Quickstart

This guide gets you from zero to your first alert in a few minutes. You’ll create an account, add a monitor, and connect an alert channel.

1. Create your account

Sign up at app.spectrabolt.com — the Free plan needs no credit card. You can start monitoring immediately.

2. Add your first monitor

Create a new monitor and choose a type. For a website, pick Website / HTTP, then set:

• URL — the page or endpoint to check (e.g. https://yoursite.com).
• Check interval — how often Spectra checks it.
• Regions — where the checks run from (choose regions close to your users).
• Optionally a keyword that must be present, so you catch a broken page that still returns 200.

Save, and Spectra begins checking right away.

3. Connect an alert channel

Add a channel — Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, email, or a webhook — and attach it to the monitor. Now, when a check fails (confirmed from multiple regions), Spectra opens an incident and notifies that channel. See Alert channels.

4. Publish a status page (optional)

Turn your monitors into a public, branded status page so customers can see status without contacting support.

Next steps

• Set up on-call & escalation so alerts reach the right person.
• Add more monitor types: API, heartbeat/cron, SSL.
• Automate with the REST API.