All configured monitors are stored in the monitors table in the database. The various monitor commands manipulate the data that table:
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monitor:create adds a row
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monitor:delete deletes a row
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monitor:enable and monitor:disable change the value of the enabled field
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monitor:list lists all rows
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monitor:sync-file syncs monitors from a json file (see syncing monitors from a file)
You can also manually manipulate the table rows instead. Here's a description of the fields you can manipulate:
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url: the url to perform uptime and ssl certificate checks on. Take care not to insert duplicate values.
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uptime_check_enabled: determines if the uptime check should be performed for this monitor.
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certificate_check_enabled: determines if the ssl certificate check should be performed for this monitor.
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look_for_string: if this string is not found in the response the uptime check will fail. You may set this to an empty string to disable the check.
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uptime_check_interval_in_minutes: if the uptime check was successful that site won't be checked again for at least this number of minutes. When a monitor is created this field is filled with the value of uptime_check_interval_in_minutes in the config file.
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uptime_check_method: the http method used by the uptime check. If look_for_string is specified when creating the monitor this will be set to get, otherwise this will be head.
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uptime_check_payload: a payload that will be sent as the monitor request body. If you are using this field, you should set the Content-Type header in the uptime_check_additional_headers field.
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uptime_check_additional_headers: additional headers that are sent in the request. The value shoule be escaped JSON. It will be decoded using json_decode. Example: {"Content-Type":"application\/json"}
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uptime_check_response_checker: the fully qualified class name of a custom response checker that will be used only for this monitor. It must be an implementation of Spatie\UptimeMonitor\Helpers\UptimeResponseCheckers\UptimeResponseChecker and will be resolved using the service container.
All other fields in the monitors table are managed by the package and should not be manually modified.