Guides & Reference
Documentation
Practical guides and technical reference material for getting the most out of DeployMonitor.
Create and verify your account
Create a DeployMonitor account, verify your email address, and sign in for the first time.
Create your first project
Add a website to DeployMonitor and create its project workspace, monitor, history, and alert settings.
Configure your first monitor
Enable uptime and SSL certificate checks for a project and choose how often DeployMonitor checks uptime.
Use the dashboard and global search
Use the dashboard for a quick health summary and search across the projects and logs you can access.
Manage your projects
Find, organize, update, leave, or delete the projects available to your account.
Invite and manage project members
Invite teammates from the Members tab, manage pending invitations, change roles, and remove project access.
Understand project roles and permissions
Compare Member, Developer, and Admin permissions for settings, environments, logs, maintenance, reports, and API tokens.
Create and manage project logs
Record project changes manually and understand who can edit or delete each changelog entry.
Find and understand project history
Search logs across projects and use a project's Activity feed to review logs and maintenance together."
Manage project environments
Create project environments and use them to organize logs and maintenance across deployment targets.
Create and share project reports
Generate project reports, print or save them as PDF, and optionally share a secure public link.
Configure uptime and certificate monitoring
Control uptime and SSL certificate checks for a project and choose the normal uptime-check interval.
Configure project alerts and notifications
Choose which project events can send alerts and how each member receives them in the app, by email, or by SMS.
How DeployMonitor checks your site
Learn how uptime requests, redirects, destination safety, robots.txt, and the DeployMonitor user-agent work.
Monitor SSL certificates
Enable SSL certificate monitoring, interpret certificate states, and configure renewal and expiration alerts.
Monitor domain registration health
Enable Domain Health, interpret registration states, configure alerts, and recover from disabled checks.
Schedule and manage project maintenance
Schedule environment-aware maintenance, manage its lifecycle, review Activity, and understand alert suppression.
Understand uptime status and history
Interpret uptime states, robots.txt pauses, confirmed outages, maintenance behavior, percentages, and history.
Understand response-time metrics
Use response-time history to compare recent website performance and recognize changes that need investigation.
Update your profile, timezone, and appearance
Keep your account details current and choose how DeployMonitor displays dates and color themes.
Manage your email and password
Change your login email, update your password, or recover access when you forget your password.
Set up two-factor authentication and recovery codes
Protect your account with an authenticator app and keep recovery codes available for emergency access.
Verify a phone number for SMS alerts
Verify a US or Canadian phone number, then enable supported SMS alerts in each project's Alerts settings.
Add and manage passkeys
Add passkeys for passwordless sign-in, review their usage, confirm sensitive actions, and remove passkeys you no longer use.
Review and end browser sessions
Inspect active account sessions and remotely sign out browsers or devices you no longer trust.
Delete your account
Permanently remove your DeployMonitor account after reviewing the effect on owned and shared project data.
Create and use API tokens
Create a project-scoped Bearer token, store it securely, review its usage, and revoke it when it is no longer needed.
Get the project assigned to a token
Use the token-project endpoint to discover the numeric project ID and current project details.
Create project logs with the API
Create a structured changelog entry for a project using a project-scoped Bearer token.
List and view project logs with the API
Retrieve a paginated project history or fetch one log using a project-scoped API token.
Manage project maintenance with the API
Create, read, update, end, or cancel a project's maintenance window with a project-scoped API token.
Manage project environments with the API
List, create, and view project environments through the API for deployment and maintenance tagging.
API errors, rate limits, and fingerprints
Handle API authentication, authorization, conflicts, validation, missing resources, throttling, and duplicate automated events.
Record deployments from CI/CD
Add a DeployMonitor project log after a production deployment succeeds and its health check passes.