What are Postman Monitors and how do they work?

Postman Monitors are scheduled, automated collection runs that check the health and performance of your APIs at regular intervals.

1. ✓You define a collection with test scripts
2. ✓A Monitor is attached to that collection
3. ✓Postman runs the collection on a schedule (every 5 mins, hourly, daily, etc.)
4. ✓If any tests fail, Postman sends email alerts
5. ✓You can view history, response times, and trends in the Monitors dashboard

1. ✓Click Monitors in the Postman sidebar
2. ✓Click + → Create a Monitor
3. ✓Configure:
   • ✓Collection to run
   • ✓Environment to use
   • ✓Frequency: 5 minutes / hourly / daily / weekly
   • ✓Region: Select server location for testing
   • ✓Email notifications: Get alerts on failure
4. ✓Click Create Monitor

View per-run results:

• ✓✅ Pass rate per collection run
• ✓⏱ Response times over time (trend graph)
• ✓📧 Failure notification history
• ✓🌍 Performance by region

API Health Monitoring

// Test that critical endpoints are UP
pm.test("API is healthy", function () {
    pm.response.to.have.status(200);
    pm.expect(pm.response.responseTime).to.be.below(2000);
});

SLA Monitoring

pm.test("Response time under SLA (1 second)", function () {
    pm.expect(pm.response.responseTime).to.be.below(1000);
});

Business Workflow Monitoring

Run a full login → search → checkout flow every 15 minutes to detect regressions.

• ✓1,000 monitoring calls/month
• ✓5-minute minimum frequency

• ✓More monitoring calls
• ✓Shorter intervals (every 1 minute)
• ✓Custom regions
• ✓Slack/PagerDuty integrations