Monitors are triggers used to check the status of your environment. A Monitor can include many types of triggers. They may perform an HTTP GET request or simply listen for webhooks from GitHub.

In general, Runbook consists of two types of Monitors:

  1. Monitors that run at a scheduled interval
  2. Monitors that listen for webhooks

Reactions are automated tasks that are called when Monitors fail. When creating a Reaction, it is important to know what type of Monitor it is being attached to. In general, webhook Monitors will receive triggering events less often than Monitors that run at scheduled intervals.

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