The sidebar
The sidebar has three parts.
Main pages
- Overview: the home page. It shows what needs your attention now.
- Monitors: all your monitors, with their status and uptime.
- Incidents: outages, now and in the past.
- Heartbeats: scheduled jobs that report in to us.
- Maintenance: planned maintenance windows.
- Reports & SLA: uptime figures and SLA results.
Communicate
- Status pages: public pages for your customers.
- Alerting: where alerts go, and the rules that decide this.
Workspace
- Team & access: your teams, members and roles.
- Plan & billing: your plan, payments and invoices.
- Account & API: your profile, password, two-factor authentication, API tokens and appearance.
- Getting started: your setup checklist.
On a phone, open the sidebar with the menu button at the top left.
The top bar
- Search: find monitors, incidents and pages. Press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac). See Search and keyboard shortcuts.
- Add monitor: add a new monitor. Viewers do not see this button.
- Trial: during the trial, a chip shows the days that are left.
- Light or dark mode: switch between light and dark.
- Help Center: opens these help pages.
- Team switcher: change the current team. Every page shows the data of the current team only.
- Notifications and your account menu.
On a phone, the light or dark switch and the Help Center link are in the account menu.
The Overview page
The Overview page starts with a summary, for example "All systems operational" or "2 monitors need your attention". Below it:
- Needs attention: open incidents, slow monitors, SSL certificates that expire within 14 days and late heartbeats. The most severe items come first.
- Your monitors: response times of the last 24 hours. Select Issues only to see only monitors with a problem.
- Response time: a chart of your monitors' response times.
- Check locations: the state of our check locations in the last 5 minutes.
- Coming up: maintenance in the next 14 days, SSL certificate renewals and your plan renewal.
- Recent activity: events of the last 14 days.
- Status page: post an update or open the editor of your status page.