# \#monitors

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## [Finding Monitors in the new Postman UI](https://community.postman.com/t/finding-monitors-in-the-new-postman-ui/88957)

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**Author:** [@joubertjc1](https://community.postman.com/u/joubertjc1)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2026, 11:39am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/finding-monitors-in-the-new-postman-ui/88957 "2026-03-02T11:39:32Z")

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I recently got updated to the new UI and having trouble finding the Monitors view where my current daily monitors are and having the same issue via the web system. I also tried asking the AI assistant for guidence here a…

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## [Get error on Monitor while all tests are passing](https://community.postman.com/t/get-error-on-monitor-while-all-tests-are-passing/87188)

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**Author:** [@matantubul](https://community.postman.com/u/matantubul)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [December 3, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/get-error-on-monitor-while-all-tests-are-passing/87188 "2025-12-03T13:45:08Z")

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Hi Recently i added Monitor to one of our collections and i see in some cases i am getting error on the report while all the tests are passing. what i am missing? Thanks

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## [Running of a collection to test API’s from IBM i](https://community.postman.com/t/running-of-a-collection-to-test-api-s-from-ibm-i/86843)

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**Author:** [@orbital-module-cand7](https://community.postman.com/u/orbital-module-cand7)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/running-of-a-collection-to-test-api-s-from-ibm-i/86843 "2025-11-18T21:06:36Z")

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Folks: I’m looking for some guidance regarding automating the running of a collection to test API’s. Under normal circumstances, I’d install the postman cli and invoke the API’s that way. The problem is, I want to tri…

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## [Monitoring with Internal integration with Slack: Constantly alerting although tests are green](https://community.postman.com/t/monitoring-with-internal-integration-with-slack-constantly-alerting-although-tests-are-green/85480)

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**Author:** [@ixus](https://community.postman.com/u/ixus)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2025, 9:46am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/monitoring-with-internal-integration-with-slack-constantly-alerting-although-tests-are-green/85480 "2025-10-14T09:46:53Z")

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Hello here, several hours ago our monitor starts to alert via the internal integration with Slack each successfully passed tests scope. Although integration settings were not changed and are the following (attached). …

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## [Saving a flow to a collection to run a monitor scheduled daily task to execute the flow](https://community.postman.com/t/saving-a-flow-to-a-collection-to-run-a-monitor-scheduled-daily-task-to-execute-the-flow/75787)

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**Author:** [@spaceflight-engine10](https://community.postman.com/u/spaceflight-engine10)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/saving-a-flow-to-a-collection-to-run-a-monitor-scheduled-daily-task-to-execute-the-flow/75787 "2025-10-10T08:30:07Z")

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Hello everyone, I am new with postman, I have created a flow that I would like to schedule a monitor for it to run my flow daily. I been reading to accomplish scheduling a flow is to use a webhook which I see has been de…

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## [🌱 Virtual Plant Care](https://community.postman.com/t/virtual-plant-care/78852)

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**Author:** [@niraaaliii](https://community.postman.com/u/niraaaliii)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/virtual-plant-care/78852 "2025-04-18T20:38:54Z")

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Hi I am Nirali - :seedling: Virtual Plant Care :herb: is a fun, interactive project I created to teach myself the ins and outs of Postman through playful experimentation. By treating API workflows as if they were garde…

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## [Slack integration to notify for 3 failures and then first success](https://community.postman.com/t/slack-integration-to-notify-for-3-failures-and-then-first-success/11673)

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**Author:** [@alastair.macfarlane](https://community.postman.com/u/alastair.macfarlane)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/slack-integration-to-notify-for-3-failures-and-then-first-success/11673 "2020-04-01T22:04:53Z")

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Question: How can I set up Postman monitor with Slack integrations to notify only for failures and then first success? I had this configured in the past, but lost it recently when a collection was accidentally deleted.…

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## [Daily monitor summary distribution](https://community.postman.com/t/daily-monitor-summary-distribution/73787)

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**Author:** [@andrewwiester](https://community.postman.com/u/andrewwiester)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 14, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/daily-monitor-summary-distribution/73787 "2025-01-14T19:19:43Z")

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I have looked in the Monitor documentation and could not find anything specific. When monitors are set up who exactly is the recipient of the ‘Your daily monitor summary for {date range}?’ Is it anyone with a license (…

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## [🚀 API Monitoring Incident Management](https://community.postman.com/t/api-monitoring-incident-management/72519)

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**Author:** [@gladwingt](https://community.postman.com/u/gladwingt)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 14, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/api-monitoring-incident-management/72519 "2024-12-14T18:43:12Z")

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:glowing\_star: A Step Toward Integrated Incident Management Postman Monitors do a great job of alerting you to issues, but they stop short of helping manage incidents. That’s where I’ve been experimenting with Postman F…

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## [Unable to delete Monitor](https://community.postman.com/t/unable-to-delete-monitor/71392)

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**Author:** [@stuartmillsamtek](https://community.postman.com/u/stuartmillsamtek)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 20, 2024, 6:05am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/unable-to-delete-monitor/71392 "2024-11-20T06:05:22Z")

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I had previously set up a monitor on the account to perform a regular test of a webhook at 12 hour intervals. I am unable to disable the Monitor / delete the monitor. See screenshot of the error when trying to delete. …

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## [monitors and postman vault ?](https://community.postman.com/t/monitors-and-postman-vault/67973)

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**Author:** [@sgeindre](https://community.postman.com/u/sgeindre)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2024, 7:15am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/monitors-and-postman-vault/67973 "2024-10-10T07:15:35Z")

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Hi all, Monitors use initial values. Initial values are secured in postman cloud. But is it possible to store these values in our cloud, in internal vault ? Thx

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## [Monitor calls failing](https://community.postman.com/t/monitor-calls-failing/69151)

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**Author:** [@supply-cosmologist-3](https://community.postman.com/u/supply-cosmologist-3)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 2, 2024, 10:32am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/monitor-calls-failing/69151 "2024-10-02T10:32:42Z")

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I have a simple collection with 2 POST calls that just check the response is 200. They work fine on their own and also work from the collection runner. However when I create a monitor from the collection both calls are r…

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## [How to run a monitor with the Postman API](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-run-a-monitor-with-the-postman-api/68976)

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**Author:** [@david-espi-hernandez](https://community.postman.com/u/david-espi-hernandez)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 27, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/how-to-run-a-monitor-with-the-postman-api/68976 "2024-09-27T13:44:59Z")

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Postman Monitors provide continuous visibility into the health and performance of your APIs. Collection-based monitors let you run API test scripts, chain together multiple requests, and validate critical API flows. Wit…

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## [Postman monitor vs collection runs](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-monitor-vs-collection-runs/68746)

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**Author:** [@gautamcim](https://community.postman.com/u/gautamcim)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 9:01am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-monitor-vs-collection-runs/68746 "2024-09-23T09:01:23Z")

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Hey postman , i am trying out Monitor in postman. but i want to know how is it different then just simply running your collection in postman? why create a monitor if postman collection run does the same thing?

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## [Reporting historic failures to highlight flakiest tests](https://community.postman.com/t/reporting-historic-failures-to-highlight-flakiest-tests/62051)

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**Author:** [@sandylyons](https://community.postman.com/u/sandylyons)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 2, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/reporting-historic-failures-to-highlight-flakiest-tests/62051 "2024-07-02T12:38:13Z")

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Is it possible to report on failed tests over time? I haven’t been able to find a way. I want to see which specific tests in our monitors fail the most frequently, so we can prioritise the tests to focus maintenance eff…

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## [Postman monitoring support client certificate auth in cloud](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-monitoring-support-client-certificate-auth-in-cloud/60635)

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**Author:** [@xs2bharat](https://community.postman.com/u/xs2bharat)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 3, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-monitoring-support-client-certificate-auth-in-cloud/60635 "2024-05-03T17:25:02Z")

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Does postman monitoring supports client certificate auth in cloud agents ?

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## [Rogue monitors running](https://community.postman.com/t/rogue-monitors-running/61157)

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**Author:** [@lifalck](https://community.postman.com/u/lifalck)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 17, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/rogue-monitors-running/61157 "2024-05-17T07:56:06Z")

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Hi, Somebody left our team and we removed them from the Master Workspace. This person had set up two monitors, which vanished when we removed them and were not visible in the list of monitors anymore (neither in the des…

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## [Using pre-script in postman monitoring](https://community.postman.com/t/using-pre-script-in-postman-monitoring/60621)

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**Author:** [@descent-module-geo31](https://community.postman.com/u/descent-module-geo31)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 3, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/using-pre-script-in-postman-monitoring/60621 "2024-05-03T14:03:42Z")

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I have created a collection with 4 APIs. That collection is being used for monitoring purposes. Due to certain scheduled tasks between 3 am to 4 am EST, the API calls timeout. I tried using pre-script to skip request du…

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## [Increasing the 15 minute time limit on scheduled runs](https://community.postman.com/t/increasing-the-15-minute-time-limit-on-scheduled-runs/58116)

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**Author:** [@descent-module-tech1](https://community.postman.com/u/descent-module-tech1)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 28, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/increasing-the-15-minute-time-limit-on-scheduled-runs/58116 "2024-02-28T17:06:54Z")

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We have a large collection set that takes a long time to run (around 3 hours). We would like to run this every day using a scheduled run. However, the runs seem to end prematurely with an error: “Error: callback timed ou…

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## [Monitor - 502 shown in GREEN and do not send notifications](https://community.postman.com/t/monitor-502-shown-in-green-and-do-not-send-notifications/56566)

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**Author:** [@telecoms-candidate12](https://community.postman.com/u/telecoms-candidate12)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 16, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/monitor-502-shown-in-green-and-do-not-send-notifications/56566 "2024-01-16T14:16:17Z")

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Hi, I have a monitor running, and I got a 502 (bad gateway), but It shows the running in green and does not send notification emails. What can I do? Thanks

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## [Monitor response time discrepancy](https://community.postman.com/t/monitor-response-time-discrepancy/55643)

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**Author:** [@ramofficial1](https://community.postman.com/u/ramofficial1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 22, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/monitor-response-time-discrepancy/55643 "2023-12-22T23:15:13Z")

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I have setup monitors to check the health of the environment. After the scheduled monitor is run I am observing discrepancy in the monitor response time in the graph to the response time displayed for the request. Hence …

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## [Monitors JSONError: Unexpected token u in JSON at position 0](https://community.postman.com/t/monitors-jsonerror-unexpected-token-u-in-json-at-position-0/18155)

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**Author:** [@Chandana](https://community.postman.com/u/Chandana)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [December 21, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/monitors-jsonerror-unexpected-token-u-in-json-at-position-0/18155 "2023-12-21T05:06:26Z")

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Getting this error twice in the monitor. What would initiate this error?

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## [PostMan Monitors not working for Private API's](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-monitors-not-working-for-private-apis/54820)

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**Author:** [@msugumar-infosys](https://community.postman.com/u/msugumar-infosys)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-monitors-not-working-for-private-apis/54820 "2023-11-20T21:58:09Z")

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Hi Team, Can some one help me on how to overcome the issue when trying Postman Monitors. All my API’s are private API’s accessible only within the organization. When i try to setup a Monitor to my postman collection, …

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## [\[Video\] Explained important concepts in interview format](https://community.postman.com/t/video-explained-important-concepts-in-interview-format/51825)

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**Author:** [@telecoms-architect-4](https://community.postman.com/u/telecoms-architect-4)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 14, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/video-explained-important-concepts-in-interview-format/51825 "2023-09-14T23:33:14Z")

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Hello All, I have prepared a video series explaining important postman topics in interview style format. I hope this video will help you understand power of postman upto some extend. This is my first vid…

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## [Capture the response body values as variables](https://community.postman.com/t/capture-the-response-body-values-as-variables/51667)

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**Author:** [@spacecraft-engineer2](https://community.postman.com/u/spacecraft-engineer2)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [September 14, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/capture-the-response-body-values-as-variables/51667 "2023-09-14T19:22:20Z")

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Hello! For the purpose of executing a number of scenarios. In the POSTMAN service, you need to perform certain queries. After receiving a response from the end server. For each request, in the body of the response, its …

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## [\[Video\] How to monitor API using Postman Monitors](https://community.postman.com/t/video-how-to-monitor-api-using-postman-monitors/51518)

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**Author:** [@telecoms-architect-4](https://community.postman.com/u/telecoms-architect-4)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/video-how-to-monitor-api-using-postman-monitors/51518 "2023-09-07T23:55:30Z")

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Hi All, I have created this video explaining hot to monitor APIs using postman. Hope this helps

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## [Postman monitors report generation](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-monitors-report-generation/49879)

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**Author:** [@sunil0102](https://community.postman.com/u/sunil0102)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 25, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-monitors-report-generation/49879 "2023-07-25T14:03:55Z")

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Hi Team, I have a requirement to download the past 90 days postman monitor report. I have 10 requests in a collection and I would like to get the average response time of each request in a day. My monitor runs every hou…

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## [Eval() in Monitors](https://community.postman.com/t/eval-in-monitors/5643)

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**Author:** [@toddbarnes](https://community.postman.com/u/toddbarnes)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 11, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/eval-in-monitors/5643 "2023-07-11T11:36:03Z")

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Hi. I have a collection with “tests” that use “eval()” to pull in modular javascript that I keep in “globals”. Everything works great with the Postman UI and via Runner (also within the PM UI). However, when I setup a M…

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## [Monitor fails after all tests have run successfully](https://community.postman.com/t/monitor-fails-after-all-tests-have-run-successfully/48592)

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**Author:** [@leegrey-at-anywhere](https://community.postman.com/u/leegrey-at-anywhere)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 26, 2023, 11:26am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/monitor-fails-after-all-tests-have-run-successfully/48592 "2023-06-26T11:26:17Z")

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We see this in our monitors occasionally. The entire collection runs fine, but then we get a failure at the end of the run. Any idea what might cause this and how to avoid these misleading test failures?

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## [Problem with Monitors not working](https://community.postman.com/t/problem-with-monitors-not-working/25906)

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**Author:** [@vicmu](https://community.postman.com/u/vicmu)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [June 26, 2023, 11:10am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/problem-with-monitors-not-working/25906 "2023-06-26T11:10:20Z")

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My question: I am having issue with running my collection on the Monitors. It runs with no issues on the runner, but does not on the Monitors. It gives me error 401 Unauthorized only when I use the Monitors. Details (l…

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