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Guides for setting up monitors, alerts, status pages and heartbeats, for the API and billing, and for fixing false alerts.
Common tasks
41 guides · Last updated 17 October 2026
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Getting started with FastPing
Create your account, add your first monitor, choose who gets alerted and publish a status page, one step at a time.
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How checks, incidents and alerts work
Where FastPing checks run from, how often they run, how a failure is confirmed before you are alerted, what each status means and how uptime is calculated.
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Choosing a monitor type
All FastPing monitor types compared: what each one tests, what you enter, default ports, minimum intervals and which types need an add-on.
Browse by topic
17 guides
Monitor types
How each check works, its settings, examples and the errors you may see.
Websites & APIs
Domains & security
Mail servers
Game servers
3 guides
Getting started
Create an account, add monitors and understand how checks and alerts work.
7 guides
Alerts & notifications
Email, Discord, Slack, Telegram and webhook alerts.
4 guides
Status pages & embeds
Public status pages, custom domains, maintenance, incidents, badges and widgets.
4 guides
Account, team & security
Sign-in, passwords, team members, domain verification, data export and deletion.
2 guides
Plans & billing
Plans, the configurator, upgrades, cancellation and refunds.
1 guide
API & automation
API keys, endpoints and scripts that manage monitors for you.
3 guides
Troubleshooting
False alerts, firewalls, error messages and game servers that do not answer.
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More resources
- API documentation Endpoints, authentication, monitor types and the webhook payload.
- Free network tools 17 tools that run from the same server as the monitors.
- Use cases and game servers What to monitor for websites, APIs, mail and game servers.
- FastPing system status Whether the monitoring engine is running right now.
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