Getting started

This mirrors the 5-step wizard you land on right after signup (create a free account if you haven’t). The goal: a green first check within 10 minutes.

1. Workspace

Set your agency name, timezone, and (optionally) upload a logo. This becomes the default branding for every status page and report you create — you can override it per client later.

2. Add your first client

Clients group monitors, status pages, and reports. A client can be a real customer (“Acme Bakery”) or your own agency if you just want to try Pingdeck on your own site first.

3. Paste URLs to monitor

Paste one URL per line — up to your plan’s monitor limit. Each becomes an HTTP(S) monitor with sensible defaults (interval based on your plan, automatic confirmation before alerting). Leave “Also watch SSL expiry” and “Also watch domain expiry” checked to spin up three monitors per URL from a single line — note that the SSL and domain-expiry companions each count toward your monitor limit, same as the HTTP check. If a URL would push you over the limit, that row is skipped rather than failing the whole paste.

Right after you submit, each row runs its first live check and flips to green or red in place — this is the moment you’ll want to screenshot for your own “it works” test.

4. Alerts

An email channel pointed at your own address is created automatically at signup — nothing to configure there. Add Telegram, Slack, or Discord if your team watches a shared channel; each has a one-click “Send test” so you know it actually works before you need it.

5. Publish a status page

Pick a slug (we’ll suggest one from the client name), inherit your logo/colors from step 1, and select which monitors show publicly. Publish, and you get a live URL, a copy button, and a QR code — ready to drop into a client email today.

What’s next