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Getting started

Create your workspace

Sign up, set up your first on-call path, and send a test alert — in about five minutes.

A WarnFire workspace is your team’s private home. It holds your people, your on-call calendar, and your alerts. Nothing in it is shared with anyone else.

This page walks you from nothing to your first test alert.

1. Sign up

  1. Go to app.warnfire.com/signup.
  2. Choose Create account and fill in:
    • Your name — how you’ll appear to your team.
    • Organization — your company or team name, for example Acme Platform.
    • Organization URL name — a short, lowercase version of your organization name, like acme-platform. WarnFire uses it in web addresses.
    • Email and a password of at least 12 characters.
  3. Press Create trial workspace.

If your workspace asks you to verify your email, check your inbox and click the link before signing in.

2. Set up your first response path

The first time you sign in, WarnFire shows a short setup form called “Page the right person in minutes.” It asks three simple questions:

  1. Who should receive the first page? Enter a name and email. This person is your first responder — someone who can be alerted when things break.
  2. When are they on call? Give the schedule a name, pick your timezone, and choose a daily handoff time. (With one person, they’re simply always on call — you can add more people later.)
  3. What should raise an incident? Name the service you’re protecting, for example Production website.

Press Create response path →. WarnFire creates everything at once — if any part fails, nothing half-finished is saved.

3. Copy your integration key

When setup finishes, WarnFire shows you an integration key. This is a secret code that lets your monitoring system (the software that watches your website or servers) report problems to WarnFire.

Copy it now. For safety, WarnFire shows a key only once. If you lose it, you can create a replacement at any time under Configuration → Services.

Treat the key like a password: store it somewhere safe, and never paste it into chat messages or web addresses.

4. Send a test alert

On the same screen, press Send test event.

Within a few seconds you should see a new incident appear in your workspace — and the on-call responder gets paged, exactly as they would for a real problem.

A test alert is a real alert. It follows the same path a genuine emergency would, including notifying whoever is on call. That’s the point — you’re proving the whole chain works.

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