1. Set up your 1stmonitor account.
   Sign up for a membership subscription. 1stmonitor offers quick and easy sign-up through our globally accepted credit card partner
2. User names and passwords
   1stmonitor provides secure administration of the sites you wish to monitor. Only the subscription holder may edit monitoring functions. You may choose and change your user name and password as required.
3. Entering the URL’s you wish to monitor
   Depending on the Subscription level you choose, you may specify between 1 and 10 web pages to monitor at any one time. You may change the pages monitored at anytime.
4. Notification that the registered page in down
   You enter an email address for each web page you want monitored. This ensures the person responsible is informed of a problem.
5. Did you enter the right information? Is the page working?
   Once you have entered a URL and email address for the page you want monitored, 1stmonitor checks the address and keyword notification data. We check whether the host is up and for the presence of the selected keyword or phrase. You see the current status of the pages you wish to monitor immediately.
6. Monitoring/Reporting intervals
   You can set monitoring interval to 5, 15 or 60 minutes at anytime.
7. Graphical History Tracking
   Click on the history tracking bar to view site or service availability for the last day, week, month and year.
   

How monitoring works?

1. For every page to be checked, 1stmonitor sends a GET command. With this command, the entire monitored page is transferred to the monitoring station – just like a user was viewing the page. When a modification check is requested, 1stmonitor scans the page for the presence of the keywords. If keyword is not present, you receive an email notification message of the change.
2. When GET command gives an error – it was unable to get the page - 1stmonitor repeats the GET command two more times at 1minute intervals. If the 3rd GET ends with an error, 1stmonitor sends you an email notification message that the website is down.
3. 1stmonitor then continues to send GET command every 5 (15, 60) minutes. If problems persist you will be notified every 2 hours. After receiving a normal response from the GET command, 1stmonitor sends an email notification message informing you that the website is up again.