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Guides for setting up monitoring, alerts, responses and status pages, and everything your team needs to know.
Getting started
Your first monitor, how incidents work, and inviting your team.
4 articlesMonitoring
Every kind of check, regions, expiry reminders and maintenance.
10 articlesAlerts and notifications
Who hears about a problem, how, and when.
5 articlesIncoming alerts
Bring alerts from Datadog, Grafana and other tools into UptimeWave.
4 articlesManaged Responses
Rules that act when something happens, including blocking addresses.
10 articlesStatus pages
A public page, announcements and email subscribers.
3 articlesTeams and people
Roles, teams, and who can see and change what.
2 articlesConnections
Chat apps, paging tools, webhooks and firewall accounts.
2 articlesAPI and firewalls
API keys, and the addresses and locations our checks use.
3 articlesPlans and security
Plans, credits, and how your data is protected.
3 articles
Popular guides
- Create your first monitorFrom a new account to a running check in a couple of minutes.
- How checks and incidents workWhat a check is, how a failure is confirmed, and what an incident contains.
- Kinds of monitorWebsite, keyword, ping, port, heartbeat, DNS, API and incoming alert monitors, and when to use each.
- How alerts reach peopleThe default response, owning teams, and the extra contacts you can add.
- Incoming alerts: what they areLet Datadog, Grafana, Alertmanager, CloudWatch or your own scripts open incidents in UptimeWave.
- Managed Responses: what they areRules that say what should happen when an incident opens, and then make it happen.
- Block addresses in CloudflareAdd the address behind an alert to a Cloudflare IP list for a while, then remove it again.
- Create a status pagePublish a public page that shows your customers what is up and what is not.
- Teams and who sees whatGroup people and monitors so the right people get the alerts and see the right monitors.
- Add a connectionConnect Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, Mattermost, PagerDuty or a webhook.
- Allow our checks through your firewallThe addresses and User-Agent our checks use, for sites behind a firewall.