Getting Started with Encompass
Learn how to set up monitoring, alerting, and incident management for your team.
Quick Start
- 1
Create an account
Sign up at app.encompass.gg to get started with your free account.
- 2
Add your first monitor
Create a health check monitor for your website or API endpoint. We'll check it every 60 seconds by default.
- 3
Set up notifications
Connect Slack, Discord, or add email recipients to get alerted when something goes wrong.
- 4
Create a status page
Share your service status with users through a public status page with your custom branding.
Core Concepts
Encompass is built around a few core concepts that work together to give you complete visibility into your infrastructure:
- Monitors continuously check your endpoints and alert you when they go down.
- Heartbeats expect regular check-ins from your cron jobs and scheduled tasks.
- Incidents are created automatically when issues are detected, or manually by your team.
- On-Call Schedules ensure the right person is notified at the right time.
- Status Pages keep your users informed during outages and maintenance.
- Integrations send alerts to Slack, Discord, email, webhooks, and more.
Feature Guides
Monitors
Set up HTTP health checks for your endpoints and APIs
Heartbeats
Monitor cron jobs and scheduled tasks
Incidents
Manage and respond to incidents with your team
On-Call
Create schedules and escalation policies
Status Pages
Communicate with your users during outages
Integrations
Connect Slack, Discord, email, and more
Personal vs Organization Accounts
Encompass supports both individual users and team organizations:
1Personal Account
- Perfect for solo developers
- Monitors and heartbeats
- Status pages
- Basic integrations
👥Organization Account
- Team collaboration
- Incident management
- On-call schedules
- Escalation policies
- Role-based access control
💡 Pro Tip: To create an organization, click on your profile in the app and select "Create Organization". You can then invite team members and start collaborating.