Getting Started with Beacon

Visit Beacon and create an account. You'll land in your monitoring dashboard.

1. Click New monitor
2. Enter the URL you want to monitor (e.g. https://api.example.com/health)
3. Choose check frequency (every 1, 5, or 15 minutes)
4. Select regions (or use all 12)
5. Save

Beacon starts checking your service immediately from multiple regions.

When an outage is detected, Beacon needs to notify you:

1. Go to Alert settings
2. Enter your email and phone number
3. Choose notification methods (email, SMS, Slack, PagerDuty)
4. Set alert thresholds (how many region failures trigger an alert)

Now you'll be notified if your service goes down.

Your users want to know what's happening. Create a public status page:

1. Go to Status page settings
2. Click Create public page
3. Choose your status page domain (e.g. status.example.com)
4. Select which monitors to display

Your status page is now live and updates in real-time as monitors report health.

When an incident fires, your team needs a checklist. Add a runbook:

1. Go to Runbooks
2. Create a runbook for a critical service
3. List the steps to diagnose and fix the issue
4. Attach it to your monitor

When the monitor alerts, the runbook appears immediately.

• Read about Beacon's Features to learn more
• Check the Roadmap to see what's coming
• Set up anomaly detection to catch slow responses before they become outages