---
title: "Edge Pulse | Synthetic Monitoring from Real User Locations"
description: "Monitor your infrastructure from 2,000+ residential locations worldwide. See what your actual users see — not what data centres see. Status pages included."
url: https://edge.network/pulse/
---

# Edge Pulse | Synthetic Monitoring from Real User Locations

[Pulse](https://edge.network/pulse)

Pulse

# Monitor from real user locations

Your CDN says it's working. Your users say it isn't. Pulse monitors from **2,000+ residential connections** worldwide — so you see exactly what your users see.

[Start Monitoring](https://edge.network/account)

Free to start — 150,000 check runs every month, no credit card required.

2,000+

Probe Locations

30s

Check Frequency

6

Probe Types

150k

Free Check Runs / Month

## How it works

From configuration to incident response in three simple steps.

01

### Configure your checks

Set up HTTP, DNS, SSL, TCP, API, or Page Speed checks in seconds. Choose your probe locations, frequency, and alert rules.

02

### Probes run from Edge Hosts

Your checks execute from real residential connections worldwide — the same networks your users are on. Not from data centres.

03

### Get alerts & dashboards

Instant alerts via email, Slack, webhook, or PagerDuty. Real-time dashboards with uptime grids, response time charts, and incident timelines.

## Six probe types. One platform.

Monitor every layer of your stack from the networks your users are actually on.

### HTTP / HTTPS

Monitor URLs with GET/POST requests. Validate status codes, response times, and body content matches. As fast as every 30 seconds.

### DNS

Resolve domains from residential resolvers worldwide. Verify records match expected values and track propagation times.

### SSL Certificate

Track certificate validity, expiry dates, and chain completeness. Get warned before certificates expire — not after.

### TCP / UDP

Port connectivity checks from real user networks. Verify your services are reachable where your users actually are.

### API Workflow

Multi-step API monitoring: authenticate, make requests, validate responses. Test entire workflows, not just endpoints.

### Page Speed

Full page load timing from residential connections. Measure TTFB, DOM ready, and complete load — real-world performance.

## The real world advantage

Every competitor runs probes from data centres. We run them from the same residential and business connections that your users are on. That changes everything.

### Real residential networks

Probes run from home broadband connections on real ISPs — the same path your users take. Data centre probes miss ISP-level issues entirely.

### Catch what others miss

Residential IPs aren't on cloud provider allowlists. If a CDN is accidentally blocking residential traffic, Pulse catches it. Competitors can't.

### Real DNS resolution paths

Your users resolve DNS through residential resolvers, not cloud DNS. Pulse tests the same resolution path and catches propagation issues others miss.

### Genuine network conditions

Real-world latency, packet loss, and ISP routing — not the pristine connections between data centres. See true end-user performance.

## Smart incident detection

A single probe failure doesn't mean your site is down. Pulse confirms incidents across multiple locations before alerting you — eliminating false positives without sacrificing speed.

Probe fails from one location — immediately re-probed from 2 more hosts in the same region

2 of 3 probes fail in one region — confirmed regional failure

3+ regions report failure — global incident triggered

Alerts delivered in seconds via email, Slack, webhook, or PagerDuty

// Probe fails from London

→ Re-probing from 2 more London hosts...

✗ London host-2: timeout (3.2s)

✗ London host-3: 503 Service Unavailable

→ Confirmed failure in London. Checking other regions...

✗ Paris: 503 Service Unavailable

✗ Frankfurt: timeout (4.1s)

✓ New York: 200 OK (142ms)

✓ Tokyo: 200 OK (198ms)

⚠ Regional incident: EU regions affected

→ Alert sent to #ops-alerts (Slack)

→ Status page updated automatically

## Status pages, from free

Every competitor charges $29–79/month extra for status pages. With Pulse, a shared status page is free on every account, and a custom branded page on your own domain is just $2/month. Give your users a professional page they can trust.

Custom domain (status.yourdomain.com)
Branded with your logo and colours
Real-time uptime for each service
Full incident history with timeline
Email and RSS subscriptions
Powered by Edge CDN + DNS

status.yourapp.com
Website Operational
API Operational
Dashboard Degraded
CDN Operational

Last updated 12 seconds ago

## Stop guessing. Start monitoring.

See what your users see with monitoring from 2,000+ real residential locations. 150,000 free check runs every month — no credit card needed.

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