Set up notifications

Two layers: events and targets

A monitor detail page has two cards. In Notifications you decide what you are told about. In Notification targets you decide where, that is, which email addresses or channels. Your account address is a target from the start.

Which events

You can turn four events on or off per monitor:

• Outage and recovery: when the site goes down and when it is back online (on by default).
• SSL certificate: expiry warnings plus expired and valid again (off by default).
• Domain expiry: a warning when the domain is about to expire (on by default).
• Load-time warning: when the response time is well above the baseline (off by default).

Channels: email, Slack, Discord, webhook

A target can be an email address or a URL for webhook, Slack and Discord. Email is included on every plan; the three URL channels belong to the Pro plan.

1. 1

   Pick a channel

   In Notification targets, choose the channel, that is, email, webhook, Slack or Discord.

2. 2

   Enter address or URL

   Enter the email address or the target URL. URLs must be https and must not point at internal addresses.

3. 3

   Add and test

   Add the target. For URL channels you can trigger a sample notification with Send test.

Test it once

With Send test email to me you send yourself a sample mail to your account address. That way you see straight away whether delivery works, without waiting for a real outage.