Smart Setup
When you add a new website, FlareWarden's Smart Setup automatically analyzes your site, detects content patterns to protect, discovers the third-party services your site depends on, and creates all your monitors in one guided flow.
Enter Website Details
Click Add Website on your dashboard to open Smart Setup. Enter your website details to get started.
- a. Website Name: A friendly name for your site (e.g., "Company Website")
- b. URL: The address to monitor (e.g., example.com or https://example.com)
- c. Check Interval: How often to check your site (30 seconds to 1 hour, depending on your plan)
- d. Group: Optionally assign the monitor to a group for organization
Tip: The URL field auto-prefixes
https:// if you paste a bare domain. Just type
example.com
and we'll handle the rest.
Automatic Analysis
After clicking Next, Smart Setup analyzes your website in four stages. You'll see progress indicators for each step as it completes.
Website Type Detection
Smart Setup automatically determines whether your URL is a website or an API endpoint. API endpoints skip the content monitoring step since they don't serve web pages.
Service Discovery
Smart Setup checks your domain and website to identify every third-party service your site depends on. It recognizes hundreds of services — including CDN providers, payment processors, analytics tools, and more. When a service is found through multiple methods, it's flagged with higher certainty.
Content Pattern Detection
For HTML websites, Smart Setup checks your live page for important content that should be monitored. Only patterns that are confirmed on your page are suggested. Detected patterns include:
Additional patterns may be added over time as Smart Setup learns to detect more protection opportunities.
Plan Limit Checks
Smart Setup checks your remaining content and dependency monitor quotas so you know exactly how many monitors you can add. If you're approaching your limit, you'll see a notification.
This step takes a few seconds and runs fully automatically. You'll see each stage update in real time as it completes.
Review Content Monitors
Smart Setup presents the auto-detected content monitors as a checklist. All detected patterns are pre-selected by default.
- Each monitor shows its name, severity badge, and a short description
- Uncheck any patterns you don't need
- Plan limits are enforced — checkboxes disable when you've reached your quota
For full details on each content check type, see the Content Monitors documentation.
Need more precise control? Use the Visual Content Picker to add additional monitors by pointing and clicking on specific elements on your pages — no CSS selectors needed.
Select Connected Services
Smart Setup shows every third-party service it found on your site. Each service includes a confidence score showing how certain Smart Setup is about the detection. High-confidence services in critical categories are automatically pre-selected to save you time.
Per-Dependency Configuration
After selecting your dependencies, Smart Setup walks through each one for configuration:
- Component selection — for services with rich status pages (like Atlassian StatusPage or AWS Health Dashboard), you can select specific components to monitor from a searchable, grouped list
- Severity toggle — choose Critical (marks your site as DOWN) or Degraded (marks as DEGRADED) for each component
- Check interval — set how often to check each dependency (filtered by your plan)
Note: FlareWarden recognizes hundreds of services by analyzing your website's DNS records and HTML. 40 have dedicated status page integrations for component-level monitoring. See the full integrations list.
Review and Create
The final step shows a summary of everything that will be created: your uptime monitor, selected content monitors, and configured dependency monitors.
- Progress is shown in real time as each monitor is created
- All monitors begin checking immediately after creation
- Safe to retry — if anything fails, click Create again without duplicating monitors
Status Page Offer
Create a branded status page in the same flow
After your monitors are created, Smart Setup offers to create a branded public status page for your website. This option appears when:
- Your URL is an HTML website (not an API endpoint)
- You haven't reached your plan's status page limit
The status page URL slug is automatically generated from your
domain name. For example,
acme.com
becomes
acme,
and
app.acme.co.uk
becomes
app-acme.
Multi-part TLDs like
.co.uk
are handled automatically.
Slug availability is verified before creation.
For more on customizing your status page, see the Status Pages documentation.
Auto-Detect for Existing Monitors
Smart Setup's auto-detection isn't limited to the initial setup. You can re-run it anytime on existing monitors:
- Content auto-detect — available on any monitor's Content tab. Discovers new patterns that may have been added since the monitor was created.
- Dependency auto-detect — available on any monitor's Dependencies tab. Finds new third-party services your site may have started using.
Items already being monitored are shown with an "Already monitored" badge so you can see what's new.