Getting started

From signing up to your first monitor, notification channel, scheduled task and API key, with a link to the details of each step.

Sign up and create your organization

Sign up and create your organization.

Create your first monitor

  1. Open Monitors in the sidebar and click "New monitor"
  2. Enter the URL or host to check and click "Test"
  3. Under Counts as up when, add or edit the checks
  4. Click "Start monitoring"

Creating a Monitor explains every chip of the monitor builder, and Monitor Options the check interval, timeout, thresholds and locations.

Add a notification channel

A notification channel decides where alerts go: email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty or a webhook. Open Notification Channels in the sidebar, click "New notification channel" and add its receivers under Receivers. Then pick it under Alert to in the monitor builder. See Creating a Notification Channel.

Add a scheduled task

For a cron job or another recurring job, open Scheduled Tasks in the sidebar and click "New scheduled task". The job then sends a beat to the Beat API each time it runs; a missed beat alerts you. See Creating a Scheduled Task.

Create an API key

For the API, Terraform and MCP, create a management key under API Keys in the sidebar. It is shown only once, when it is created. See API keys and the Terraform quickstart.

Related

MonitorsSet up HTTP, DNS, ICMP and TCP port monitors in UptimeEye: the monitor builder, check interval, timeout, thresholds, locations, multi-step monitors, assertions, global variables and secure variables.NotificationsSend UptimeEye alerts to email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty or a webhook: notification channels, their integrations, PagerDuty setup and notification events.Scheduled tasksMonitor cron jobs and background jobs with UptimeEye scheduled tasks: simple and cron tasks, the Beat API endpoints with cURL examples, and the grace period before an alert.