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Enterprise-grade uptime for distributed systems

Last updated: Nov 14, 2023 • Read time: 4 min

Account Setup & Verification

Create your workspace and verify your email to unlock the full monitoring suite.

Follow these three steps to provision your tenant and configure initial alert routing before deploying checks.

Register Workspace

Navigate to portal.sentinelpulse.com/register. Use your corporate domain (e.g., acme-corp.io) to auto-configure SSO if available, or select manual OAuth provisioning.

Verify Email Address

Check your inbox for the confirmation link from noreply@sentinelpulse.com. Click it within 24 hours to activate your tenant. If using DMARC/SPF strict policies, whitelist our sending domain.

Configure Alert Routing

Head to Settings > Notifications. Connect your primary PagerDuty integration key or configure Slack webhook URLs for real-time incident dispatch.

Deploy Your First HTTP Monitor

Spin up a production-grade endpoint check in under 60 seconds.

Click Monitors > New Check in the left sidebar. Select HTTP(S) Status as the protocol. Enter your production API gateway URL (e.g., https://api.yourapp.com/v2/health). Set the interval to 30s and enable TLS certificate expiry tracking.

Toggle Multi-region Probes to distribute checks across Ashburn (US-EAST-1), Frankfurt (EU-CENTRAL-1), and Singapore (AP-SOUTHEAST-1). This ensures geographic latency detection and failover validation.

{
  "monitor_id": "mon_8f3a2c91",
  "type": "http",
  "target": "https://api.yourapp.com/v2/health",
  "interval_sec": 30,
  "expected_status": [200, 201],
  "regions": ["us-east-1", "eu-central-1", "ap-southeast-1"],
  "tls_alert_days": 14,
  "alert_channels": ["slack-ops-main", "pagerduty-critical"]
}

Pro Tip: Use custom headers for authenticated health endpoints.

Next Steps

Scale your observability stack with these recommended configurations.

Advanced Probe Logic

Implement JSON payload validation, regex response matching, and custom downtime thresholds for complex microservices.

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Team Access Control

Assign RBAC roles (Admin, Observer, Incident Commander) and configure SAML 2.0 for enterprise directory sync.

Configure RBAC

Status Page Integration

Sync monitor states to your public incident.io or Atlassian Statuspage dashboard via our REST API.

Connect Status Page

99.99%

Avg. Check Uptime

12s

Mean Alert Latency

Global Probe Nodes