Quick Start Guide

Get Started in 5 Minutes

This guide walks you through the essential steps to go from zero to a fully working monitoring and status page setup.

Step 1: Sign Up and Create Your Organization

1. Go to app.alert24.net/signup and create your account
2. You can sign up with email or use Google sign-in
3. After signing in, the onboarding wizard will guide you through creating your first organization

Your organization is your team's workspace. All services, monitoring checks, status pages, and team members live within your organization.

[Screenshot: Onboarding wizard]

Step 2: Create Your First Service

A service represents something you want to monitor — your API, website, database, or any other component of your infrastructure.

1. Navigate to Services in the top navigation bar
2. Click Create Service
3. Give it a name (e.g., "Production API" or "Marketing Website")
4. Optionally add a description

[Screenshot: Creating a service]

Step 3: Add a Monitoring Check

Now attach a monitoring check to your service to start tracking its health.

For your own endpoints (HTTP Check):

1. Go to Monitoring in the navigation bar
2. Click Add Check
3. Select HTTP Check
4. Enter your endpoint URL (e.g., https://api.yourapp.com/health)
5. Configure the expected status code (usually 200)
6. Set the check interval (default: every 10 minutes on the free plan, faster intervals available on paid plans)
7. Link it to the service you just created

You can also use Ping, TCP, or SSL checks depending on what you need to monitor. Ping checks verify host reachability, TCP checks test port connectivity, and SSL checks monitor certificate expiration.

For third-party providers (Status Page Check):

1. Go to Monitoring > Add Check
2. Select Status Page Check
3. Browse or search the provider list (3,500+ providers including Cloudflare, AWS, etc.)
4. Select the specific services you depend on
5. Link it to a service

Pro plan extras: ISP outage monitoring auto-detects your ISP and alerts you to BGP outages. Browser monitoring uses headless Chrome for WAF-protected pages.

[Screenshot: Adding an HTTP check]

Step 4: Create a Status Page

Give your customers visibility into your service health with a public status page.

1. Navigate to Status Pages in the navigation bar
2. Click Create Status Page
3. Give it a name and optional description
4. Add the services you want to display
5. Configure branding (logo, colors)
6. Publish it

Your status page will be available at a public URL that you can share with customers and embed on your website.

[Screenshot: Status page builder]

Step 5: You're Done

Alert24 is now:

• Monitoring your endpoints at the interval you configured
• Watching third-party provider status pages for incidents
• Displaying real-time service health on your public status page
• Ready to alert you when something goes wrong

Next Steps

• Key Concepts — Understand how organizations, applications, services, and checks relate to each other
• HTTP Checks — Deep dive into HTTP monitoring configuration
• Check Configuration — Configure intervals, thresholds, and all check types (HTTP, Ping, TCP, SSL, Status Page, ISP, Browser)
• Status Page Checks — Learn about third-party status page monitoring
• Incident Management — Learn how to manage and communicate incidents