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Step-by-step guides, tutorials, and best practices to help you get the most out of SiteMonitor.
Quick Start Guide — Get Monitoring in Minutes
New to SiteMonitor? This is your starting point. Walk through account creation, add your first website, configure checks, and set up alerts — all in under 10 minutes.
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Creating Your Account
Set up your SiteMonitor account in seconds. Learn about email verification, profile setup, and first-login tips.
Adding Your First Website
Learn how to add a website to SiteMonitor, choose the right monitoring type, and verify ownership.
Configuring Monitoring Settings
Fine-tune your monitoring configuration — check frequency, timeout thresholds, and multi-region checks.
Setting Notification Preferences
Configure where and how you receive alerts — email, Slack, webhooks, or SMS — with per-site controls.
Understanding Uptime Checks
Discover how SiteMonitor measures uptime, what counts as downtime, and how checks are logged globally.
Downtime Detection Explained
Learn the algorithms behind downtime detection — confirmation checks, false-positive prevention, and incident scoring.
Response Time Monitoring
Track TTFB and full page load times. Set baseline alerts, view historical trends, and spot regressions fast.
Monitoring Intervals Guide
Choose the right check interval for your site type — from every 30 seconds for critical APIs to hourly for content sites.
Response Time Analysis
Deep-dive into response time data. Use percentile charts (p50, p95, p99) to identify performance outliers.
Page Speed Tracking Setup
Connect Lighthouse-powered speed tracking. Set performance budgets and receive alerts when scores drop.
Core Web Vitals Guide
Master LCP, CLS, and INP metrics. Understand what drives each score and how SiteMonitor tracks them continuously.
Performance Optimization Tips
Actionable recommendations from SiteMonitor's AI engine — from image compression to critical CSS extraction.
Technical SEO Monitoring
Automate audits for crawlability, canonical tags, schema markup, and Core Web Vitals from an SEO lens.
Broken Link Tracking
Detect 404s and broken internal/external links automatically. Get notified before search engines penalize you.
Meta Tag Analysis
Audit title tags, meta descriptions, OG tags, and Twitter cards across your entire site with one-click reports.
Email Alerts Setup
Configure email notifications for downtime, performance drops, and SEO issues. Manage recipients per site.
Custom Notification Settings
Build notification rules with custom thresholds, escalation paths, quiet hours, and team-wide routing.
API Access & Authentication
Generate API keys, understand OAuth flows, and make your first authenticated request to the SiteMonitor API.
Webhook Integrations
Connect SiteMonitor events to Slack, PagerDuty, Jira, or any custom endpoint using signed webhooks.
Website Connection Issues
Diagnose SSL errors, DNS failures, firewall blocks, and timeout issues affecting your monitoring checks.
Missing Alerts Troubleshooting
Not getting alerts? Step through our checklist: notification rules, spam filters, webhook delivery logs.
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