How to Get Started with IsDown

Set up IsDown in just a few minutes. Follow these steps to start monitoring your services and receiving real-time alerts.

1. Add Services to Your Dashboard

• Select the services you want to monitor.

1. Set Up Notifications

• By default, you’ll receive outage alerts via email.

• Customize notifications in the Alerts & Integrations section to receive alerts via Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Datadog, and more.

1. Customize Alerts

• Tailor notifications by:

  Components – Get alerts only for specific service components.

  Severity – Choose to receive only major outage alerts.

1. Create a Status Page

• Want to share the dashboard with your team or clients?

• Go to the Status Page section in the sidebar and follow the setup steps.

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