# Set Up Uptime Monitoring with Dynatrace Synthetic and Availability Checks

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/set-up-uptime-monitoring-with-dynatrace-synthetic-and-availability-checks/35465>\
**Category:** Open Q&A\
**Tags:** dynatrace-managed, hosts-classic\
**Created:** [June 13, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/set-up-uptime-monitoring-with-dynatrace-synthetic-and-availability-checks/35465 "2022-06-13T17:55:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![ssamraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@ssamraj](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ssamraj)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/set-up-uptime-monitoring-with-dynatrace-synthetic-and-availability-checks/35465/1 "2022-06-13T17:55:56Z")

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_Summary:&nbsp;This thread explains how to configure Dynatrace synthetic monitor-based uptime monitoring. It describes alerting setup and best practices for tracking service availability._

Hi Team,

Is it feasible to monitor system uptime on Windows servers using DT?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![dannemca](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/dannemca/32/7215_2.png) [@dannemca](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/dannemca)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/set-up-uptime-monitoring-with-dynatrace-synthetic-and-availability-checks/35465/2 "2022-06-13T21:03:51Z")

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Unfortunately, no.

You can rely on these others topics for reference:

[https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Dashboarding/Is-there-anyway-to-chart-uptime-of-a-server-in-Dynatrace/m-p/121549#M1201](https://community.dynatrace.com/post/121549#M1201)

[https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Synthetic-Monitoring/Setting-up-uptime-monitoring/m-p/20987#M1122](https://community.dynatrace.com/post/20987#M1122)

You can use some [custom metric ingestion](https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/shortlink/local-api) to make it happen as well.

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**Author:** ![ssamraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@ssamraj](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ssamraj)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 11:44am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/set-up-uptime-monitoring-with-dynatrace-synthetic-and-availability-checks/35465/3 "2023-07-06T11:44:31Z")

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Looks like from the version 1.263, we’re able to get this metrics “uptime” on all servers (AIX, Windows and Linux)… no need to take the complex route of implementing this monitor..

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**Author:** ![dannemca](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/dannemca/32/7215_2.png) [@dannemca](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/dannemca)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/set-up-uptime-monitoring-with-dynatrace-synthetic-and-availability-checks/35465/4 "2023-07-06T20:44:02Z")

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Yep, the builtin:host.uptime. [Built-in classic metrics — Dynatrace Docs](https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/observe-and-explore/metrics/built-in-metrics#other-infrastructure-metrics)