How to add your first monitor

A monitor checks a website, API endpoint, server or port at a regular interval and alerts you when it fails.

You can add as many monitors as your plan allows: 15 on Start, 100 on Professional and 250 on Business.

Add a monitor

1. Log in to your Uptimecheck account.
2. Open Uptime monitors and choose Create monitor.
3. Give the monitor a name and pick the type: HTTP(s) for websites and APIs, Ping (ICMP) for servers, or Host / Port for databases and mail servers.
4. Enter the URL, or the host and port.
5. Under Notifications, tick the notification handlers that should be alerted.
6. Choose the check interval.
7. Choose Create.

Check what matters

For HTTP(S) monitors you can set your own method, request body, headers and basic auth, and validate the expected response. That way a page that returns an error message with status 200 is still caught.

Intervals and confirmation

Every paid plan checks every minute. When a check fails, it is checked again a few seconds later before an incident opens, so one blip does not wake anyone up. More on uptime monitoring; for APIs, see how to monitor an API endpoint.