Creating Monitors and Setting Up Alerts
What Is a Monitor?
A Monitor runs a collection automatically on a schedule - hourly, daily, or at custom intervals - so an API's health can be checked continuously without manual effort.
Creating a Monitor
From a collection's context menu, choose Monitor Collection, select the environment, set the run frequency, and choose which region the checks run from.
Setting Up Alerts
| Alert Type | Trigger |
|---|---|
| Email alert | Sent when a monitored run fails |
| Slack/Integration alert | Sent to a connected channel on failure |
| Consecutive failure threshold | Notifies only after repeated failures |
Why Monitors Matter
Monitors catch issues like downtime or broken endpoints before users report them, giving teams an early warning system for API health.
Monitoring keeps existing APIs healthy - next, let's look at how Postman helps you document APIs so others can understand and use them.
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