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Have you noticed that sometimes the Availability chart for your Web Uptime Test dips below 100%? But you don't have any outages listed? This means that we have observed a drop in connectivity, which does not match your alerting threshold - such as one node seeing a connectivity blip, and another not when you have a minimum of 2 failing nodes set (Sensitivity on 2). We still record that the fact that there was (possibly) a drop in connectivity, and so this will reflect on the graphs you are pre...

The sensitivity option allows you to control how many monitoring "nodes" need to report the same failure condition before it is counted as an outage. For example: You have a website running with Acme ISP, and a an uptime test configured with a sensitivity of two. A monitoring node based in Azure EU (Ireland) identifies that your website is inaccessible, but another located in our data centre in the Berkshire area indicates that it is available. No alert would be triggered. If the sensitivity...