Link Monitoring

Link Monitoring checks the uptime of the landing page links you already use. On a schedule, Integr8 opens each monitored URL, follows the redirects a visitor would follow, and records whether the destination still works.

When to use Link Monitoring

• Watching the uptime of active offer landing pages that publishers already use
• Catching broken or changed advertiser destinations before traffic stays broken
• Checking a country-specific, US state-specific, or device-specific path when that is how real traffic arrives
• Getting email or Slack notice when a monitored landing page stays down

Before you begin

• Create an offer with a valid redirect URL on the landing page you want to watch.
• Set up Notification Settings so you can receive downtime alerts. On TOOLS > Link Monitoring, click Edit Notification Settings, add one or more emails, and optionally a Slack webhook. See Notification settings.
• Plan around the organization limit of 5,000 checks per calendar month. Scheduled checks and Check Now both count. Choose check frequency and how many monitors you keep active with that allowance in mind. See Monthly check limit.
• Decide whether checks should run from a specific country or device profile. If the offer has targeting rules, set Country and Device in the check profile to match that targeting so the monitor follows a path real traffic can take. When Country is United States, you can optionally also set State to run checks from a specific US state.
• Optional: create a Slack incoming webhook URL if you want Slack alerts, then paste it in Notification Settings.

How to access it

In the sidebar under TOOLS, open Link Monitoring.

The overview lists every monitor for your integration. Open a row to see that monitor’s detail page (uptime, stats, check history, and settings).

What a check does

Each monitor uses the landing page redirect URL stored on the offer. Integr8 runs the check with the profile you set (how often, country, optional US state, device, and timeout), then follows every hop until it reaches a final page or fails.

A check can fail when:

• The destination does not respond in time
• A hop in the redirect path breaks or returns an error
• The final domain is not one of your Expected final domains (if you set any)

Macros in the redirect URL (for example {transaction_id}) stay as written. The check uses the stored URL as-is; it does not fill publisher or click values.

Scheduled checks update alert status. A manual Check Now run still appears in history, but it does not change alert status.

Failure alerts (per monitor) decide whether repeated failures open an incident. Edit Notification Settings (organization-wide) decide who gets email or Slack when those incidents fire or recover.

Monthly check limit

Your organization can run up to 5,000 Link Monitoring checks per calendar month. Scheduled checks and Check Now both count toward that limit.

When the limit is reached, new checks do not run until the next month. More frequent Check Frequency settings and more active monitors use the allowance faster.

If you need more than 5,000 checks per month, contact support@integr8.co. See How to reach support for what to include in your request.

Create a monitor

1. Open Link Monitoring in the sidebar under TOOLS.

2. Click Create to open Monitor a Link.

3. Under Select page to monitor:

   • Choose the offer in Select Offer
   • Choose the landing page in Select Landing Page

4. Review the redirect URL shown under the selectors.

5. Configure the Check profile:

   • Check Frequency: every 5 minutes, every 15 minutes, or every hour. Higher frequency uses the monthly check limit faster.
   • Country (optional): run the check as if from that country
   • State (optional, United States only): appears only when Country is United States. Pick a US state to run the check through a residential proxy in that state. Leave it empty to keep US country-only targeting. State is hidden for every other country, and state targeting outside the US is not supported.
   • Device: a predefined device, your current browser, or a custom user agent
   • Timeout: 10s, 15s, or 30s

   If the offer has targeting settings (geo, device, or OS), configure Country, State (when US state targeting applies), and Device to match. That keeps the monitor aligned with allowed traffic instead of checking a path the offer would block.

6. Optional: add Expected final domains. If you add any, the check fails when the final destination is not on that list.

7. Leave Link monitoring is active on unless you want to create the monitor paused.

8. Optional: turn on Failure alerts and set Alert after consecutive failures (default is 2).

9. Click Save.

After you save an active monitor, scheduled checks start on the frequency you chose. Each offer landing page can have only one monitor. Landing pages that already have a monitor are marked as already monitored in the selector.

Manage monitors on the overview

From the Link Monitoring overview you can:

• Search and filter the table
• Open a monitor by clicking its landing page cell or choosing Open
• Activate or Deactivate a monitor from the row actions
• Delete a monitor (prefer deactivate if you might need it again)

Default overview columns:

Column	Description
Landing page	Offer and landing page name, plus the redirect URL
Uptime 90d	Share of successful checks over the last 90 days
P95 latency	How long the slower successful checks took over the last 90 days
Alert status	Current alert state from scheduled checks
Country	Country used for the check, if set. When the country is United States and a state is set, the cell shows both (for example, United States / California)
Device	Device or browser profile used for the check
Max Hop	How many redirects the check will follow before stopping
Timeout	How long the check waits before failing
Actions	Activate or deactivate, open, or delete

Inactive monitors show Inactive instead of uptime and latency values.

Monitor detail

Open a monitor to review recent health and history.

Status and actions

The header shows the offer and landing page, alert status, and a short status description. When a country is set, the header includes it. For United States monitors with a state, it shows both (for example, Country: United States / California). From here you can:

• Click Check Now to run one on-demand check
• Click Edit Settings to change the check profile, expected domains, active state, or failure alerts. The same Country, State (United States only), and Device guidance applies when you update an existing monitor: match them to the offer’s targeting when targeting is set. Changing Country away from United States clears any selected State.

Uptime and stats

The detail page shows:

Panel	What it means
90-day uptime bar	Daily health for the last 90 days: Good, Partial Outage, Major Outage, or No test
Uptime	Overall uptime percentage for the last 90 days
Failed checks	How many completed checks failed in that window
P95 latency	How long the slower successful checks took
SSL Cert expiry	Days left on the destination security certificate, when available

Check history

Check History (Last 30 tests) lists recent results with timestamp, hops, latency, failed reason, status code, country, final URL, and user agent. The Country value on each row includes the US state when the check used one (for example, United States / California).

Click View redirect chain on a row to inspect each hop in the redirect path.

When a monitor fails

1. Open the monitor detail page.
2. Review Check History for the failed reason, final URL, and status code.
3. Open View redirect chain on a failed row to see which hop broke.
4. Fix the landing page redirect URL (or the advertiser destination) on the offer.
5. Wait for the next scheduled checks. To leave Firing or Recovering, Integr8 needs two consecutive successful scheduled checks before status returns to Healthy.

If the link is still broken, you can Deactivate the monitor temporarily. That stops scheduled checks and new alert noise without deleting the monitor or wiping its other settings. Turn it back on when the destination is fixed.

Use Check Now to confirm a fix in history right away. Manual checks do not clear alert status; only scheduled successes do.

Alert status

Alert status updates from scheduled checks only. Manual Check Now runs never change it.

Status	Meaning
Healthy	No open incident
Pending	Failures observed, still below your Alert after consecutive failures threshold
Firing	Incident open; the consecutive-failure threshold was reached
Recovering	Incident still open; waiting for a second consecutive successful scheduled check before returning to Healthy

From Pending, one successful scheduled check returns the monitor to Healthy. From Firing, the first success moves it to Recovering, and a second consecutive success returns it to Healthy. A failure while Recovering moves it back to Firing.

Turn Failure alerts off on a monitor if you want history without opening incidents for that landing page.

Notification settings

Notifications are organization-wide for Link Monitoring. They are not required fields and are not configured per monitor, but you should set them up if you want to be contacted when a monitor fails.

Per-monitor Failure alerts control whether an incident opens. Notification Settings control who gets email or Slack when those incidents fire. Without recipients saved here, incidents can still open on the monitor, but nobody receives an alert message.

1. Go to TOOLS > Link Monitoring.
2. Click Edit Notification Settings (toolbar on the overview). The Link Monitoring Notification drawer opens.
3. Under Get notified by Email on down times, enter an Email address. Click Add Email for each additional recipient.
4. Optional: under Get notified by Slack on down times, paste a Slack webhook URL. Leave it blank to turn Slack off.
5. Click Save.

Email and Slack each send at most three downtime messages per hour.

Field reference

Field	Required	Description
Select Offer	Yes	Offer that owns the landing page
Select Landing Page	Yes	Default or additional landing page to monitor
Check Frequency	Yes	How often scheduled checks run. Higher frequency uses the monthly check limit faster
Country	No	Country for the check; leave empty to skip. Recommended when the offer has geo targeting
State	No	US state for the check. Shown only when Country is United States. Leave empty for US country-only targeting. Not available for other countries
Device	Yes	Device or browser profile used for the check. Match offer device or OS targeting when set
Custom User Agent	Sometimes	Required when you choose a custom user agent
Timeout	Yes	How long the check waits before failing
Expected final domains	No	Allowed final domains; empty skips this rule
Link monitoring is active	Yes	Inactive monitors are not scheduled
Failure alerts	No	Opens an incident after repeated destination failures
Alert after consecutive failures	When alerts are on	How many scheduled failures in a row open an incident (1 to 100)

US state targeting

Optional US state targeting lets you run Link Monitoring checks through a residential proxy in a specific US state, not only from the United States in general.

• State appears only after you select United States as Country.
• Choose a state from the list in the UI. Leaving State empty keeps the current country-only behavior.
• Selecting any non-US country hides State. State targeting outside the US is not supported.
• An invalid or unsupported state is rejected with a clear error. Integr8 does not silently fall back to country-only when you explicitly select a state.
• Overview, monitor detail, and check history show the selected state next to the country when one is set.

The same optional US state option is available in the 24metrics Redirect Link Tester when country is United States.

Next steps

• Landing pages: add or update the destination URL you want to monitor
• Tracking links: confirm publishers are using the correct offer and landing page link