Getting started — your first monitor in 5 minutes

Getting your first monitor live in Everguardly is a five-minute job. Here's the exact path from fresh signup to "I get an email if this site goes down".

Step 1: sign up

Visit /signup and create an account. We don't ask for a credit card on the 14-day trial — that's deliberate. If we have to lock you in with billing details to get you in the door, our product isn't good enough.

Step 2: add your first monitor

From /dashboard/monitors click Add monitor. Three things matter in the form:

• Name — whatever you'll recognize at 2am
• URL — full https://
• Check interval — 5 minutes is the default; 1 minute is the most aggressive on the Solo tier

Step 3: set up alerts

By default, alerts go to your account email. Add a Slack webhook from /dashboard/settings/channels to also page your team. Test the channel from the same page — that button actually sends a test message through the same code path the worker uses, so a passing test really does prove the alert path works.

Step 4: watch the first check

Within 30 seconds the scheduler dispatches a probe. You'll see the status flip from pending to up in the list. If the site is down, you'll see down plus a count of open incidents.

That's it

Repeat for your other client sites — or use the CSV import button if you've got more than ten. The whole point is that once a monitor's up, you stop thinking about it. The alerts come to you, not the other way around.