# Monitoring and alerts

nimo keeps watching after the first audit. It checks speed on a schedule, checks uptime every few minutes, and tells you when something needs attention.

Canonical URL: https://heynimo.com/docs/monitoring
Markdown URL: https://heynimo.com/docs/monitoring.md

## AI summary

Explains scheduled performance audits, degradation alerts, uptime checks every five minutes, incident status, batched notifications, and quiet hours.

## Key points

- Scheduled audits build history and detect regressions.
- Uptime checks run every five minutes.
- Notifications are batched and quiet during 10pm to 8am Pacific unless urgent.

## Sections

### Scheduled audits

- Scheduled audits build the history nimo needs to spot regressions.
- Use weekly audits for sites that change occasionally.
- Use daily audits for important pages, frequent deployments, paid traffic, checkout, lead capture, or client reporting.
- Use manual audits when you make a change and want a before-after check.

### Degradation alerts

- nimo compares recent audits with previous results and alerts when metrics move beyond normal noise.
- The alert explains what changed and what to check first.
- Good prompt: Why did this alert fire, and what changed on the page?

### Uptime checks

- Uptime starts automatically when you add a site. nimo checks every five minutes.
- Up means the site responded.
- Degraded means the site responded, but slowly.
- Down means the site timed out, had DNS trouble, or returned a server error.
- A 4xx response counts as reachable because many CDNs and WAFs reject automated requests even when the site is alive.

### Quiet hours

- Uptime notifications are batched for 90 seconds so one user does not get a message for every site at once.
- During 10pm to 8am Pacific time, non-urgent notifications wait unless an incident has lasted 30 minutes or more.
- nimo uses batching and a circuit breaker to avoid false notification storms.


## Related docs

- [Quick start](https://heynimo.com/docs) - Add a site, connect Telegram, and ask nimo what to fix first.
- [Set up a site](https://heynimo.com/docs/setup) - Add your site, pick a schedule, and understand what nimo checks.
- [Telegram](https://heynimo.com/docs/telegram) - Connect Telegram and use nimo from chat.
- [MCP for agents](https://heynimo.com/docs/mcp) - Use public docs MCP, or connect an authenticated MCP client to nimo.
- [Audits](https://heynimo.com/docs/audits) - Run audits and read Core Web Vitals without the jargon.