# doctl monitoring uptime – DigitalOcean Documentation

> The sub-commands of `doctl uptime` manage your uptime checks.

DigitalOcean Uptime Checks provide the ability to monitor your endpoints from around the world,
and alert you when they're slow, unavailable, or SSL certificates are expiring.
- [doctl monitoring uptime create](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/create/index.html.md): Creates an uptime check on your account. Uptime checks monitor any endpoint that is accessible over HTTP, HTTPS, ping (ICMP). You can use this check to set up an alert policy using the `doctl monitoring uptime alert` commands.
- [doctl monitoring uptime delete](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/delete/index.html.md): Deletes an uptime check on your account.
- [doctl monitoring uptime get](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/get/index.html.md): Retrieves information about an uptime check on your account.
- [doctl monitoring uptime list](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/list/index.html.md): Retrieves a list of all of the uptime checks on your account.
- [doctl monitoring uptime update](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/update/index.html.md): Updates an uptime check on your account. All of these flags are required. Uptime checks cannot be disabled via `doctl`. You can only disable them using the control panel or the public API.



## doctl monitoring uptime alert

The sub-commands of `doctl monitoring uptime alert` manage your uptime alerts.

DigitalOcean Uptime Alerts provide the ability to monitor your endpoints from around the world,
and alert you when they're slow, unavailable, or SSL certificates are expiring.

In order to set up uptime alerts, you must first set up an uptime check. Uptime checks monitor and track the status of an endpoint while alerts notify you of status changes based on the thresholds you set.

- [doctl monitoring uptime alert create](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/create/index.html.md): Creates an alert policy for an uptime check. You can create an alert policy based on the following metrics: - `latency`: Alerts on the response latency. `--threshold` value is an integer representing milliseconds. - `down`: Alerts on whether the endpoints …
- [doctl monitoring uptime alert delete](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/delete/index.html.md): Deletes an uptime check on your account by ID.
- [doctl monitoring uptime alert get](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/get/index.html.md): Retrieves information about an uptime alert policy.
- [doctl monitoring uptime alert list](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/list/index.html.md): Retrieves a list of the alert policies for an uptime check.
- [doctl monitoring uptime alert update](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/monitoring/uptime/alert/update/index.html.md): Updates an uptime alert configuration.