DeployMonitor

Sites & Logs

Manage site environments

Site environments identify where an activity or maintenance event happened, such as Production, Staging, or a preview site. They make the site activity feed and reports easier to understand without creating separate DeployMonitor site's for each target.

Understand the Production environment

Every site has a primary Production environment. DeployMonitor creates it automatically and keeps its URL synchronized with the site's URL in site > Settings > General.

The primary environment cannot be deleted. Change the site's URL in General settings when the Production URL needs to change.

Create an environment

Site Developers and Administrators can create environments:

  1. Open the site.
  2. Select Settings, then Environments.
  3. Select New environment.
  4. Enter a descriptive name, such as Staging, and its URL.
  5. Save the environment.

DeployMonitor generates a URL-friendly slug from the name. Each active environment in a site must have a unique slug and normalized URL.

Environments do not create additional uptime monitors. The site's monitor continues to check the primary site URL. Environments are used to classify site logs and maintenance records.

Delete an environment

Only a site Administrator can delete a non-primary environment. Open Settings > Environments, find the environment, and choose its delete action.

Deleting an environment prevents it from being selected for new activity. Existing logs and maintenance records retain their historical environment association. The primary Production environment cannot be deleted.

The current interface supports creating and deleting non-primary environments, but it does not edit them. If a non-primary environment's details are wrong, an Administrator can delete it and create the correct environment while historical records retain the old association.

Troubleshooting

  • Environments is missing from Settings: site Members cannot manage environments. Ask an Administrator to change your role if appropriate.
  • You cannot delete an environment: only Administrators can delete, and Production is protected.
  • The name or URL is rejected: use a distinct name and URL that are not already active in this site.
  • A log is not assigned: choose the environment explicitly when creating the log, or use a source URL matching the environment URL.