Site monitoring uses detection points across regions to check the connectivity and latency of your website or API by simulating end-user access from different network environments. This topic uses the Taobao homepage as an example.
Prerequisites
Make sure you have activated Network Analysis and Monitoring. For more information, see Activate Network Analysis and Monitoring.
For more information about billing for site monitoring, see Network Analysis and Monitoring.
Step 1: Create a site monitoring task
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Log on to the Cloud Monitor console.
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In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
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On the Monitoring Tasks tab, click Create Task, and then click Single-step Detection.
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On the Create Task page, select PC side (PC) and configure the parameters for the site monitoring task.
For details about site monitoring task parameters, see Public PC-based site monitoring.
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Basic Information
For Task Type, select HTTP(S). Enter a task name. For Monitored Address, enter https://www.taobao.com/. Use the default values for the other parameters.
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Select Detection Points
Use the default detection points.
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Configure Alert Rules
Use the default availability rate alert rule.
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Configure Alert Contact Groups
Select an alert contact group and use the default values for other parameters. To create an alert contact group, see Create an alert contact or an alert contact group.
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Click Create.
Step 2: View the site monitoring results
After you create a site monitoring task, you can view its detection results. If you receive a DNS resolution exception alert, you can analyze the cause based on the alert details and troubleshoot the issue using the detection data.
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In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
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On the Monitoring Tasks tab, click the name of the target monitoring task.
You can view detection results and alert information from various dimensions.
The top of the details page displays line charts for Availability Rate (with alert threshold markers) and Response Time (including total response time, DNS time, connection time, and Time to First Byte). You can adjust the time range to 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 3 days, 5 days, or 7 days. Below the charts, filter data by ISP and City. The All, Normal, Alarms, and Errors tabs display detection records. Error records include columns such as time, detection point, detection source, resolved IP address, detection target, response time, and error information.