Quick Start
Get your first monitor up and running in under 2 minutes.
1. Create an account
Sign up at app.uptimeguard.com using your email or Google account. No credit card is required — the free plan includes up to 50 monitors.
2. Add your first monitor
- Click Monitors in the sidebar, then click Add Monitor.
- Choose a monitor type (e.g. HTTP / HTTPS for websites).
- Enter the URL or hostname you want to monitor.
- Set the check interval (how often we ping your service).
- Click Create Monitor.
Your monitor will start checking immediately and appear on the dashboard.
3. Set up alerts
Navigate to Alerts and create an alert channel. UptimeGuard supports:
- Email — instant email notifications
- Slack — post to a Slack channel via webhook
- Discord — Discord webhook integration
- Microsoft Teams — Teams incoming webhook
- PagerDuty — trigger PagerDuty incidents
- Webhook — send to any HTTP endpoint
- Push Notifications — mobile app push alerts
Once created, assign the alert channel to your monitor by editing the monitor and selecting it under Alert Channels.
4. Create a status page
Go to Status Pages and create a public status page. Add your monitors, customize the branding, and share the URL with your users. They'll see real-time uptime status and any ongoing incidents.
5. Explore the dashboard
Your dashboard shows a summary of all monitors, current incidents, plan usage, and response-time sparklines for your top monitors. Use the Reports section for deeper analytics including uptime percentages, response-time percentiles, and incident frequency charts.