# Http(s) status monitoring

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/http-s-status-monitoring/59366>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Tags:** alerting, plugins\
**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/http-s-status-monitoring/59366 "2022-01-20T20:11:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![omolodchenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c37758/32.png) [@omolodchenko](https://community.grafana.com/u/omolodchenko)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/http-s-status-monitoring/59366/1 "2022-01-20T20:11:28Z")

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\*Grafana 8.3.2

- I am trying to achieve basic monitoring http(s) site statuses. I want to know only if a site is up or down.  
\*I installed Grafana with AWS Cloudwatch on my local server. To do this I’ve found only Synthetic Monitoring Plugin but it is not free and needs integration with Grafana Cloud.

Could you please suggest what can I use to solve my problem?

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**Author:** ![anon70503803](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@anon70503803](https://community.grafana.com/u/anon70503803)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/http-s-status-monitoring/59366/2 "2022-01-20T22:49:55Z")

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Have you tried using Prometheus? Prometheus has a built-metric called `up{}` where every time it scrapes an endpoint, it returns 1 for up and 0 for down.

> **[Jobs and instances | Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/jobs_instances/#automatically-generated-labels-and-time-series)**
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> An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.

You should also check out loki for status codes:

[https://play.grafana.org/d/T512JVH7z/loki-nginx-service-mesh-json-version?orgId=1](https://play.grafana.org/d/T512JVH7z/loki-nginx-service-mesh-json-version?orgId=1)

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**Author:** ![omolodchenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c37758/32.png) [@omolodchenko](https://community.grafana.com/u/omolodchenko)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 7:34am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/http-s-status-monitoring/59366/3 "2022-01-21T07:34:59Z")

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Many thanks! I will try it!