Quickstart
Learn how to create your first project and monitor, choose where alerts go, and read the result, in about five minutes.
This page explains how to go from a new account to a monitor that alerts you. It takes about five minutes.
#Prerequisites
An UptimeX account. The free plan needs no card. Sign in with Apple, Google, or an email address and password. Use the same method every time: each sign-in method creates its own account, even for the same email address.
#Set up monitoring
Create a project
After you sign in, the dashboard asks you to create your first project. Give it a name of up to 18 characters. Every monitor, notification channel, status page, and API key belongs to a project, so create one before anything else.
Create a monitor
Open the project and choose New monitor. Keep the HTTP type, paste the URL you care about, and choose Create. The defaults are a HEAD request every 5 minutes, a 10 s timeout, a 1.5 s slow threshold, and 3 consecutive failures before the monitor counts as down.
The first check runs as soon as you save, so the monitor shows a real status within seconds.
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Choose where alerts go
If you use the UptimeX app, push notifications reach the devices the project's owner is signed in to, with nothing to configure. To reach a team, open the project's Notifications page and add Slack, Discord, or a webhook. Email is available on Pro and Team.
After you save a channel, open it and choose Send test, so the first real alert lands somewhere you have already seen work.
Read the monitor page
Open the monitor. The page shows its current status, uptime, response time, the last 30 checks, and an activity log of every status change. Up means checks pass. Slow means they pass but take longer than the slow threshold. Down means consecutive failures reached the failure threshold.
#When the first alert arrives
An alert is sent when a confirmed problem has lasted longer than the project's incident policy allows, 5 minutes by default. With the default settings, the first alert for a 5 minute monitor arrives about 15 minutes after the first failed check, and about 8 minutes for a 1 minute monitor. The recovery alert follows once the monitor has been healthy for 10 minutes. For the exact rules, see When alerts fire.