RAD PULSE
Website monitoring.
Without pretending
to be someone else.
RAD Tools uses identifiable external monitoring requests to check whether websites are online, healthy and behaving as expected.
RADTools-Monitor (+https://getradtools.com/monitoring)
RAD Pulse deliberately identifies itself. We don't disguise monitoring requests as normal visitors or browsers.
WHAT WE CHECK
Looking after more
than just uptime.
RAD Pulse performs regular external checks against websites being monitored by RAD Tools customers.
Depending on the monitoring configuration, those checks may inspect availability, SSL certificates, redirects, DNS, security headers, robots.txt, sitemaps and indexing signals.
Checks are designed to be lightweight and read-only. RAD Pulse does not modify website content.
Can the public website actually be reached?
Is the certificate valid and approaching expiry?
Does the requested URL reach the expected destination?
Does the hostname resolve correctly?
Security headers, robots.txt, sitemap and indexing configuration.
MONITORING BLOCKED
Sometimes the website
is fine. The monitor
just isn't allowed in.
Security products, firewalls and hosting platforms can intentionally reject automated monitoring traffic even while allowing normal browser visitors through.
When RAD Tools has strong enough evidence that this is happening, RAD Pulse reports Monitoring blocked rather than incorrectly declaring the website offline.
A blocked monitoring request is treated separately from a confirmed outage.
FOR HOSTING & SECURITY PROVIDERS
Easy to identify.
Easier to trust.
If you're investigating requests made by RAD Tools, the User-Agent shown above is the primary identifier for RAD Pulse.
We recommend allowing legitimate RAD Tools monitoring traffic where your security configuration supports trusted external monitoring services.
As RAD Tools infrastructure expands, this page will publish supported probe addresses and additional allowlisting guidance.
RAD Pulse sends a clear monitoring identity rather than impersonating a browser.
Standard Pulse monitoring observes public website responses. It does not alter website content.
Monitoring requests and response inspection are deliberately constrained to avoid unnecessary load.
RAD Tools aims to distinguish outages, recommendations and monitoring interference instead of reducing everything to pass or fail.
SOMETHING LOOK WRONG?
Seen RAD Tools
in your logs?
If you're a hosting provider, security provider or site owner and have questions about RAD Pulse monitoring traffic, get in touch.