depends on the website you want to monitor)
If you’re interested in Grafana, I’ve written another article about it, this time for monitoring Nginx logs
let’s get back to the subject, go to the Tags part and select the previously created tag service and press Add
Basic Auth configuration
If, like me, your website has a basic auth in front of it, you can configure the check so that it can log in and check if the website is running correctly or not
To do that, go to the Authentication part and select HTTP Basic Auth
Then enter the username and the password to access the website or the token if you have configured one
Press Save at the bottom of the page and the check is done
On the check page we have just created, you will find the following information, including one indicating the number of days remaining before the site’s SSL certificate expires.
Alright, now we have our 3 checks working perfectly!
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