# using curl (10 second timeout, retry up to 5 times):
curl -m 10 --retry 5 https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32

# using wget (10 second timeout, retry up to 5 times):
wget https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32 -T 10 -t 5 -O /dev/null

# Using Python 3 standard library:
import socket
import urllib.request

try:
    urllib.request.urlopen("https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32", timeout=10)
except socket.error as e:
    # Log ping failure here...
    print("Ping failed: %s" % e)

# Using the requests library:
import requests

try:
    requests.get("https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32", timeout=10)
except requests.RequestException as e:
    # Log ping failure here...
    print("Ping failed: %s" % e)

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32'))

var https = require('https');
https.get('https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32').on('error', (err) => {
    console.log('Ping failed: ' + err)
});

package main

import "fmt"
import "net/http"
import "time"

func main() {
    var client = &http.Client{
        Timeout: 10 * time.Second,
    }

    _, err := client.Head("https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Printf("%s", err)
    }
}

file_get_contents('https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32');

try
{
    using (var client = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient())
    {
        client.Timeout = System.TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10);
        client.GetAsync("https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32").Wait();
    }
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
    System.Console.WriteLine($"Ping failed: {ex.Message}");
}

// the server returns appropriate CORS headers so cross-domain AJAX requests work:
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', 'https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32', true);
xhr.send(null);

# inside a PowerShell script:
Invoke-RestMethod https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32

# Without an underlying script, passing the command to PowerShell directly:
powershell.exe -Command "&{Invoke-RestMethod https://upmon.net/ffb01810-7c47-4c5b-81d1-50a88da43f32}"