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Short guides for setting up monitors, alerts and status pages.

Your first monitor from the command line

Create a key in settings, then run one of these.

curl -X POST https://api.pointsman.example/v1/monitors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POINTSMAN_KEY" \
  -d '{ "url": "https://northline.example", "every": "1m" }'

Get started

Quickstart

Add your first monitor in about two minutes.

Invite your team

Add teammates and choose what each person can do.

API keys

Create a key and make your first request.

Monitors

Check types

HTTP, keyword, SSL, DNS and heartbeat checks.

Regions and retries

How Pointsman decides that a service is really down.

Heartbeat monitors

Find out when a cron job stops running.

Keyword checks

Catch pages that load but show the wrong thing.

Maintenance windows

Silence alerts during planned work.

Incidents

Severity levels

What high, medium and low mean for your team.

Writing updates

Short templates for telling customers what is going on.

On-call schedules

Build a rota the whole team can see.

Escalation rules

Decide who hears next when nobody answers.

Postmortem drafts

Turn an incident into a written review.

Status pages

Custom domains

Serve your status page from your own address.

Subscriber emails

Let customers follow your status page.

Private status pages

Share status with an internal team.

Integrations

Connect Slack

Send alerts and incident updates to a channel.

Webhooks

Send incidents to anything with a URL.

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