Getting started

SiteAudit Documentation

SiteAudit checks your websites from multiple geographic regions and alerts you the moment something goes wrong.

Creating your account

  1. 1. Sign up with your name, email address, and a password.
  2. 2. Verify your email address via the link sent to your inbox.
  3. 3. You'll land on your monitor list, ready to add your first site.

When you register, SiteAudit automatically creates a personal team for you. Everything in SiteAudit — monitors, alerts, and status pages — belongs to a team.

Adding your first monitor

  1. 1. Click Add Monitor on your monitor list.
  2. 2. Enter the full URL you want to monitor (e.g. https://yoursite.com).
  3. 3. Give the monitor a name.
  4. 4. Choose a check interval and one or more regions.
  5. 5. Add notification email addresses for alerts.
  6. 6. Click Save.

After saving, your monitor shows a status of Pending. The first check runs within your chosen interval.

Monitors

Monitoring your sites

A monitor is a URL that SiteAudit checks at a regular interval. SiteAudit visits the URL, records how long it takes to respond, and alerts you if your site goes down or comes back up.

Check intervals

How often SiteAudit checks your URL depends on your plan. Faster intervals are available on higher plans.

  • Every 10 minutes — all plans
  • Every 5 minutes — all plans
  • Every 1 minute — Pro and above
  • Every 30 seconds — Business and Agency

Check regions

SiteAudit can check your URL from multiple geographic locations simultaneously, helping you spot regional outages. Available locations: London, New York, San Francisco, Frankfurt, Sydney.

If you select multiple regions and one fails while others succeed, the monitor status becomes Degraded rather than Down.

Monitor statuses

pending

Just created — no checks have run yet.

up

Your site responded successfully.

degraded

Multi-region monitor where at least one region is failing but not all of them.

down

Your site returned an error or couldn't be reached.

paused

Monitoring is paused. No checks are running and no alerts will fire.

Monitor detail page

Click any monitor to open its detail page. You'll find a world map with per-region status, a response time chart, a 24-hour uptime timeline, and a check history log. The page updates in real time as new checks come in.

Pausing a monitor

Pausing stops all checks and suppresses alerts. Use this during planned maintenance so you don't receive false alarms. Resume the monitor at any time to restart checks.

Alerts

Getting notified

SiteAudit notifies you when a monitor changes status — when it goes down, and again when it recovers. Alerts fire on status transitions only, not on every failed check.

Email alerts — all plans

When creating or editing a monitor, add up to 6 email addresses in the notification emails field. Each address receives an alert when the monitor goes down and a separate recovery alert when it comes back up.

Slack alerts — Pro, Business, and Agency

Configure a Slack Incoming Webhook at Settings → Team. All monitors in the team share one Slack connection. When any monitor changes status, a message is posted to your chosen channel.

Webhook alerts — Business and Agency

Configure a webhook URL at Settings → Team. SiteAudit sends a notification to that URL whenever any monitor in the team changes status, letting you connect to PagerDuty, custom scripts, or any other service.

Status pages

Sharing your uptime

A status page is a public (or private) webpage that shows the live health of your selected monitors. Share the URL with your users so they always have somewhere to check when they think something is wrong.

Creating a status page

  1. 1. Go to Status Pages in the sidebar.
  2. 2. Click Create status page.
  3. 3. Give it a name, choose visibility (public or private), and select monitors to display.
  4. 4. Choose a template and save.

Public vs private

Public pages are visible to anyone with the link. Private pages (Pro, Business, and Agency) show a password gate — visitors enter the password once and their session is remembered. Private pages are not indexed by search engines.

Customising your page

All plans can choose from four templates and add a Google Analytics Measurement ID. Paid plans can also upload a logo, set custom brand colours, and hide the SiteAudit attribution.

Plan limits

Plan Pages Private pages Custom branding
Free 1 public page — —
Pro, Business, Agency Up to 4 pages ✓ ✓

Teams

Collaborating with your team

Teams are the central organising unit in SiteAudit. Monitors, billing, status pages, and alert settings all belong to a team. When you register, a personal team is created automatically.

Inviting members

  1. 1. Go to Settings → Members.
  2. 2. Click Invite member, enter their email, and choose a role.
  3. 3. They receive an invitation link by email. Once they accept, they join the team.

Team roles

Owner Full access: settings, billing, members, monitors, and status pages.
Admin Manage team settings and members, create and cancel invitations.
Member View-only access to team settings; can view monitors and status pages.

Billing

Plans and pricing

Billing is per team. Each team has its own subscription. Annual plans include 2 months free.

Plan Monitors Fastest check Regions / monitor Alerts Status pages
Free 3 5 min 1 Email 1 public page
Pro 10 1 min 2 Email, Slack 4 pages
Business 50 30 sec 5 Email, Slack, webhooks 4 pages
Agency Unlimited 30 sec Unlimited Email, Slack, webhooks 4 pages

Upgrading

Go to the Pricing page from the sidebar, choose a plan and billing cycle, and you'll be taken to Stripe Checkout. After payment you're returned to your monitors immediately. Promotion codes can be applied at checkout.

Managing your subscription

Go to the Pricing page and click Manage billing to open the Stripe billing portal. From there you can change your plan, update your payment method, download invoices, or cancel.

Account

Account settings

Your account settings are available under Settings in the sidebar.

Profile

Go to Settings → Profile to update your display name and email address. If you change your email, you'll need to verify the new address before it takes effect.

Two-factor authentication

Go to Settings → Security to enable two-factor authentication (2FA). During setup, scan a QR code with an authenticator app — Google Authenticator, Authy, and 1Password all work. Confirm with the code your app generates and 2FA is active on your next login.

When you enable 2FA, SiteAudit generates 8 recovery codes. Save these somewhere safe — each can only be used once. You can regenerate them at any time from Security settings.

Appearance

Go to Settings → Appearance to switch between Light, Dark, or System theme. System follows your operating system's preference.

Deleting your account

Go to Settings and scroll to the danger zone. Deleting your account is permanent — it removes your personal team and all its data, and removes you from any other teams. You'll be asked to confirm your password before anything is deleted.