Get started with Monitoring

You can use Instatus monitors to get notified if your service is down. You can also track the availability and performance of your services.

When an incident occurs, you can collaborate with your team to resolve it. You can also optionally update your status page.

This is how your monitor list looks like:

Key features

Check from multiple locations every 30 seconds.
Keep detailed logs of the response body, headers, and more.
Track the availability and performance of your services.
Define multiple conditions to ensure your service is working correctly. Check for status codes, response time, certain keywords, and more.
Send alerts to notify your team through multiple channels, including Slack, email, SMS, phone calls, and more.
Set up on-call schedules to notify the right person when an incident occurs.

When you click on a monitor, you can see more details about it:

To add a monitor, navigate to your project → Monitors → Add monitor.

Choose your monitor type. You can choose from Website, API, Ping, TCP or DNS.

Enter the URL you want to monitor. Depending on the monitor type, this can be a specific URL or hostname.

These are conditions that need to be met for the monitor to succeed. Based on monitor type, you have multiple assertions to choose from.

Website (availability, body, status code, JSON body, response header, response time)
API (availability, body, status code, JSON body, response header, response time)
Ping (response)
TCP (port thresholds)
DNS (server response: A or MX)

You can set up alerts to notify you when a monitor fails or recovers.

Friendly name: Give your monitor a friendly name, just for your reference.
Run checks every: Choose how often to run the monitor. For more frequent checks, you can upgrade to the Pro plan.
Run from: We run checks from one location at a time; round robin. You can choose between America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Add to status page: This option allows you to add your monitor to your status page.
When a monitor fails: You could create an incident, publish to your status page, or notify page subscribers.
When a monitor recovers: You could resolve the incident, publish to your status page, or notify page subscribers.

Congrats, you've added your first monitor!