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Guides for setting up Pingerer, what every check and alert means, and the API and CLI. Can't find it? Ask us.
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Getting started
Create an account, add your first site and get your first alert in a few minutes.
Adding a site
What happens when you paste a URL, and which checks Pingerer turns on.
Importing from another service
Bring your monitors over from UptimeRobot, Better Stack, Pingdom or a list of URLs.
FAQ
Short answers to the questions people ask most.
Checks
Uptime checks (HTTP, keyword, ping, port)
How uptime checks work, what counts as down, and every setting.
SSL certificate checks
Expiry reminders, broken chains and wrong hostnames.
Domain expiry checks
How Pingerer reads your domain's renewal date and when it reminds you.
DNS change checks
Which records are watched and what a DNS change alert means.
Email setup checks (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
What each record does and how to fix the common problems.
Heartbeats (cron jobs)
Ping URLs for backups and scheduled jobs, with snippets for cron, shell, Rails, Laravel, Node and Python.
Alerts
Alerts and channels
Email, Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, webhooks, ntfy, Pushover, PagerDuty and Opsgenie; rules, escalation and quiet hours.
SMS alerts and credits
Verifying a number, how texts are counted, buying more and phone calls.
Maintenance windows
Keep planned work from setting off alerts or counting against uptime.
Share
Status pages
Set up a public status page, post updates and let customers subscribe.
Status page custom domains
Put your status page on your own address with a CNAME and a TXT record.
Monthly reports
Uptime, incidents and response times for a month, on screen, printed or emailed.
Account
Team and roles
Invite people and choose what each person can do.
Billing and plans
Free and Paid, how domains are counted, monthly or yearly, founding members, cancelling and receipts.
Developers
API
Tokens, accounts, rate limits and where to find the full reference.
Command-line tool (CLI)
Install the pingerer CLI and use it in your terminal and CI.
API reference
Every endpoint, parameter and response, generated from the OpenAPI description.