RTSP camera monitoring: the 60 Mbit/s that never existed
How we monitor IP cameras over RTSP, measure frame rate and bitrate from RTP timing without decoding video, and where a 60 Mbit/s reading came from.
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External Website Monitoring: What It Is, How It Differs from Internal Monitoring, and How to Choose a Service
External monitoring checks your site from the outside — the way your users see it. What it catches that Zabbix and Prometheus cannot, what to check, from how many locations, how to avoid alert fatigue, and how to compare services.
Read article →Monitoring sites on Russian Trusted Root CA (Минцифры) certificates
Monitors pointed at hosts with a Минцифры (НУЦ) certificate no longer fail on trust. PingZen now recognises the Russian Trusted Root CA for its checks — scoped to the check itself, and gated to Russian domains by default.
Read article →Checker IPs are now one click away in the monitor form
Every check location now shows its IP address. Click it and it is on your clipboard, ready for your firewall or WAF allowlist. The addresses stay current — the server observes them as each checker connects.
Read article →Heartbeat intervals up to 30 days: monitor weekly and monthly cron jobs
You asked — we shipped: heartbeat check-in intervals up to 30 days right from the dashboard, grace periods up to 24 hours, and honest uptime stats for long-interval monitors.
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Heartbeat Monitors, Upgraded: A Dead Cron Can't Hide Anymore
A DOWN heartbeat now lights up the dashboard and sidebar like any other outage, you can click any heartbeat to see when its pings actually arrived, and a handful of rough edges in the create flow are gone.
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PingZen Now Pinpoints Cloudflare "Challenge" Blocks
When a site sits behind a Cloudflare JavaScript/Turnstile challenge, PingZen now says so explicitly — and tells you exactly how to stop the false DOWN.
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When HTTP 200 Means Down: Detecting Parked and Suspended Domains
An expired domain or unpaid hosting bill replaces your site with a parking page that still returns HTTP 200 — so classic uptime monitoring stays green while visitors see a dead site. Here is how PingZen catches it.
Read article →How to Monitor SSL Certificate Expiry (and Get Alerted Before It Breaks)
An expired TLS certificate takes your whole site down and scares away every visitor. Here is how to monitor certificate expiry and get alerted days in advance.
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