Uptrends account overview

Your Uptrends account gives you access to all monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities. To kickstart your Uptrends journey, sign up and set up your account with us.

Sign up

Follow these steps to create an Uptrends account to start monitoring your websites and services:

1. Sign up using your email address and password.
2. Click Start free trial.
3. Check your email and click Activate your account.
4. Log in to the Uptrends web application.

Your 30-day free trial is now active. Start by setting up your Uptrends account.

Set up your account

Once you log into the Uptrends web application, you need to fill out a form to complete your account setup. This includes setting up your account details and initially configuring your monitoring environment, such as selecting the type of monitoring you need and other monitor details.

If you select Website monitoring, Uptrends automatically creates three monitors: Uptime, Browser, and SSL Certificate to get you started. If you select API monitoring, you can choose to create a monitor from scratch or use a ready-made, pre-configured monitor that you can test or modify later.

This flow helps you get started with a monitor configured based on the domain you provided during setup. Once complete, congratulations! You have successfully set up your Uptrends account. Use the navigation menu to explore Uptrends and its monitoring capabilities.

Manage your account

Your Uptrends account is created when you sign up for a trial or purchase a subscription. The account holder is the administrator and has full privileges to manage account-wide settings.

In Uptrends, every user who accesses the account is called an operator. The administrator can add or remove operators and configure each operator’s main settings, such as contact details, login credentials, and language preferences.

Each operator’s access is controlled through permissions. Permissions determine what an operator can view, edit, or manage within the account. For example, you can allow an operator to view monitor data but restrict them from changing monitor settings or managing billing.

Depending on your role and permissions, you can:

• Add and manage users — invite team members as operators and assign roles with specific permissions to control what each person can access.
• Manage Uptrends configuration — configure and manage monitors, alerts, dashboards, and integrations.
• Review activity — track changes made to your account using the audit log.
• Store credentials securely — use the vault to manage sensitive data such as passwords and tokens used by your monitors.
• Configure account settings — update your account preferences, such as timezone, default checkpoints, and password policies.
• Manage billing — view your subscription and invoices, renew your plan, or purchase additional monitors and SMS credits.

You can organize operators into operator groups to manage permissions and alert notifications more efficiently. Instead of configuring permissions for each operator individually, assign them to a group with shared access rights. Operator groups are also useful for routing alerts to the right team. For example, sending database alerts to your infrastructure team and web alerts to your front-end team.