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Guides

Task-oriented instructions for setting up APIContext, building monitors, and acting on what they find. New to APIContext? Start with Monitor your first API.

The guides are grouped by task. Each group starts with the page most people need first.

GroupUse it toStart with
Projects, team, and accessSet up projects and organizations, invite people, and copy or move resourcesProjects
Create monitorsAdd API, browser, MCP, and Postman monitors, or import them from a specAdd an API monitor
AuthenticationGive monitors the credentials, tokens, and certificates an API needsMonitor Authentication
Workflows, variables, and assertionsChain calls, pass values between them, and decide what counts as a passWorkflows
Schedule and run monitorsRun monitors on a schedule or on demand, pause them for maintenance, and add private nodesManaging Schedules
Results and analyticsRead results, dashboards, reports, and the CASC scoreUnderstanding the Results
Alerts and notificationsGet told when a monitor fails, by email, webhook, Slack, Teams, or PagerDutySetting Alerts
Conformance and SLOsCheck APIs against standards and specs, and track service-level objectivesConformance
Integrations and data exportSend results to observability tools and bring in third-party dataOrg-level Integrations
API and CLIAutomate APIContext from scripts, pipelines, and agentsInstall and set up the CLI
Help and supportFind answers, contact support, and follow platform statusFAQs

For what a monitor, workflow, or result is, see Concepts. For every endpoint and field, see the API reference and the CLI reference.