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  1. Find a template
  2. Available templates
  3. Preview a template
  4. Create a sensor from a template
  5. Template or manual configuration?

A template starts from what you want to monitor — Is my website online?, Did last night's backup run?, Is PostgreSQL reachable? — and prepares the right sensor for it: the right check, a sensible schedule, the right severity. You only complete what is specific to your environment, such as the address, the host or the connection secret.

Templates are maintained by Onagre and are the same for every organization. Open them from New monitor → Start from a template, or from Monitoring → Templates.

Find a template#

  • Search a need or a technology: backup, postgres, ssl, dns, ssh, redis, cron…
  • Popular gathers the checks most teams set up first.
  • The categories group the others: Web & APIs, Infrastructure & Network, Databases & Storage, Jobs & Workers. All shows the whole catalog.

A badge tells you when a template needs a Private agent — database, Redis, queue and file checks run inside your network — or a higher plan.

Available templates#

Category Templates
Web & APIs Website availability, Slow website, Page contains text, Page must not contain text, API endpoint availability, API returns expected value, Protected endpoint stays protected, XML or SOAP service
Infrastructure & Network TLS certificate, DNS resolution, Host reachable (ping), TCP service availability, SSH server, Port must stay closed
Databases & Storage PostgreSQL availability, SQL Server availability, MySQL / MariaDB availability, Database health query, Application activity, Redis availability, Redis key check, File integrity
Jobs & Workers Scheduled job, Nightly backup, Daily import or sync, Background worker, Dead-letter queue, Queue backlog

Several templates rely on the same type of sensor with different settings: SSH server and Port must stay closed are both Port sensors; Nightly backup and Background worker are both Heartbeat sensors.

Preview a template#

Click a template to see what it sets up before using it: how it works, the type of sensor, the pre-configured schedule, timeout and severity, and You'll provide — what remains to fill in. Details opens the template's page, with a tip and related templates.

The Nightly backup template: how it works, a Heartbeat monitor expected daily at 02:00 with a 2-hour grace period and Critical severity, what you'll provide, a tip, and a Use this template button.
A template shows what it sets up and what you still need to provide.

Create a sensor from a template#

  1. Click Use this template.
  2. The normal sensor form opens, pre-filled. A box at the top recalls what you still need to provide and the template's tip.
  3. Complete it — address or host, connection secret, agent — and choose the integrations to alert.
  4. Click Continue, review, and click Create monitor.
Pick a template, check what it sets up, and complete the pre-filled form; every field can still be changed.

Every pre-filled value can be changed, before or after creation; the sensor does not stay linked to the template. Templates never contain an address, a host or a password: those are always yours to enter.

If the template's check is not included in your plan, the preview says so and an administrator can upgrade. Viewers can browse templates; creating the sensor requires the User role.

Template or manual configuration?#

Start from a template when one matches your need. Choose Configure manually in New monitor to pick a goal and a type of check yourself, with every option: both create exactly the same kind of sensor. See Create and manage sensors.