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Everything StatusHQ monitors, and how to wire it up. New here? Start with the four steps below — most teams have their first alert routed in a few minutes.
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1. Create your account
Sign up free (5 monitors, no card). Or self-host the whole thing from the GitHub repo.
Learn more2. Add your first monitor
Point a monitor at a URL, host, or port. Uptime, SSL, DNS, ping and more each become a check on that site.
Learn more3. Route your alerts
Attach Email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Pushover, ntfy, or a webhook to a monitor.
Learn more4. Publish a status page
Give customers a public (or access-controlled) page that reflects your monitors in real time.
Learn moreAvailability.
Uptime monitoring
HTTP(S) checks with status, latency, and keyword assertions.
ReferencePing monitoring
ICMP reachability for hosts that do not speak HTTP.
ReferenceTCP port monitoring
Confirm a port accepts connections (databases, SMTP, custom services).
ReferenceCron / heartbeat
Watch scheduled jobs by expecting a ping on a cadence.
ReferenceHealth checks
Parse a JSON health endpoint and alert on degraded fields.
ReferenceCertificates & DNS.
SSL certificate monitoring
Expiry warnings at 30/14/7/1 days and fingerprint-change detection.
ReferenceDomain monitoring
WHOIS-based registration-expiry warnings.
ReferenceDNS monitoring
Snapshot A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CAA and alert on record changes.
ReferenceDNS blocklist monitoring
Watch your origin IP against public spam/abuse blocklists.
ReferencePerformance & security.
Lighthouse monitoring
Scheduled Lighthouse audits with performance-trend alerts.
ReferencePerformance monitoring
Track response-time trends and catch slow regressions.
ReferenceBroken-link crawls
Crawl a site and report broken links and mixed content.
ReferencePort-scan monitoring
Detect newly exposed ports on your servers.
ReferenceServer metrics
Push CPU/RAM from your box and chart host telemetry.
ReferenceAI checks
Describe an assertion in plain language; an AI check verifies it.
ReferenceOperate.
Self-hosting & API.
Self-host
Run the whole stack yourself — it is open source and built on the Stacks framework. Setup and deploy instructions live in the repo README.
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