How To Add a Monitor in Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma allows you to monitor many different types of services and endpoints. You can uptime on various HTTP or HTTPS URLs, supports keyword monitoring, TCP port checks, DNS record monitoring and much more, this is just the tip of what Uptime Kuma offers.

Due to the straightforward and beautiful user interface, adding a single monitor or multiple monitors in Uptime Kuma is easy. This guide focuses to show you how to add a monitor in Uptime Kuma and different types of monitors as well.

Top Monitors in Uptime Kuma

Below are some of the most popular monitor types our users seem to use in Uptime Kuma.

  1. HTTP/HTTPS: This monitor is used for monitoring HTTP and HTTPS connections, these are URLs, for example: https://uptimekuma.org.
  2. Ping Monitoring: You can ping websites or IP addresses and a nice graph shows the latency easily interpretable.
  3. Steam Game Servers: Are you hosting your own gaming server locally at home? It can now be monitored too from directly within Uptime Kuma.
  4. DNS Records: Do you have a critical DNS such as a mail record that you need to monitor in case it goes down and causes issues? This is also available.
  5. HTTPS Keyword Monitoring: If you want to know if a specific keyword is being displayed on your web page, you can do so by adding a keyword monitor.
  6. Push Monitor: If you have a service or server that is hosted on a private network, you can use a Push Monitor to check on its health.
  7. Port Monitoring: You can monitor any TCP port for a service you have running on your server with Uptime Kuma. For example, you can monitor Port 3306 for your MySQL server and get an alert notification when it goes down.

Prerequisites

Before you follow the guide below, please make sure you meet the prerequisites below:

  1. Uptime Kuma downloaded and Installed.

Adding a Monitor in Uptime Kuma

This is a very simple process to accomplish in Uptime Kuma, follow the steps below:

1: Log into your Uptime Kuma Dashboard.

2: Now click on the “+ Add New Monitor” green button on the top left of the dashboard.

Add a monitor in Uptime Kuma

3: Here you will see different fields you can fill including Monitor Type, Friendly Name, URL and more including heartbeat intervals and retries before an alert is activated.

Saving a monitor in Uptime Kuma

4: Once you have filled the information in the monitor page, please click on the small “save” button on the bottom of the page and that is it!

5: You have now successfully added a monitor in Uptime Kuma and your server or network is now being monitored for downtime.