Monitor Vercel with PULSX

Why Monitor Vercel?

Monitor Vercel deployments, Edge Functions, and serverless API routes. When your Vercel integration goes down, it can affect your entire application. Proactive monitoring helps you catch issues before they impact your users.

Key Endpoints to Monitor

Based on typical Vercel integrations, here are the most important endpoints to monitor:

• /
• /api/health
• /_next/static
• /sitemap.xml

Your specific endpoints may vary depending on how you've integrated Vercel with your application.

Monitoring Best Practices

Follow these tips to get the most out of your Vercel monitoring:

• Monitor your production domain rather than the *.vercel.app alias, so a domain or DNS failure is caught
• Track API routes under /api/* separately from pages, since serverless functions fail independently
• Check an Edge Function route to catch regional failures the origin never sees
• Watch for cold-start latency by alerting on response time, not just availability
• Set up SSL certificate monitoring on every custom domain attached to the project

Setting Up Monitoring in PULSX

Getting started with Vercel monitoring in PULSX is straightforward:

1. Add a new HTTP monitor - Enter your Vercel endpoint URL
2. Configure check interval - We recommend 60-second checks for critical endpoints
3. Set expected response codes - Usually 200-299 for healthy endpoints
4. Configure alerts - Set up email, Slack, or webhook notifications
5. Add to status page - Optionally include in your public status page

Alert Configuration

For Vercel integrations, we recommend:

• 60-second check intervals - Catch issues quickly
• Alert after 2 consecutive failures - Reduce false positives
• Retry-verified alerts - Failures are confirmed before alerting, so a blip never looks like a Vercel outage
• SSL certificate monitoring - Get alerts before certificates expire

Troubleshooting Common Issues

If you're seeing alerts for your Vercel integration:

• Check Vercel's status page - The issue may be on their end
• Verify your credentials - API keys or OAuth tokens may have expired
• Check rate limits - You may be hitting Vercel's rate limits
• Review webhook configuration - Ensure endpoints are correctly configured in Vercel