Getting started

1. Create an account

Sign up with your email, or with Google or GitHub. The free plan doesn't need a card.

2. Add your first site

Click Add site and paste your website's address, like yourbakery.com. Pingerer looks it up and suggests checks: uptime, SSL certificate, domain expiry, DNS and email setup. Untick anything you don't want and click Start monitoring. The first checks run within a minute. More about adding a site.

Moving from UptimeRobot, Better Stack or Pingdom? Bring your monitors over with a read-only key instead of adding them one by one.

3. Check where alerts go

When you add your first site, Pingerer sets up an email alert to you for everything. Open Alerts to add Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, a webhook, SMS, ntfy, Pushover, PagerDuty or Opsgenie, and to choose which sites go where. Use Send test on each channel to make sure it arrives. Alerts and channels.

4. Invite your team (optional)

From Team & API, invite the people who should see your sites and get alerts. Team and roles.

What to set up next

• Heartbeats for backups and scheduled jobs.
• A status page for your customers.
• Maintenance windows so planned work doesn't page anyone.
• The monthly report, emailed on the 1st.