Create your first monitor
From a new account to a running check in a couple of minutes.
A monitor is one thing UptimeWave keeps an eye on: a website, a server, a port, a scheduled job. The quickest start is a website monitor.
Add a website monitor
- Sign in and choose New monitor on the Monitors page.
- Leave the type on Website and type your address, for example
example.com. A bare address becomeshttps://example.com. - Pick how often to check. The fastest interval depends on your plan.
- Choose who to tell. By default the team that owns the monitor is alerted, see How alerts reach people.
- Press Create monitor. The first check runs straight away.
What happens next
Checks run on the schedule you chose. A failed check is checked again to confirm it before anyone is told, so a single hiccup does not wake anyone up. When it is confirmed, an incident opens and your alerts go out. When the site answers again, the incident closes and a recovery message is sent.
Read How checks and incidents work for the details.