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Quickstart

This guide walks through creating an account, adding your first HTTP monitor, and wiring up an alert channel so you actually find out when something breaks.

1. Create an account

Sign up at app.pathwatch.app/sign-up. You’ll need to verify your email before you can create monitors.

The Free tier includes:

  • 30 standard uptime monitor slots within a pool of 50 execution targets — the “50 monitors” figure on the pricing page counts execution targets (monitor × region pairs). See Slot quotas for the distinction.
  • 5-minute minimum check interval
  • 6 Tier 1 (Essential) regions
  • 90 days of result retention
  • Email, Slack, Discord, webhook, Telegram, Pushover, Zapier alerts
  • Up to 2 status pages
  • Personal organisation (single user)

2. Add a monitor

From the dashboard, click New monitor and choose HTTP. Enter:

  • URL — https://your-site.com

  • Name — friendly label shown in alerts.

  • Regions — pick at least two so the confirmation logic has something to compare. See Confirmation regions.

  • Interval — minimum check frequency for your plan:

    PlanMinimum interval
    Free5 minutes
    Starter3 minutes
    Pro1 minute
    Business30 seconds

Save. The first check fires within a few seconds and the result appears in the monitor’s Recent checks tab.

3. Add an alert channel

Go to Alerts → Channels in the left nav, then New channel. Pick a type — Email, Slack webhook, Discord, PagerDuty, and a dozen others are available — fill in the config, and save.

Then go to Alerts → Rules, click New rule, and bind the channel to your monitor.

4. Verify with a test notification

On the channels list each row has a Send test button (the paper-aeroplane icon). Click it, confirm the test arrives at the configured destination, and you’re done.

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