Description: WebSocket monitoring by NodePing
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WebSocket Checks can be used to monitor the availability of RFC-6455 and Socket.io (0.9.X) compatible WebSocket services. WebSocket is a protocol providing full-duplex communications channels over a single TCP connection. It is designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers, but it can be used by any client or server application. The WebSocket Protocol is an independent TCP-based protocol. Its only relationship to HTTP is that its handshake is interpreted by HTTP servers as an Upgrade request. T
WebSocket checks should be used to monitor the availability of WebSocket services. It can optionally send a string 'message' to the websocket as part of the check and also verify that any return data either contains or does not contain a particular text. For instance, you can have the WebSocket check send 'mycustomcall' to your WebSocket service and verify that the response from service contains 'you must log in'.
To set up a WebSocket check,