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# Next Steps

### Enable monitoring

StatusPal supports monitoring out-of-the-box, so we can be a replacement for tools like Pingdom, Datadog, and Newrelic when you have basic monitoring needs.

StatusPal monitoring can be useful for the following:

1. get an email alert when one of your services goes down.
2. Automate incident reporting on your status page.

To enable monitoring, click on Edit on a given service and scroll down to the "Monitoring and Incident Automation" section:

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### Custom domain configuration

To enable custom domain, click on `Status page` from the sidebar and scroll down to the "Domain name" section:

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Follow the full guide with more information at [Custom Domain](/platform/status-page-settings-and-design/custom-domain.md).