Getting started

ViewPeek checks your websites, certificates, servers, and sitemaps from our infrastructure and tells you the moment something breaks. You can be set up in two minutes.

Create an account

Sign up at /register. We send a one-time verification email — click the link inside to activate the account. The Free plan starts immediately with 10 monitors included and no card on file.

Add your first monitor

From the dashboard, pick the monitor type that matches what you're watching:

• Uptime — a public website or API endpoint that should respond to HTTP.
• SSL — a domain whose TLS certificate expiry you want to track.
• Ping — a server or gateway, checked with ICMP.
• Sitemap — an XML sitemap whose listed pages should all be reachable.

Each monitor type has its own configuration page with sensible defaults — fill in the URL or domain, pick an interval, save.

Verify alerts work

The first check usually completes within a minute. To prove alerts will actually reach you when something breaks, do one of these:

• Point a temporary uptime monitor at a known-bad URL like https://example.com/__nope__ and wait for the down alert.
• Or set up a notification channel and click Send test — that posts a sample payload immediately, no failure needed.

Team-wide alerts

If multiple people should be notified, see Teams to invite teammates and Notifications to fan alerts out to Slack, Discord, or your own webhook.

Where to go next

• Set up Slack / Discord / webhook — alerts in your team chat in < 2 minutes.
• Pause or disable a monitor — for example during a planned deploy.
• Upgrade your plan — for more monitors and seats.