Add & edit sites — field by field

Open Sites → Add site, or click Edit on a site detail page. The form is grouped into blocks; only Basic info is required.

#Basic info

Name: for display — pick something you'll recognize at a glance (e.g. "Main site", "API").
URL: the full URL. Any path works, not just the homepage; https sites also get a certificate check for free.

#Monitoring

Field	Meaning	Suggestion
Check interval	How often to check	Low tiers (1–2 min) for critical sites; 5 min for the rest
Timeout	How long without a response counts as failure	Default 15s; raise it for cross-border sites
Consecutive failures	Failures in a row before an incident	Default 3; raise for sites prone to false alarms
Keyword	Words the page must contain / must not contain	One stable marker word each is enough

#Advanced (optional)

Request method / headers / body: switch to POST and add headers like Authorization when monitoring APIs.
Accept-Language: for multilingual sites — pin which language version to fetch.
Fetch channel: route the check through a specific proxy or your own node (see Vantage points & proxies).
Internal site: sites resolving to internal IPs are blocked by safety rules by default; mark it here only if the internal network is yours.

Note

Setting Consecutive failures to 1 sharply increases false alarms; 10 can delay detection of a real incident by half an hour. When in doubt, keep the default.

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