Let a deployment leave monitoring ready
A new service is deployed, its URL is added to a release note, and someone still needs to create its monitor. That final manual step is easy to miss when several environments or customer sites change at once.
PageLantern’s scoped monitor integration API lets your automation create and manage monitoring as part of the workflow. A useful starting pattern is to create a paused HTTP monitor, inspect its settings, then resume it when the service and alert destinations are ready.
Give each job the access it needs
Integration keys use separate monitors:read, monitors:write and monitors:run scopes. A reporting job can read monitoring data without being able to change monitors. A deployment workflow can receive the write permission it needs, while on-demand checks require their own run permission.
The Integrations dialog creates a read-only key. For write or run access, an owner or admin uses the documented key-creation API with explicit scopes. Send the key in the X-API-Key header to the monitor integration endpoints. Keep it in your automation’s secret storage; workspace and scope checks apply on the server.
Use explicit monitor operations
The API supports monitor reads, creation, full updates, pause, resume and eligible manual runs. Creating a monitor returns the created resource and its identifier, so the workflow can retain that ID instead of depending on a display name.
Use pause and resume when you only need to change scheduling. A PUT update replaces the monitor configuration through a full request; it is not a partial patch. Read the current configuration and preserve required settings before making an update.
Build the first workflow from the reference
Open the API reference and expand the endpoint you need. Review its authentication, required scope, request fields and response, then adapt the example to a target you control. Start with a paused HTTP monitor and verify the returned configuration before enabling scheduled checks.
Existing plan limits still apply. An interval that is valid JSON can still be too frequent for your plan. Handle the response rather than assuming a successful deployment means its monitoring configuration was accepted.
Treat retries and API boundaries carefully
Monitor API keys do not authenticate every workspace endpoint. The reference distinguishes the scoped integration API from session-authenticated operations; page-speed runs, for example, use a separate asynchronous session API.
Honor rate-limit responses and Retry-After when provided. After an uncertain create or run response, inspect state before retrying: a blind retry can repeat an action. The reference documents the dedicated page-speed manual-run endpoint’s idempotency support; do not assume that behavior applies to other endpoints.