# uptime-monitors

> Claude/Codex skill by [@betterstackhq](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/index.md) · 4 stars · Updated 2026-10-23

Reference for Better Stack Uptime monitors and escalation policies — monitor types, valid configuration values, how escalation policies work, and the limits of what the monitor tools can do. Load before using create\_monitor, create\_heartbeat, monitors, monitor, escalation\_policies or escalation\_policy.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/BetterStackHQ/claude-plugin /tmp/claude-plugin && ln -s /tmp/claude-plugin/skills/uptime-monitors ~/.claude/skills/uptime-monitors
```

## From README

Uptime monitors & escalation policies What the Uptime tools can do, the non-obvious rules, and where the limits are. A monitor is one Uptime check against a URL or host; when a check fails it opens an incident and alerts whoever the monitor's escalation policy routes it to. Tools at a glance monitors, monitor — read monitors. monitoravailability, monitorresponsetimes — a monitor's availability and response times, per region. createmonitor — create a monitor. createheartbeat — create a heartbeat (below). escalationpolicies, escalationpolicy — read escalation policies (who gets paged). Show the user what you are about to create and get a yes before calling a create tool: a new monitor starts checking, and alerting, right away. There is no update, pause/resume or delete tool. You can create and read monitors, but not edit one in place (change its URL, frequency, alerting, etc.), pause, resume or remove it. You can read escalation policies but not create/edit them.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/claude-plugin/skills/uptime-monitors/
- GitHub: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ/claude-plugin
- Author: [@betterstackhq](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/index.md)

## More from this repo

- [chart-alerts](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/claude-plugin/skills/chart-alerts/index.md) — Guide for creating and managing Better Stack chart alerts.
   - [@betterstackhq](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/index.md) · 4 stars
- [chart-generation](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/claude-plugin/skills/chart-generation/index.md) — Complete reference for chart types, units, and settings on Better Stack dashboards.
   - [@betterstackhq](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/index.md) · 4 stars
- [chart-styling](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/claude-plugin/skills/chart-styling/index.md) — Better Stack chart styling and advanced settings reference - series colors and order, number chart coloring thresholds,...
   - [@betterstackhq](https://omgskills.com/library/betterstackhq/index.md) · 4 stars