> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: /docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> Connect your stack, turn on Auto Monitors, and see your first monitored change.

Ordyn is free to start and needs no credit card. Setup takes about 15 minutes.

**1. Create your account**

Sign up at [app.ordyn.dev](/sign-in) and create or join a workspace.

**2. Connect GitHub**

Go to **Connections**, connect GitHub, and install the Ordyn GitHub App on the repositories you want covered. Pick a **default repository** in the GitHub settings. Auto Monitors works on that repository.

GitHub is required. It is how Ordyn reads your code, reviews pull requests, and opens fixes.

**3. Connect Slack**

Connect Slack and authorize the Ordyn app. Ordyn posts alerts and investigations to the channels you choose and responds when you mention it.

**4. Connect your observability**

Connect at least one source Ordyn can read: Sentry, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud, or another from the [integrations list](/integrations/overview). Ordyn uses these to investigate alerts and to create monitors.

**5. Turn on Auto Monitors**

Open **Detect** and follow the setup. You will name your production environment, grant Ordyn access to create monitors, and pick the Slack channel where alerts should go. See [Set up Auto Monitors](/detect/setup).

If you want to watch Ordyn without changing your existing alert channels, route alerts to a new channel first. See [Shadow mode](/shadow-mode).

**6. Open a pull request**

Nothing happens until the next pull request opens. When it does, Ordyn reviews it and lists the monitors that change needs, plus anything the code is missing to make them possible.

**7. Deploy**

When the change reaches production, Ordyn waits for real traffic, sets thresholds from it, creates the monitors, and confirms the deploy is healthy. See [Deploys](/detect/deploys).

> [!TIP]
>
> From here on, alerts that reach Slack come with impact, root cause, and a fix attached.

## Try an investigation now

You do not have to wait for an alert. In any Slack channel where Ordyn is present:

```text theme={null}
@Ordyn why are checkout requests failing?
```

Or open **Investigations** in the app and ask there. See [Investigate on demand](/slack/investigate-on-demand).


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