# Uptime – DigitalOcean Documentation

> Check the health of URLs, hostnames, and IP addresses, and set alerts for latency, downtime, and expired SSL certificates



## Getting Started with Uptime

Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.

- [Uptime Monitoring Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/getting-started/quickstart/index.html.md): Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes.

## Uptime How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

- [How to Create Checks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/how-to/create-checks/index.html.md): Create an Uptime check to start monitoring an endpoint's latency, uptime, and SSL certificate.
- [How to Edit Checks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/how-to/edit-checks/index.html.md): Edit an Uptime check to change endpoint details, check type, and regions.
- [How to Destroy Checks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/how-to/destroy-checks/index.html.md): Delete an Uptime check and any alerts associated with it.
- [How to Create Alerts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/how-to/create-alerts/index.html.md): Create an Uptime alert to receive notifications via email and Slack when a check is failing.
- [How to Edit Alerts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/how-to/edit-alerts/index.html.md): Edit alerts to change alert types, thresholds, and notification preferences.
- [How to Destroy Alerts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/how-to/destroy-alerts/index.html.md): Destroy an alert to stop monitoring a metric and receiving notifications for it.
- [How to View the Uptime Check Dashboard](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/how-to/view-dashboard/index.html.md): View the Uptime check dashboard for information on uptime, latency, and SSL certificates, as well as for configuring alerts.

## Uptime Details

Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.

- [Uptime Features](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/details/features/index.html.md): Uptime can check endpoints via HTTPS, HTTP, and ICMP, report on uptime status, latency, and SSL certificate expiry, and send alerts via email and Slack.
- [Uptime Pricing](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/details/pricing/index.html.md): Each Uptime check costs $1.00 per month, billed in hourly increments. There is no additional cost for alerts. Free Allowance Your invoice is credited with 1 free Uptime check per month. This appears as 672 hours of credit and is split between multiple …
- [Uptime Availability](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/details/availability/index.html.md): Regional datacenter availability for uptime.
- [Uptime Limits](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/uptime/details/limits/index.html.md): Limits and known issues for Uptime.