Guides

Practical documentation for getting the most out of thump — recipes, integrations, and security how-tos. The interactive API reference lives at /docs.

Monitoring guide

Practical recipes for monitors that catch real failures — REST APIs, third-party dependencies, heartbeats, SSL, and the assertion mental model.

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Webhook signing

Verify X-Thump-Signature HMAC signatures on alert webhooks, with copy-paste examples for Node, Python, and Go.

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Deploy gate (GitHub Action)

Gate deploys and merges in CI on a thump monitor being healthy from every region, using the thump-check GitHub Action.

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CLI

The thump command-line client: check status, force-run probes, and list incidents from the terminal — with JSON output and CI-friendly exit codes.

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Private-network monitoring

Monitor endpoints behind your VPN or firewall with the thump agent — outbound-only heartbeat pings, dead-man’s-switch semantics, no inbound ports.

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On-call rotations

Route alerts to whoever is on call right now — rotations with automatic handoffs, one-off overrides, escalation to the next responder, and SMS/voice paging.

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Self-hosting

Run thump on your own Cloudflare account — resource provisioning, secrets, first deploy, CI/CD, and upgrades. Free plan except real-browser checks.

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