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Learn how Firewatch routes alerts, manages on-call coverage, escalates missed pages, and keeps responders informed.

Get started

Configure your profile, service, schedule, escalation policy, and first alert. Follow the setup path.

Understand alert routing

Learn how services, schedules, escalation policies, and notification channels determine who is contacted. Read the alert lifecycle.

Connect integrations

Configure alert sources and outbound email, Slack, SMS, voice, and webhook delivery. Review integrations.

Build with the API

Discover the versioned REST API and its generated OpenAPI contract. Open the API guide.

Operate a self-hosted installation

Install the complete product with Docker Compose and configure the services you operate. Open the self-hosting guide.

  1. Understand the alert lifecycle from ingestion through acknowledgement, escalation, and resolution.
  2. Create a service, schedule, and escalation policy that reflect your actual responder coverage.
  3. Connect an alert source and configure the delivery channels you operate.
  4. Send a test alert and verify acknowledgement, escalation, and recovery before relying on the system for production paging.

Firewatch is under active development. Evaluate the current release against your organization’s availability, security, and compliance requirements.