Website Monitoring

What it does

This action sends a HTTP(S) request to the defined endpoint and analyzes its response.'

How it works

The action requests a URL as if it would be opened in a web browser. It fails for any HTTP Status Code other than 2XX. It does not follow redirects.

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Setup

Website Monitoring Action Features

• Check for a string: you can specify the string that should or shouldn't be present on the website for the action to pass
• Full support for HTTP Basic Authentication
• It’s possible to send a payload to the endpoint via POST data
• It’s possible to specify request headers and their values
• Timeout option sets maximum time for the action to wait for a response, by default it’s 60 seconds
• Input fields: URL, Check For String, Login, Password, UserAgent, ContentType support Environment variables
  • The action can be configured in YAML mode. See Website Monitoring YAML parameters and Website Monitoring YAML config example
  • Buddy's Website Monitoring API is supported
  • The action supports conditional execution: it can be run on each execution, only if there are changes in the repository or specific paths since last execution or if an environment variable has a specific value