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Quick Start

This guide walks you through setting up CheckOps from sign-up to your first alert.

1. CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT

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Navigate to checkops.eu and sign up using:

  • Email + password
  • GitHub OAuth
  • GitLab OAuth

All authentication is handled through a dedicated Keycloak realm isolated from other ClearCloud services.

2. CREATE AN ORGANIZATION

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After signing in, you will be prompted to create an organization. Organizations are the top-level container for all your monitors, integrations, and team members.

Organization name: Acme Corp
Slug: acme-corp (auto-generated, must be unique)

You can invite team members later from the Members settings page.

3. ADD YOUR FIRST MONITOR

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From the dashboard, click Add Monitor and configure:

Field Example Notes
Name Production API Descriptive label
URL https://api.acme.com/health Full URL with protocol
Type HTTP/HTTPS Also supports TCP and Ping
Interval 60s Check frequency (30s minimum on PRO)
Regions Paris, Frankfurt Select from available EU regions

ASSERTIONS

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Add one or more assertions to define what “healthy” means:

- type: status_code
  operator: equals
  value: 200


- type: response_time
  operator: less_than
  value: 2000  # milliseconds


- type: body
  operator: contains
  value: '"status":"ok"'

4. VIEW YOUR DASHBOARD

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The dashboard shows all monitors in a dense, terminal-style layout:

  • Green — All assertions passing
  • Amber — SSL certificate expiring soon or degraded performance
  • Red — Monitor down or assertion failing

Each monitor card shows current status, uptime percentage, average response time, and last check timestamp.

5. SET UP ALERTS

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Navigate to Integrations to configure alert channels:

  • Webhooks — POST notifications to any endpoint
  • Slack — Channel notifications via webhook URL
  • PagerDuty / OpsGenie — Incident management integration

Alerts fire when a monitor transitions between UP, DEGRADED, and DOWN states. You can configure alert thresholds per monitor.

NEXT STEPS

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