Getting Started with Nines

Overview

Nines has three core concepts:

1. Monitors — periodic checks that verify your services are up and responding correctly.
2. Incidents — automatically created when a monitor fails; resolved when it recovers.
3. Status Pages — public pages that display your monitors' current status and incident history.

Add a Monitor

After signing up, create your first monitor from the dashboard:

1. Click New Monitor in the dashboard.
2. Enter the URL you want to monitor (e.g., https://api.example.com/health).
3. Choose your check interval (5 minutes on Free, 1 minute on Pro, 30 seconds on Business).
4. Select the regions to check from.
5. Click Save. Nines will start checking within seconds.

A monitor is considered down when it fails from all selected regions. This prevents false positives from single-region network hiccups.

Create a Status Page

Status pages let you communicate service health to your users proactively.

1. Go to Status Pages in the dashboard.
2. Click New Status Page and give it a name.
3. Add the monitors you want to display.
4. Your status page is live at https://status.nines.sh/your-page.
5. Pro and Business plans can use a custom domain (e.g., status.example.com).

Notifications

Configure how you get alerted when a monitor goes down:

• Email — available on all plans.
• Slack — available on Pro and Business plans.
• PagerDuty — available on Business plan.
• Webhooks — available on Business plan.

Go to Settings → Notifications to configure your channels.

Incidents

Incidents are created automatically when a monitor fails from all regions. When the monitor recovers, the incident is resolved automatically.

You can also create manual incidents from the dashboard to communicate planned maintenance or known issues to your status page subscribers.