Create your first monitor

A monitor is an HTTP check or an SSL certificate check that runs on a schedule from the regions you choose. This page walks through creating one.

  1. Navigate to /dashboard/monitors/new. This opens the new monitor form.
  2. Choose a monitor type. Select HTTP monitor to check that a URL returns the status code you expect, or SSL certificate check to verify a certificate is valid and get warned before it expires.
  3. Fill in the type-specific fields. For an HTTP monitor, enter the URL to check, choose a Method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, or HEAD), and set the Expected status code. For an SSL certificate check, enter the Hostname, the Port (defaults to 443), and optionally set Warn before expiry (days) to get notified before the certificate expires.
  4. Set the check interval, timeout, and regions. Check interval options are 1 min, 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, and 1 hour — 5 min is the default. Timeout controls how long a check waits before failing. Regions are US East, EU West, and Asia; select the ones you want the check to run from.
  5. Optionally attach a notification policy. The Notification policy field determines which alert channels are notified when this monitor's status changes. If you haven't set one up yet, leave it as "None (no alerts)" — you'll configure this in the next section.
  6. Click Create monitor. Your monitor is saved and scheduling begins.

What happens next

Stector starts running checks on the interval and regions you chose. Results appear on the monitor's detail page in the dashboard. If a check starts failing, an incident is opened automatically.

What's next

Continue to Set up alert channels to get notified when a monitor's status changes.