• string address — Required. IPv4 Address or FQDN
• string failover_mode — Required. Indicates the target failover resource type.
  Valid values:
  ip – failover to an IPv4 address
  cname – failover to a CNAME
• string failover_data — Required. The IPv4 Address or CNAME data for the failover target.
• string auto_recover — Indicates whether the service should restore its original state when the source IPs resume online status. Valid values:
  Y – The service should come out of failover automatically when IPs come back up.
  N – The service should stay in failover until a user explicitly takes the service out of failover.
• string notify_events — A comma separated list of what events trigger notifications.
  Valid values:
  ip – Send notifications when individual IPs change status.
  svc – Send notifications when the service state changes.
  nosrv – Send notifications when an IP labeled ‘Do Not serve’ changes status.
• string recovery_delay — The number of consecutive monitoring intervals to delay before placing an IP address back in service. Defaults to 0.
• string syslog_server — The Hostname or IP address of a server to receive syslog notifications on monitoring events.
• string syslog_port — The port where the remote syslog server listens. Defaults to 514.
• string syslog_ident — The ident to use when sending syslog notifications. Defaults to dynect.
• string syslog_facility — The syslog facility to use when sending syslog notifications. Defaults to daemon.
  Valid values: kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron, authpriv, ftp, ntp, security, console, local0, local1, local2, local3, local4, local5, local6, local7
• string syslog_delivery – Identifies when ‘health probe’ messages are logged through syslog.
  Valid Values:
  change – When the service’s status changes. (default)
  all – At every monitoring interval.
• string syslog_probe_fmt — The customizable string for probe notifications’ syslog message format. The messages will replace the %xxx variables with the data required. Default: %hos probe %tim: %sit %sta %rti “%msg” %adr.
  Valid values:
  %hos – hostname
  %tim – current timestamp or monitored interval
  %reg – region code
  %sta – status
  %ser – record serial
  %rda – rdata
  %sit – monitoring site
  %rti – response time
  %msg – message from monitoring
  %adr – address of monitored node
  %med – median value
• string syslog_status_fmt — The customizable string for status notifications’ syslog message format. The messages will replace the %xxx variables with the data required. Default: %hos status %tim: %reg %sta %ser %rda.
  Valid values:
  %hos – hostname
  %tim – current timestamp or monitored interval
  %reg – region code
  %sta – status
  %ser – record serial
  %rda – rdata
  %sit – monitoring site
  %rti – response time
  %msg – message from monitoring
  %adr – address of monitored node
  %med – median value
• hash monitor — Required. The health monitor for the service
  • string protocol — Required. The protocol to monitor.
    Valid values: HTTP, HTTPS, PING, SMTP, TCP
  • string interval — Required. How often to run the monitor.
    Valid values:
    1 – Every minute
    5 – Every 5 minutes
    10 – Every 10 minutes
    15 – Every 15 minutes
  • string retries — The number of retries the monitor attempts on failure before giving up.
  • string timeout — The amount of time in seconds before the connection attempt times out.
  • string port — For HTTP(S)/SMTP/TCP probes, an alternate connection port.
  • string path — For HTTP(S) probes, a specific path to request.
  • string host — For HTTP(S) probes, a value to pass in to the Host: header.
  • string header — For HTTP(S) probes, additional header fields/values to pass in, separated by the newline character (\n).
  • string expected — For HTTP(S) probes, a string to search for in the response. For SMTP probes, a string to compare the banner against. Failure to find this string means the monitor will report a down status.
• string contact_nickname — Required. Name of contact to receive notifications.
• string ttl — Time To Live in seconds of records in the service. Must be less than 1/2 of the Health Probe’s monitoring interval.
  Valid values: 30, 60, 150, 300, 450

• integer task_id – The number assigned to the task to create an active failover instance.
• string active — Indicates if the service is active.
  Valid values:
  Y — The service is active.
  N — The service is inactive
• string status — The current state of the service.
  Valid values:
  unk – The service state is not yet known.
  ok – There are no problems with the service.
  trouble – One or more node_ips are reporting down.
  failover – The number of okay node_ips has fallen below failover_count. The service has failed over.
• string address — IPv4 Address or FQDN
• string failover_mode — Indicates the target failover resource type.
  Valid values:
  ip – Failover to an IPv4 address
  cname – Failover to a CNAME
• string failover_data — The IPv4 Address or CNAME data for the failover target.
• string auto_recover — Indicates whether the service should restore its original state when the source IPs resume online status. Valid values:
  Y – The service should come out of failover automatically when IPs come back up.
  N – The service should stay in failover until a user explicitly takes the service out of failover.
• string notify_events — A comma separated list of what events trigger notifications.
  Valid values:
  ip – Send notifications when individual IPs change status.
  svc – Send notifications when the service state changes.
  nosrv – Send notifications when an IP labeled ‘Do Not serve’ changes status.
• string recovery_delay — The number of consecutive monitoring intervals to delay before placing an IP address back in service. Defaults to 0.
• string syslog_server — The Hostname or IP address of a server to receive syslog notifications on monitoring events.
• string syslog_port — The port where the remote syslog server listens. Defaults to 514.
• string syslog_ident — The ident to use when sending syslog notifications. Defaults to dynect.
• string syslog_facility — The syslog facility to use when sending syslog notifications. Defaults to daemon.
  Valid values: kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron, auth, priv, ftp, ntp, security, console, local0, local1, local2, local3, local4, local5, local6, local7
• string syslog_delivery – Identifies when ‘health probe’ messages are logged through syslog.
  Valid Values:
  change – When the service’s status changes. (default)
  all – At every monitoring interval.
• string syslog_probe_fmt — The customizable string for probe notifications’ syslog message format. The messages will replace the %xxx variables with the data required. Default: %hos probe %tim: %sit %sta %rti “%msg” %adr.
  Valid values:
  %hos – hostname
  %tim – current timestamp or monitored interval
  %reg – region code
  %sta – status
  %ser – record serial
  %rda – rdata
  %sit – monitoring site
  %rti – response time
  %msg – message from monitoring
  %adr – address of monitored node
  %med – median value
• string syslog_status_fmt — The customizable string for status notifications’ syslog message format. The messages will replace the %xxx variables with the data required. Default: %hos status %tim: %reg %sta %ser %rda.
  Valid values:
  %hos – hostname
  %tim – current timestamp or monitored interval
  %reg – region code
  %sta – status
  %ser – record serial
  %rda – rdata
  %sit – monitoring site
  %rti – response time
  %msg – message from monitoring
  %adr – address of monitored node
  %med – median value
• hash monitor — The health monitor for the service.
  • string protocol — The protocol to monitor.
    Valid values: HTTP, HTTPS, PING, SMTP, TCP
  • string interval — How often to run the monitor.
    Valid values:
    1 – Every minute
    5 – Every 5 minutes
    10 – Every 10 minutes
    15 – Every 15 minutes
  • string retries — The number of retries the monitor attempts on failure before giving up.
  • string timeout — The amount of time in seconds before the connection attempt times out.
  • string port — For HTTP(S)/SMTP/TCP probes, an alternate connection port.
  • string path — For HTTP(S) probes, a specific path to request.
  • string host — For HTTP(S) probes, a value to pass in to the Host: header.
  • string header — For HTTP(S) probes, additional header fields/values to pass in, separated by the newline character (\n).
  • string expected — For HTTP(S) probes, a string to search for in the response. For SMTP probes, a string to compare the banner against. Failure to find this string means the monitor will report a down status.
• string contact_nickname — Name of contact to receive notifications.
• string fqdn — Fully qualified domain name of a node in the zone.
• string ttl — Time To Live in seconds of records in the service. Must be less than 1/2 of the Health Probe’s monitoring interval. Valid values: 30, 60, 150, 300, 450
• string zone — Name of the zone.
• array log — Recent monitoring logs for the address
  • string status — The state of the address at the time of the log entry.
    Valid values:
    unk – The state of the IP address is not yet known
    up – The IP address is up
    down – The IP address is down
  • string message — If status is down, an error message explaining the failure.
  • string time — The time or probe interval when this log entry was generated.
  • string site_code — The airport code of the monitoring site that generated this log entry.

• string address — Required. IPv4 Address or FQDN.
• string failover_mode — Required. Indicates the target failover resource type.
  Valid values:
  ip – failover to an IPv4 address
  cname – failover to a CNAME
• string failover_data — Required. The IPv4 Address or CNAME data for the failover target.
• string auto_recover — Indicates whether the service should restore its original state when the source IPs resume online status. Valid values:
  Y – The service should come out of failover automatically when IPs come back up.
  N – The service should stay in failover until a user explicitly takes the service out of failover.
• string notify_events — A comma separated list of what events trigger notifications.
  Valid values:
  ip – Send notifications when individual IPs change status.
  svc – Send notifications when the service state changes.
  nosrv – Send notifications when an IP labeled ‘Do Not serve’ changes status.
• string recovery_delay — The number of consecutive monitoring intervals to delay before placing an IP address back in service. Defaults to 0.
• string syslog_server — The Hostname or IP address of a server to receive syslog notifications on monitoring events.
• string syslog_port — The port where the remote syslog server listens. Defaults to 514.
• string syslog_ident — The ident to use when sending syslog notifications. Defaults to dynect.
• string syslog_facility — The syslog facility to use when sending syslog notifications. Defaults to daemon.
  Valid values: kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron, authpriv, ftp, ntp, security, console, local0, local1, local2, local3, local4, local5, local6, local7
• string syslog_delivery – Identifies when ‘health probe’ messages are logged through syslog.
  Valid Values:
  change – When the service’s status changes. (default)
  all – At every monitoring interval.
• string syslog_probe_fmt — The customizable string for probe notifications’ syslog message format. The messages will replace the %xxx variables with the data required. Default: %hos probe %tim: %sit %sta %rti “%msg” %adr.
  Valid values:
  %hos – hostname
  %tim – current timestamp or monitored interval
  %reg – region code
  %sta – status
  %ser – record serial
  %rda – rdata
  %sit – monitoring site
  %rti – response time
  %msg – message from monitoring
  %adr – address of monitored node
  %med – median value
• string syslog_status_fmt — The customizable string for status notifications’ syslog message format. The messages will replace the %xxx variables with the data required. Default: %hos status %tim: %reg %sta %ser %rda.
  Valid values:
  %hos – hostname
  %tim – current timestamp or monitored interval
  %reg – region code
  %sta – status
  %ser – record serial
  %rda – rdata
  %sit – monitoring site
  %rti – response time
  %msg – message from monitoring
  %adr – address of monitored node
  %med – median value
• hash monitor — Required. The health monitor for the service.
  • string protocol — Required. The protocol to monitor.
    Valid values: HTTP, HTTPS, PING, SMTP, TCP
  • string interval — Required. How often to run the monitor.
    Valid values:
    1 – Every minute
    5 – Every 5 minutes
    10 – Every 10 minutes
    15 – Every 15 minutes
  • string retries — The number of retries the monitor attempts on failure before giving up.
  • string timeout — The amount of time in seconds before the connection attempt times out.
  • string port — For HTTP(S)/SMTP/TCP probes, an alternate connection port.
  • string path — For HTTP(S) probes, a specific path to request.
  • string host — For HTTP(S) probes, a value to pass in to the Host: header.
  • string header — For HTTP(S) probes, additional header fields/values to pass in, separated by the newline character (\n).
  • string expected — For HTTP(S) probes, a string to search for in the response. For SMTP probes, a string to compare the banner against. Failure to find this string means the monitor will report a down status.
• string contact_nickname — Required. Name of contact to receive notifications.
• string fqdn — Required. Name of the node where the service will exist.
• string ttl — Time To Live in seconds of records in the service. Must be less than 1/2 of the Health Probe’s monitoring interval.
  Valid values: 30, 60, 150, 300, 450
• string token — Required. The session identifier.
• string zone — Required. Name of the zone where the service will exist.

• integer task_id – The number assigned to the task to create an active failover instance.
• hash data
  • string active — Indicates if the service is active.
    Valid values:
    Y — The service is active.
    N — The service is inactive
  • string status — The current state of the service.
    Valid values:
    unk – The service state is not yet known.
    ok – There are no problems with the service.
    trouble – One or more node_ips are reporting down.
    failover – The number of okay node_ips has fallen below failover_count. The service has failed over.
  • string address — IPv4 Address or FQDN
  • string failover_mode — Indicates the target failover resource type.
    Valid values:
    ip – Failover to an IPv4 address
    cname – Failover to a CNAME
  • string failover_data — The IPv4 Address or CNAME data for the failover target.
  • string auto_recover — Indicates whether the service should restore its original state when the source IPs resume online status. Valid values:
    Y – The service should come out of failover automatically when IPs come back up.
    N – The service should stay in failover until a user explicitly takes the service out of failover.
  • string notify_events — A comma separated list of what events trigger notifications.
    Valid values:
    ip – Send notifications when individual IPs change status.
    svc – Send notifications when the service state changes.
    nosrv – Send notifications when an IP labeled ‘Do Not serve’ changes status.
  • string recovery_delay — The number of consecutive monitoring intervals to delay before placing an IP address back in service. Defaults to 0.
  • string syslog_server — The Hostname or IP address of a server to receive syslog notifications on monitoring events.
  • string syslog_port — The port where the remote syslog server listens. Defaults to 514.
  • string syslog_ident — The ident to use when sending syslog notifications. Defaults to dynect.
  • string syslog_facility — The syslog facility to use when sending syslog notifications. Defaults to daemon.
    Valid values: kern, user, mail, daemon, auth, syslog, lpr, news, uucp, cron, auth, priv, ftp, ntp, security, console, local0, local1, local2, local3, local4, local5, local6, local7
  • string syslog_delivery – Identifies when ‘health probe’ messages are logged through syslog.
    Valid Values:
    change – When the service’s status changes. (default)
    all – At every monitoring interval.
  • string syslog_probe_fmt — The customizable string for probe notifications’ syslog message format. The messages will replace the %xxx variables with the data required. Default: %hos probe %tim: %sit %sta %rti “%msg” %adr.
    Valid values:
    %hos – hostname
    %tim – current timestamp or monitored interval
    %reg – region code
    %sta – status
    %ser – record serial
    %rda – rdata
    %sit – monitoring site
    %rti – response time
    %msg – message from monitoring
    %adr – address of monitored node
    %med – median value
  • string syslog_status_fmt — The customizable string for status notifications’ syslog message format. The messages will replace the %xxx variables with the data required. Default: %hos status %tim: %reg %sta %ser %rda.
    Valid values:
    %hos – hostname
    %tim – current timestamp or monitored interval
    %reg – region code
    %sta – status
    %ser – record serial
    %rda – rdata
    %sit – monitoring site
    %rti – response time
    %msg – message from monitoring
    %adr – address of monitored node
    %med – median value
  • hash monitor — The health monitor for the service.
    • string protocol — The protocol to monitor.
      Valid values: HTTP, HTTPS, PING, SMTP, TCP
    • string interval — How often to run the monitor.
      Valid values:
      1 – Every minute
      5 – Every 5 minutes
      10 – Every 10 minutes
      15 – Every 15 minutes
    • string retries — The number of retries the monitor attempts on failure before giving up.
    • string timeout — The amount of time in seconds before the connection attempt times out.
    • string port — For HTTP(S)/SMTP/TCP probes, an alternate connection port.
    • string path — For HTTP(S) probes, a specific path to request.
    • string host — For HTTP(S) probes, a value to pass in to the Host: header.
    • string header — For HTTP(S) probes, additional header fields/values to pass in, separated by the newline character (\n).
    • string expected — For HTTP(S) probes, a string to search for in the response. For SMTP probes, a string to compare the banner against. Failure to find this string means the monitor will report a down status.
  • string contact_nickname — Name of contact to receive notifications.
  • string fqdn — Fully qualified domain name of a node in the zone.
  • string ttl — Time To Live in seconds of records in the service. Must be less than 1/2 of the Health Probe’s monitoring interval. Valid values: 30, 60, 150, 300, 450
  • string zone — Name of the zone.
  • array log — Recent monitoring logs for the address
    • string status — The state of the address at the time of the log entry.
      Valid values:
      unk – The state of the IP address is not yet known
      up – The IP address is up
      down – The IP address is down
    • string message — If status is down, an error message explaining the failure.
    • string time — The time or probe interval when this log entry was generated.
    • string site_code — The airport code of the monitoring site that generated this log entry.

{
	'fqdn' => 'www.example.com',
	'address' => '1.2.3.4',
	'failover_mode' => 'ip',
	'failover_data' => '5.5.5.5',
	'auto_recover' => 'Y',
	'contact_nickname' => 'owner',
	'notify_events' => 'ip,svc',
	'monitor' => {
		'protocol' => 'HTTP',
		'interval' => 1,
	},
	'token' => 'asdlkfjasl23j4879afa',
	'ttl' => '3600',
	'zone' => 'example.com',
}