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5-Minute Quickstart

Get your first monitor up and running in just a few minutes. This guide will walk you through creating an account, setting up a monitor, configuring alerts, and viewing your status page.

1

Create Your Account

Visit pixomonitor.com and click Sign Up to create your account.

You can sign up with:

  • Email and password — Create a new account with your email
  • Google — Sign in with your Google account for faster setup

After signing up, check your email for a verification link. Click the link to verify your account and activate all features.

If you don't receive the verification email, check your spam folder or request a new verification email from the login page.

2

Create Your First Monitor

Once logged in, you'll see the dashboard. Click Create Monitor to set up your first check.

For a basic HTTP monitor:

  1. Name — Give your monitor a descriptive name (e.g., "Main Website")
  2. URL — Enter the full URL to monitor (e.g., https://example.com)
  3. Type — Select "HTTP" or "HTTPS"
  4. Interval — Choose an interval allowed by your plan
  5. Click Create Monitor

Your monitor will start running immediately. Within a minute, you'll see the first check results on your dashboard.

Free checks run every 5 minutes. Starter supports 3-minute checks, Pro and Lifetime support 1-minute checks, and Team and Enterprise support 30-second checks.

3

Set Up Alert Notifications

Get notified when your monitor goes down. Navigate to Settings → Alert Channels and click Add Channel.

Email alerts are the easiest to set up:

  1. Select Email as the channel type
  2. Enter the email address for notifications
  3. Click Save

You can also set up alerts for:

  • Slack — Send alerts to a Slack channel
  • Discord — Send alerts to a Discord server
  • Telegram — Send alerts via Telegram bot
  • SMS — Receive text message alerts
  • Webhooks — Integrate with any service

After creating an alert channel, use the Test button to send a test notification and verify it's working correctly.

4

Configure the Status Page

PixoMonitor provides one status-page configuration per account. To configure it:

  1. Go to Status Page → Settings
  2. Add a Title for the status page
  3. Create Components to organize monitors (e.g., "API", "Website", "Database")
  4. Assign monitors to components

The default hosted status surface is https://pixomonitor.com/status. Paid plans can associate the account-specific page with a verified custom domain such as status.yourdomain.com.

5

Explore Advanced Features

Now that you have the basics set up, explore these additional features:

  • Multi-location checks — Verify availability from multiple regions
  • SSL monitoring — Track certificate expiration dates
  • Incident management — Log and track service disruptions
  • On-call schedules — Manage team rotations
  • SLA tracking — Monitor uptime targets and error budgets

What's Next?

Now that you have your first monitor running, here are some recommended next steps:

Add More Monitors

Learn about all 10 monitor types and when to use each one.

Configure More Alerts

Set up Slack, Discord, SMS, and other notification channels.

Customize Status Page

Brand your status page with custom logos and domains.

Invite Your Team

Add team members and set up on-call rotations.

Common Next Steps

Monitor Different Services

Beyond basic HTTP monitoring, consider setting up:

  • SSL Certificate monitors — Get alerts before certificates expire
  • DNS monitors — Verify DNS records are resolving correctly
  • Heartbeat monitors — Check that cron jobs are running
  • TCP monitors — Monitor database ports and other services

Set Up Incident Management

When something goes wrong:

  1. PixoMonitor creates incidents when monitors cross their configured outage threshold
  2. You can add status updates to keep users informed
  3. Resolve incidents and track mean time to recovery (MTTR)
  4. Create post-mortems to learn from outages

Track SLAs

If you have uptime commitments:

  1. Define SLA targets (e.g., 99.9% uptime)
  2. Monitor error budgets in real-time
  3. Generate compliance reports
  4. Get alerts when SLAs are at risk

Need help? Check the sidebar for detailed guides on each feature, or use the search (⌘K) to find specific topics.