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Getting Started ​

Pingniner ​

Pingniner is a complete monitoring app built with simplicity in mind. This guide will help you get started with monitoring in just a few minutes.

Signing Up ​

  1. Visit Pingniner and sign up for a new account.
  2. Verify your email address to activate your account.

You can also sign up with Google or GitHub instead of a password.

INFO

After signing up, your account will automatically be assigned to the free plan. This plan gives you limited monitoring resources. If you require additional resources, you can subscribe to one of our paid plans in the Billing section of your account. See Plans & Limits for what each one includes.

TIP

All our paid plans are eligible for a 14-day trial. This gives you time to try all the features of our monitoring platform risk-free.

Signing In ​

To sign in, go to app.pingniner.com and enter your credentials.

INFO

If you have forgotten your password, you can request a password reset here.

TIP

For enhanced security, we recommend that you set up two-factor authentication. You can do this in your profile and use your preferred 2FA app (Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, etc.). See Profile & Security.

Your first five minutes ​

If you do nothing else, do these four things:

  1. Set your timezone. Go to Account → My Profile → Localisation. New accounts default to UTC, and every timestamp and maintenance window you set depends on this.
  2. Create a monitor. Go to Sites and add your website — name, URL, frequency and location. The first check runs within a minute or two.
  3. Check the trigger contacts. Open the monitor's Triggers tab and make sure you are in the Contacts list. A trigger with no contacts opens incidents silently.
  4. Set up a notification channel. Email is on by default; add Pushover or Telegram if you want alerts on your phone.

WARNING

Step 3 is the one people skip, and it is the one that matters. Monitoring that detects an outage but tells nobody is not monitoring.

Monitoring ​

With Pingniner, you can monitor many different resources. Visit the section of the resource type that you want to monitor, or start with the Monitors Overview for a comparison.

  • Sites: Allows you to monitor the status of websites, including SSL certificate and domain expiry.
  • Servers: Allows you to monitor the status of Linux/Windows/macOS/BSD servers using our agent.
  • Workstations: Allows you to track and assess the health of devices that are not always online.
  • Pings: Allows you to monitor the status of network devices using ICMP ping checks.
  • Ports: Allows you to monitor the status of network services using TCP port checks.
  • Heartbeats: Allows you to monitor the execution of your cron jobs or other scheduled tasks.
  • Blacklists: Allows you to monitor your IP addresses in public blacklists (DNSBLs).

INFO

Every monitor you create counts toward your plan's monitor limit, including servers and workstations. See Plans & Limits.

Alerting ​

Once you have monitors, three pages cover everything about being told when something breaks:

You will also receive a monthly uptime report by email, on by default.

Status Pages ​

Publish a status page so your users can check service health themselves instead of contacting you. It can run on your own domain with an automatic SSL certificate, on every plan including Free.

Account ​

In the "Account" section, you can manage all the details regarding your account. Here you can manage billing-related issues, sub-accounts (users), your profile, resource groups, and support tickets. For more in-depth information about your account, please click here.

Where next ​

Monitoring done right.

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