Glossary

Find concise definitions for PointWarden monitoring, Incident, notification delivery, and Workspace terms.

Monitoring and evidence

Monitor: A saved definition of how PointWarden observes an Endpoint and determines its Availability.
Endpoint: The public HTTP or HTTPS target observed by a Monitor. PointWarden shows its safe scheme, host, standard port, and path.
Monitor Revision: An immutable version of Availability-affecting Monitor configuration.
Check: One observation attempt for a Monitor, producing evidence and an outcome.
Manual Check: A User-started diagnostic Check that returns immediate evidence but never changes Availability, Incidents, or notifications.
Scheduled Check: An automated Check that may change Availability, confirmation state, Incidents, and notifications.
Check Evidence: Safe retained metadata from a Check, excluding request and response content, secrets, and network addresses.
Passing Check: A Check whose final response headers arrive before timeout and whose final HTTP status is accepted by the Monitor.
Failing Check: A Check that times out, encounters a validated network failure, or returns a final HTTP status outside the accepted set.
Availability: PointWarden's evidence-based determination that a Monitor's Endpoint is Available or Unavailable.
Coverage: The share of expected Scheduled Checks for which PointWarden produced Check Evidence.
No Data: The state after two expected Scheduled Checks produce no evidence, when PointWarden makes no current Availability claim.

Suspected Failure: The temporary state after one or two consecutive Failing Checks, before enough evidence exists to open an Incident.
Incident Detection: The first Failing Check in the consecutive sequence that later opens an Incident.
Incident Confirmation: The third consecutive Failing Check, which opens an Incident and makes its opening Notification Event eligible for delivery.
Incident: A system-owned evidence record for one continuous period of confirmed unavailability.
Recovering: The temporary state after one Passing Check while an Incident remains open.
Recovery: The confirmed end of an Incident after two consecutive Passing Checks.

Notification Destination: A Workspace-owned Generic, Slack, Discord, or Microsoft Teams target that receives selected PointWarden events.
Notifier: Notifier is the product-interface name for a Notification Destination. It is not a Notification Event or Delivery.
Destination Type: The confirmed delivery format of a Notification Destination: Generic, Slack, Discord, or Microsoft Teams.
Verified Destination: A Notification Destination whose saved configuration has accepted a Test Delivery in its Destination Type's format.
Enabled Destination: A Verified Notification Destination that is eligible to receive new subscribed Notification Events.
Test Delivery: A User-started diagnostic request used to verify a Notification Destination.
Notification Event: An immutable record that an Incident opened or Recovery was confirmed.
Delivery: The at-least-once process of sending one Notification Event to one Notification Destination.
Delivery Attempt: One request made while trying to complete a Delivery.
Delivery Health: The latest operational state derived from production Delivery activity for one Notification Destination.

Workspace: The tenant that owns Monitors, Incidents, Notifiers, and retained Check Evidence.
Workspace Member: A User who belongs to a Workspace as an Owner, Admin, or Member.
Owner: The single Workspace Member with full control, including ownership decisions and Workspace deletion.
Admin: A Workspace Member who can manage Monitors, Notifiers, and non-Owner membership but cannot transfer ownership or delete the Workspace.
Member: A Workspace Member who can view operational data and run Manual Checks but cannot change configuration or membership.
Personal Workspace: The Workspace created after public signup and verification. Its original User remains its Owner and ownership cannot be transferred.
Workspace Invitation: A revocable, single-use, seven-day invitation for one verified email address to join a Workspace as an Admin or Member.
User: A person with a verified PointWarden identity who may belong to zero or more Workspaces.