Getting Started

Create your first monitor, understand when Nines will alert you, and see your first incident in under five minutes.

1. Create an account

Go to Sign Up Free and enter your email address and a password. No credit card is required to start — the Free plan gives you up to seven monitors checked every 5 minutes.

2. Create your first monitor

After signing in you land on your Dashboard. Click New monitor and fill in the form:

  • Name — a label you choose, for example Production API.
  • Type — start with HTTP Check if you have a URL that should return 2xx.
  • Target — the full URL, for example https://api.example.com/health.
  • Interval — how often to probe. The shortest interval available depends on your plan.
  • Regions — pick at least two for redundancy. Nines only opens an incident when all selected regions agree that the target is down.

Save the form. Your new monitor appears on the dashboard and begins probing immediately.

3. Set up notifications

Before Nines can alert you, you need to add at least one notification channel. Go to Settings → Notifications and add an email address or webhook URL. Alerts are only sent to channels you have explicitly configured — there is no default.

When every selected region reports a failure, Nines opens an incident and sends an alert to each configured channel. When all regions recover, a resolution alert follows automatically.

4. Watch the dashboard

The dashboard shows the current up/down status of every monitor, the uptime percentage over the last 24 hours, and whether any incidents are open. Click a monitor name to see the full check history, response-time chart, and — on paid plans — the error-budget panel.

Next steps