Monitors overview
Monitors are the core of your Uptrends monitoring setup. Each monitor represents a URL, server, web service, or API endpoint that Uptrends checks for availability, performance, and functionality. A monitor defines what you want to track and how Uptrends should check it.
When you create a monitor, you specify the target you want to monitor (such as a website URL or API endpoint), configure how often it should be checked, set up error conditions to detect issues, and define alerting rules to notify you when problems occur. Uptrends offers a variety of monitor types to meet different monitoring needs, from simple uptime checks to complex multi-step API transactions and browser-based performance monitoring.
Getting started with monitors
To begin monitoring your services, you’ll need to create your first monitor. You’ll choose a monitor type that fits what you want to track, then configure the settings.
Here’s what you’ll do next:
Manage your monitors
As your monitoring setup grows, you need effective ways to organize and manage multiple monitors.
Monitor configuration
The Monitor configuration overview page provides a comprehensive overview of all monitors in your account, including their configuration, status, and check intervals. You can use this page to quickly find monitors, filter by different criteria, and export monitor configuration data for reports or documentation.
Monitor groups
Monitor groups help you organize monitors into logical collections based on criteria such as monitor type, geographic location, and domain. Groups make it easier to apply settings to multiple monitors at once, configure alert definitions, and create dashboards and reports. A monitor can belong to multiple groups, giving you flexibility in how you organize and view your monitoring data.
For more information, see Monitor groups.
Monitor templates
Monitor templates enable you to apply common settings, such as error conditions, checkpoints, maintenance periods, and load time limits to multiple monitors simultaneously. Instead of configuring these settings individually for each monitor, you can create a template with your preferred configuration and apply it to any number of monitors or monitor groups. This reduces the time and effort required to keep monitoring settings consistent across your monitors.
For more information, see Monitor templates.
Maintenance periods
Maintenance periods let you schedule times when monitors should pause checks or when alerts should be in downtime. This is essential for planned maintenance windows, updates, or deployments when you expect services to be unavailable. By configuring maintenance periods, you can prevent false alerts during scheduled downtime and maintain accurate uptime calculations.
For more information, see Maintenance periods.