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Install & sign up

Create a workspace, verify your email, and configure basic workspace settings.

Sign up

Navigate to /signup. You can sign up with:

  • Email + password: enter your email, choose a password, and verify via the confirmation email.
  • Google OAuth: click Continue with Google and authorise the connection.

Workspace name vs. status page URLs

During sign-up you choose a workspace name (for example Acme Ops). It is a free-text display label — shown in the dashboard header, emails, and invitations — and must be unique across the whole platform, so sign-up fails if the name is already taken; try a more specific variant. You can rename it any time under Settings → Workspace with no side effects: the name is not slugified, does not appear in any URL, and is not referenced in the audit log (which records your workspace by an internal ID, not by name).

Public URLs come from a separate, per-status-page slug, generated only when you create a status page:

  • The slug is derived from that status page's own name (lowercase, letters and digits only, everything else collapsed to a hyphen), with a short random suffix always appended — for example Acme Cloud Status becomes /status-page/acme-cloud-status-7c0f31. The suffix is added every time, not only when two names collide, so a page's URL can never be guessed from another page's URL.
  • It is assigned once, at creation, and never changes afterward — renaming the status page later updates its display name only, not its URL.
  • It is globally unique across every workspace on HowlOps (the public route is not scoped per tenant), and it is what the public REST API uses to address the page (GET /api/v1/public/status-pages/<slug>).

See First status page to create one.

Email verification

After sign-up, a verification email is sent to your address. Click the link inside. The link expires after 24 hours.

If you do not receive it:

  1. Check your spam or promotions folder.
  2. Go to Settings → Profile and click Resend verification email.

First login

After verification you are taken to the onboarding wizard which guides you through:

  1. Adding your first monitor.
  2. Connecting a notification channel.
  3. (Optional) Inviting teammates.

You can skip the wizard at any time; all steps are available from the sidebar.

Invite teammates

Workspace owners and admins can invite additional members:

  1. Go to Settings → Team.
  2. Click Invite member and enter their email address.
  3. Choose a role: Owner, Admin, or Member.
  4. Click Send invitation.

The invitee receives an email with an accept link. Accepted invitations are visible in the Team list immediately.

RoleCapabilities
OwnerFull access, billing, workspace deletion
AdminMonitors, heartbeats, on-call, integrations
MemberView monitors and incidents; acknowledge incidents

Who can do what

The table above covers the three built-in system roles. Larger or more security-conscious organizations often need finer-grained access than that — for example a read-only auditor or an incident-only responder — so define a custom role under Settings → Roles instead of stretching Member's permissions. Custom roles are available on every plan today; the full permission matrix, including how to assign one when you invite a teammate, is in the roles and permissions reference.

Security settings

After sign-up, consider enabling these under Settings → Security:

  • Two-factor authentication (2FA): TOTP-based (Google Authenticator, 1Password, etc.)
  • Session management: view active sessions and revoke them remotely
  • SSO (any paid plan): connect your Identity Provider; see Configure SAML SSO

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