Quickstart

Get your first monitor running in minutes. This guide walks you through signing up, creating your first API monitor, and installing the server agent.

Step 1: Create Your Account

Head to app.sysmos.org and sign up for a free account. You'll be asked to create an organization — this is the top-level container for all your monitors, servers, and team members.

Step 2: Create an API Monitor

1. Navigate to API Monitors in the dashboard sidebar
2. Click Create Monitor
3. Enter the URL you want to monitor (e.g., https://api.example.com/health)
4. Select the regions you want to monitor from (e.g., US East, EU West, AP Southeast)
5. Set the check interval (default: 60 seconds)
6. Click Save

Your monitor will start running checks immediately. You'll see response times, status codes, and availability data within a few minutes.

Step 3: Set Up Alerts

1. Go to Settings → Notifications
2. Connect your preferred channels:
   • Slack — Add the Sysmos bot to your workspace
   • Discord — Paste your webhook URL
   • Email — Verified automatically with your account email
   • PagerDuty — Enter your integration key
   • Webhook — Provide any custom HTTP endpoint
3. Configure alert rules on your monitor (e.g., alert when response time exceeds 2 seconds)

Step 4: Install the Server Agent

For server-level monitoring, install the Sysmos agent on your Linux servers:

curl -fsSL https://get.sysmos.org/install.sh | sudo bash

The installer will:

• Download the latest agent binary
• Create a systemd service
• Set the required Linux capabilities for eBPF
• Prompt you for your API key (found in Settings → API Keys)

Once installed, your server will appear in the Servers section of the dashboard within 30 seconds.

Next Steps

• Dashboard Overview — Learn your way around the UI
• Server Agent Configuration — Customize what the agent collects
• Monitor Configuration — Advanced monitor settings
• Integrations — Connect Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, and more