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Getting started
Crowswatch gives you one dashboard for the health of everything you depend on — third-party status pages, your own sites and APIs, your domains, and your cloud stack. This guide takes you from sign-up to your first monitors.
1. Create your account
Crowswatch is currently invite-only. To sign up at /signup you'll need:
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Invite code | Format CROW-XXXX-XXXX, from your team or the Crowswatch team |
| Work email | Used to sign in and receive alerts |
| Password | At least 8 characters |
| Website / domain | The primary domain you want to keep an eye on |
| Your name & company | Names your first workspace |
After submitting, check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your address. You can also sign up or sign in with Continue with Google.
2. Set up your workspace
The first time you sign in, a short onboarding wizard runs:
- Workspace — name your organization and your first team (defaults to “General”).
- Services — on the “Which services do you depend on?” step, pick the third-party services you rely on. You can accept the ones we detected from your domain, choose your own, or Skip for now.
Then you land on your dashboard. If you entered a website during sign-up, we set the workspace up for you automatically and skip the wizard.
How Crowswatch is organised
A quick model of the core concepts:
- Organization — the top-level account that holds your subscription.
- Team — a workspace inside an organization. All monitors, integrations, and alerts belong to a team.
- Members — the people in a team, each with a role (owner, admin, or member).
Your first team is created automatically with you as its owner. If you belong to more than one team, use the team switcher at the top of the dashboard sidebar to move between them. Everything you configure is scoped to the active team.
3. Add your first monitors
From the dashboard sidebar you can set up any of these — start with whichever matters most:
| Feature | What it does | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Status Pages | Watch the public status of services you depend on | Status Pages → Add Services |
| Web & API Checks | Monitor your own URLs and API endpoints | Web & API Checks |
| Domain Health | Scan DNS, SSL, DMARC and expiry for your domains | Domain Health |
| Integrations | Pull live metrics from Cloudflare, Akamai and more | Integrations |
| Alerts | Get notified by email or Slack when something breaks | Alerts |