Server uptime using Synthetic monitoring

[harish78us1]

is there a way we get uptime for the windows server using synthetic? Note these servers are not web server, so i can not use curl (ping) option.

[philweber]

Hi, @harish78us1: You may find this post helpful:

Ping an IP or URL using ICMP ping

If you are looking for a way to ping an IP address or a URL’s domain using ICMP Ping, like you would from the OS command line, here’s some code for an Synthetic API monitor that works well. Please note that builtin New Relic Synthetic “Ping” monitor actually tries to do an HTTP request, whereas this code does an actual ICMP ping, recording latency and failure rates, which you can graph in Insights. To use this, create an Synthetic API monitor, paste in the code, and edit the first two variable…

Rather than Synthetics, you might consider using the Flex integration to execute an actual ping or uptime command.