Uptime monitoring documentation

Set up your first monitor. Understand what each check measures and when an alert is sent.

Your first monitor

From a URL to your first check, with the steps that matter.

Create an account, verify your email and add your first public URL.

URL requirements, the 10-monitor limit, editing, pausing and deletion.

HTTP GET requests, five-minute scheduling, redirects and failure confirmation.

Read the chart, understand the measured response time and calculate observed uptime.

Certificate validation, daily expiry metadata and the 14-day warning.

What opens an incident, how its start time is recorded and what closes it.

Recipients, downtime and recovery messages, retries and delivery troubleshooting.

Sign-in, primary email verification, account deletion and privacy choices.

Investigate pending monitors, failed checks, blocked requests and missing alerts.

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