> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tallwatch.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Set up uptime monitoring, alerts, escalation, on-call, and status pages. Practical guides for every part of Tallwatch.

Tallwatch watches your sites and APIs from several regions and tells you when they go down. A check has to fail in more than one region before Tallwatch opens an incident, so a single flaky vantage point doesn't page you at 3am. When something does break, the alert goes wherever you've set it to: Slack, email, a webhook, PagerDuty, or an on-call rotation.

These docs are task-focused. Each page walks you through setting one thing up in the dashboard. Pick a section below.

## Set up Tallwatch

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    Add HTTP checks, pick regions and intervals, and set assertions,
    dependencies, and maintenance windows.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Incidents" icon="https://mintcdn.com/tallwatch/F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz/icons/alert.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz&q=85&s=15fe2e8b6c7f607d2b7773ebf8509aaa" href="/incidents" width="24" height="24" data-path="icons/alert.svg">
    Acknowledge, resolve, and understand when an alert is held back on purpose.
  </Card>

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    Connect Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, email, PagerDuty, or a webhook.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Escalation policies" icon="https://mintcdn.com/tallwatch/F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz/icons/route.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz&q=85&s=b78f343a4763822e3878b61275529e54" href="/escalation-policies" width="24" height="24" data-path="icons/route.svg">
    Build ordered levels that keep paging until someone acknowledges.
  </Card>

  <Card title="On-call schedules" icon="https://mintcdn.com/tallwatch/F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz/icons/calendar.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz&q=85&s=8184d5dcc4e0d4e365434ec657eec601" href="/on-call" width="24" height="24" data-path="icons/calendar.svg">
    Set up rotations, overrides, and who's responsible when.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Status pages" icon="https://mintcdn.com/tallwatch/F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz/icons/globe.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz&q=85&s=0d9e1420faf63fb95a88a6ac62e2f137" href="/status-pages/overview" width="24" height="24" data-path="icons/globe.svg">
    Publish uptime and incident updates on your own domain.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API keys" icon="https://mintcdn.com/tallwatch/F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz/icons/code.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=F-dDcxhw3J2Q0xWz&q=85&s=47b21828be94b95c89fe565d9f1ee8a3" href="/api/api-keys" width="24" height="24" data-path="icons/code.svg">
    Drive Tallwatch from scripts, CI, the MCP server, or Terraform with a scoped
    Bearer key.
  </Card>
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<Note>
  Tallwatch is pre-1.0. HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, DNS, and keyword checks run end-to-end
  today; SSL, ping, and heartbeat are still preview. Where a feature is partial,
  the page says so instead of implying it's finished.
</Note>
