Monitoring

Getting Started with Uptime Monitoring

Enable monitoring and understand the defaults

Get up and running with Domain Pilot's uptime monitoring in seconds.

Enabling Monitoring

  1. Navigate to your domain's detail page
  2. Find the Uptime Monitoring toggle
  3. Click to enable monitoring

Once enabled, Domain Pilot immediately begins checking your domain. To stop monitoring, click the same toggle to turn it off — all historical data is preserved.

Default Settings

When you enable monitoring with no configuration, Domain Pilot uses these defaults:

  • Protocol — HTTPS
  • Path — / (root)
  • HTTP Method — GET
  • Timeout — 10 seconds
  • Expected Status Codes — 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206
  • Redirect Handling — Follow redirects

With these defaults, Domain Pilot sends a GET request to https://yourdomain.com/ and considers it "up" if it receives a 2xx status code within 10 seconds.

What Happens After Enabling

  1. First check runs immediately — you'll see your first result within seconds
  2. Subsequent checks run at regular intervals from multiple regions
  3. Statistics begin accumulating — uptime percentages, response times, and incident tracking start populating
  4. Alerts are sent if your domain goes down based on your notification preferences
  5. Real-time updates appear on your dashboard via WebSocket

Disabling Monitoring

To stop monitoring a domain, click the same toggle to turn it off. All historical data is preserved — you can re-enable monitoring at any time without losing past statistics.

Next Steps