PulseTrace documentation.
Everything PulseTrace can watch and how to wire it — one page per capability, each with the exact fields, limits and routes the current build enforces.
Overview
What PulseTrace is, how a monitor becomes an incident, and where each part of the product lives.
ReadQuickstart: your first monitor
Create a monitor from the app or the API, connect a Slack channel, and see the first incident open and close.
ReadMonitor types
All twelve monitor types with what each checks and an example config — HTTP, TCP, UDP, TLS, SSL/TLS security, domain security, DNS, ICMP, WebSocket, traceroute, gRPC and multi-step API.
ReadAlerting: thresholds, reminders and suppression
How a failing check becomes an alert — consecutive-failure thresholds, latency alerts, the fixed reminder schedule, dependencies and what suppresses a notification.
ReadNotification destinations
Every alert channel — Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, incident.io, Rootly, email and signed webhooks — with the events each can receive and the webhook payload.
ReadMaintenance windows
Schedule planned work so it does not open incidents or page anyone, and so the status page shows maintenance rather than downtime.
ReadIncidents
How incidents open, group, resolve and reopen; acknowledging and assigning; and the audit trail every state change leaves.
ReadIntelligence: anomalies and external change
Baseline-driven anomaly episodes with no thresholds to set, and External Intelligence — DNS, TLS, HTTP fingerprint, content and infrastructure change detection with suppression rules.
ReadSSL/TLS and domain security grading
How the A+–F grade is computed — TLS configuration, certificate, HTTP security headers and cookies — the three scoring modes, and the domain grade from RDAP, DNSSEC and SPF/DKIM/DMARC.
ReadEnvironments and the credential vault
Environment variable sets with secrets substituted into requests as {{VAR}}, and the monitor credential vault — bearer, API key, basic, mTLS, OAuth2, JWT, NTLM, Kerberos, AWS SigV4.
ReadStatus pages
Public status pages fed by your monitors: fields, limits per plan, the public JSON, custom domains and white-label — and what custom-domain setup can and cannot do today.
ReadTrust pages
Public pages that show uptime and, optionally, SSL/TLS and domain security grades for one monitor or the whole organization — for the customer's security questionnaire.
ReadReporting: availability, SLA, performance and scheduled delivery
The six report types and their CSV/PDF exports, SLA targets and error budgets, custom reports with widgets, and scheduled reports delivered to a notification destination.
ReadREST API: authentication, rate limits, idempotency and errors
Base URLs, bearer authentication with pt_live_/pt_test_ keys, per-key rate limits and their headers, Idempotency-Key, pagination and the error code vocabulary.
ReadAPI keys: scopes, restrictions, rotation and policy
Creating scoped keys, the full scope list, live vs test keys, environment and IP restrictions, expiry, rotation with a grace period, and the organization API policy.
ReadService accounts
Non-human identities that own API keys: roles, suspension, per-plan limits, and when to use one instead of a personal key.
ReadMCP server: connect an AI client
How Claude, Cursor or any MCP client connects to PulseTrace over OAuth — registering the client, the access policy and approvals, and the full list of tools it can call.
ReadProbe fleet and the private agent
How checks run across regions and pools, how to register a private monitor-worker inside your network with a registration token, the agent lifecycle — and what assignment does and does not do today.
ReadOrganization, members and roles
Members and invitations, the four roles and exactly what each can do, seats per plan, MFA, and the audit log.
ReadData retention
How long executions, change records, metrics, audit logs and API request logs are kept per plan, the organization retention setting, and what is swept.
ReadPlans and limits
The exact limits the app enforces for Free, Team, Pro and Enterprise — monitors, interval, retention, seats, regions, service accounts, status pages — and which features each plan unlocks.
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