Monitor website uptime behind Cloudflare Access

Zero Trust Access
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I have an internal website and it is protected by Cloudflare Access. What is a strategy to monitor the website’s uptime? Here are my thoughts so far.

  • Create a single publicly available URL (not protected by Cloudflare Access). This represents the website status. Hook a monitoring tool to that URL. This is not a desirable approach because it pokes a hole in the security layer.
  • Use Cloudflare to monitor the website, then feed the result back to my monitoring solution. I’m not sure if Cloudflare has this capability.
  • Internally monitor the website availability locally in the cloud environment. This does not reflect what users see on their end when visiting via a URL and defeats the purpose of using a monitoring website uptime.

Any other suggestion is appreciated!

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Hi,

This feature is available in [here](https://blog.cloudflare.com/new-tools-to-monitor-your-server-and-avoid-downtime/)

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  • Do you know if Cloudflare Healthcheck bypasses Cloudflare Access by default?
  • Also, it seems this feature monitors by sending a request to an origin (via IP). However, I suppose this can potentially create a false report because there are errors that only show up when accessing the website via URL (e.g., CORS, SSL, etc.,.). Is this correct?
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I would suggest looking into service tokens. You can use them to automated services authenticate with your access policies, which will allow you to check the end service

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Thank you, this seems to be the answer I am looking for.

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