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Quickstart

Create an account, add your first monitor, and get alerted in under 5 minutes.

Last updated March 10, 2025

StatusOwl is up-and-running in minutes. This guide walks you from signup to your first live monitor with alert notifications.

Create your account

Head to dash.statusowl.net/register and register with your email or Google account. No credit card required for the Free plan.

Add your first monitor

  1. Click New Monitor in the sidebar.
  2. Choose a monitor type — start with HTTP for most websites and APIs.
  3. Enter the URL you want to monitor, e.g. https://yoursite.com.
  4. Set the check interval (Free plan: every 3 minutes; paid plans down to 30 seconds).
  5. Click Create Monitor. The first check runs within seconds.

Pro tip

Use the HEAD method for lightweight checks against large HTML pages — it avoids downloading the full body and reduces latency variance in response time graphs.

Configure alerts

Navigate to Settings → Notifications. By default, email alerts are enabled for the address on your account. To add Slack or webhook notifications, connect an integration first.

example alert
Subject: [DOWN] https://yoursite.com — StatusOwl
Body:   Your monitor "yoursite.com" has been down for 2 minutes.
        First failure detected at 14:03 UTC.
        Check: https://dash.statusowl.net/monitors/abc123

Next steps

  • Add more monitors — TCP, ping, SSL, domain expiry.
  • Create a public status page to communicate incidents.
  • Invite team members under Organization → Members.
  • Connect Email, Discord, Slack, Teams, ntfy, or a custom webhook for instant alerts.