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# Introduction to IsDown

**IsDown** is your all-in-one **status page aggregator** and **outage monitoring tool**, designed to help you stay on top of your business-critical services.\
Get **real-time outage alerts** and a **centralized dashboard** to monitor the health of all your external services — all in one place.

To get started with IsDown, you first need an IsDown account. 

You can [Sign In](https://isdown.app/users/sign_in) or [Create your new account here](https://isdown.app/users/sign_up).

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**Related Articles**

* [**How to Set Up Slack Alerts**](https://help.isdown.app/notifications/slack/notification-themes)
* [**Adding a New Team Member**](https://help.isdown.app/accounts/how-to-add-a-team-member)
* [**Start Monitoring a 3rd-party Service**](/cloud-monitoring/how-to-monitor-3rd-party-services.md)

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**If you're experience issue**

* [**Notifications Not Sending**](https://help.isdown.app/notifications/email)
* [**SSO Login Issue**](/accounts/how-to-set-up-single-sign-on-sso/enforce-sso-login.md)
* [**Service Not Appearing in Search**](/cloud-monitoring/how-to-suggest-a-new-3rd-party-service.md)