Question: On the Starter plan, is the following statement correct? Regardless of whether a macro or profile is applied in the cloud monitor, or if the request is made without using a macro or profile, the program will only deduct one check per request. As an example in my case: for a cloud monitor with a macro consisting of four steps and executing in under 7 seconds, 5 checks are being deducted, while for a monitor with a profile, 2 checks are deducted. Is this correct? Thanks
the number of checks consumed in a specific run is determined by the total time taken. there are multiple factors that affect how much time is taken for a check. some of them are:
- the checks from servers do not cache resources. so it has to fetch all resources every time the page is loaded. it can be slower compared to loading cached pages in our local browser.
- cloud uses proxies. they can add additional latency.
- we recently added automatic content validators that ensures that the page being monitored has loaded correctly. this prevents false positives for monitors running in the cloud.
4.each step in the macro add more time too.
there could be other factors that i have not considered. but it is not uncommon for monitors with macro taking 50-100 seconds depending on what the steps are.
hope this helps understand why the time taken can be more in cloud. feel free to let me know if you have any questions. cheers!
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