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Quickstart

From sign-up to your first monitor, your first page and a public status page in about ten minutes.

Updated October 27, 2026

Pulseback watches your services, pages whoever is on call when one fails, and keeps your customers posted. This guide gets all three working.

1. Create a workspace

Sign up with your email. You get a workspace on the Free plan, with you as its admin, a default escalation policy that pages you, and default notification rules: a push notification right away and an email a minute later.

No credit card is needed. You can start a paid plan’s free trial later from Settings → Billing.

2. Add your first monitor

Open Monitors → New monitor, choose HTTP, and paste a URL you care about, such as https://api.example.com/health.

The defaults are a good start:

  • Regions: US East, EU West and Asia Pacific
  • Confirmations: 2, so two regions must fail, and fail again on an immediate re-check, before anything pages
  • Timeout: 10 seconds
  • Interval: 5 minutes, or faster on paid plans

Click Test now to run the check from every region before you save. See Monitors & check types for the other eight check types.

3. Make sure the page reaches you

Install the Pulseback mobile app and sign in so push notifications reach your phone. Then open your account settings and choose Send me a test page. Every channel in your notification rules fires once, and you can acknowledge from the notification.

4. Invite your team

In Settings → Members, invite the people who take shifts as responders. Invite everyone else, such as support, leadership and stakeholders, as viewers: they can follow every incident and they’re free on every plan.

On plans with rotations, create a schedule in On-call and point your escalation policy at it, so alerts go to whoever is on call now. See On-call & escalation.

5. Publish a status page

Open Status pages → New status page, add components like “API” and “Dashboard”, and link each to its monitors. The page updates itself as monitors change state, and you can post updates from any incident.

It’s live at https://status.pulseback.io/<your-page> right away. To use your own domain, see Status pages & custom domains.

6. Connect the rest of your stack