Guides

Step-by-step tutorials to help you get the most out of Nova AI Ops. From first install to advanced workflows.

Getting Started

Everything you need to get Nova AI Ops running on your infrastructure.

How to Install the Nova AI Agent

Deploy the Nova agent on your infrastructure in under three minutes with a single install command.

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How to Set Up Your First Monitor

Create your first infrastructure monitor and start collecting metrics from your services.

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How to Create Your First Alert

Configure intelligent alerting rules so you get notified before issues impact users.

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How to Set Up Your Workspace

Create your org, invite your team, connect a data source, and turn on the modules you need.

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How to Generate API Keys and Credentials

Create agent keys and personal access tokens, scope them, and rotate them safely.

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AI & Automation

Put Nova's AI agents to work, from natural-language commands to autonomous remediation.

How to Use the Nova Copilot

Ask Nova in plain English to investigate metrics, summarize incidents, and run safe fixes.

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How to Configure AI Agent Autonomy

Move AI On-Call from shadow mode to approval-gated to autonomous, with guardrails.

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How to Review and Approve AI Actions

Approve, modify, or reject AI remediations with the full decision transcript.

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How to Monitor Your AI Agent Fleet

Track agent trust scores, activity, and restrict or promote any agent.

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Incident Management

Master the full incident lifecycle from detection to resolution.

How to Manage Active Incidents

Triage, assign, and resolve incidents with AI-assisted root cause analysis and automated remediation.

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How to Create AI Runbooks

Build automated runbooks that let Nova AI execute remediation steps when incidents are detected.

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How to Set Up On-Call Rotations

Create fair on-call schedules with automatic escalation policies and coverage tracking.

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How to Write Post-Mortems with AI

Generate blameless post-mortems automatically from incident timelines, logs, and resolution data.

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How to Turn Postmortems into Alerts

Accept the alert rules Nova proposes after an incident to catch repeats earlier.

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How to Run an Incident War Room

Coordinate a live incident with a frozen timeline, chat, the Copilot, and runbooks.

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Observability

Get full visibility into your infrastructure with logs, traces, and metrics.

How to Use the Log Explorer

Search, filter, and analyze logs across your entire infrastructure with Nova's unified log explorer.

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How to Set Up Distributed Tracing

Trace requests across microservices to find latency bottlenecks and dependency failures.

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How to Configure Golden Signals

Monitor the four golden signals for every service with real-time anomaly detection.

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How to Set Up Synthetic Monitoring

Run synthetic checks from global locations to catch outages before your users notice them.

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How to Define and Track SLOs

Set objectives, watch the error budget, and add burn-rate alerts.

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How to Analyze Performance Trends

Forecast where metrics are heading and set thresholds before you hit a wall.

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How to Set Up Network Monitoring

Watch DNS, TCP, traceroute, BGP, and SSL expiry on the paths you depend on.

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How to Use Session Replay

Replay real user sessions and link them to traces and incidents.

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Integrations

Connect Nova to your existing tools and cloud providers.

How to Connect AWS

Integrate your AWS account to monitor EC2, Lambda, RDS, and 40+ services with zero config.

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How to Connect GitHub

Link GitHub repos to correlate deployments with incidents and track change failure rates.

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How to Connect Slack

Send real-time alerts, incident updates, and AI summaries to your Slack channels.

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How to Connect Grafana

Pipe Nova metrics into Grafana dashboards or import existing Grafana panels into Nova.

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How to Connect Docker

Monitor container health, resource usage, and logs across your Docker environments.

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Migrate from PagerDuty to Nova

Move your on-call schedules, escalation policies, and services from PagerDuty to Nova.

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How to Connect Kubernetes

Monitor node and pod health, logs, and events with the Nova agent as a DaemonSet.

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How to Connect Datadog

Pull Datadog metrics, monitors, and APM traces into Nova for unified correlation.

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How to Connect Prometheus

Bring Prometheus series into Nova by scrape or remote_write.

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How to Connect Azure

Monitor VMs, App Service, AKS, and Azure Monitor with a read-only service principal.

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How to Connect GCP

Monitor Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, and Cloud Monitoring with a read-only key.

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How to Connect PagerDuty

Route Nova incidents to PagerDuty and sync your on-call schedules.

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How to Connect Jira

Auto-create and link Jira issues from incidents.

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How to Connect Microsoft Teams

Send alerts, incident updates, and AI summaries to Teams channels.

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Workspace & Admin

Manage your team, security, and the change history behind every incident.

How to Manage Team Members and Roles

Invite teammates and control access with roles from Viewer to Admin.

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How to Enable Multi-Factor Authentication

Enforce MFA org-wide and set it up with an authenticator app.

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How to Review Audit Logs

Filter the security event trail and export it for SOC2 and HIPAA.

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How to Use Nova Rewind

Answer what changed before an incident with a unified change timeline.

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Platform

Advanced features for power users and platform engineers.

How to Use Dashboard Studio

Build custom dashboards with drag-and-drop widgets, live data, and shareable links.

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How to Set Up Nova Transfer

Securely transfer files across AWS, GCP, and Azure with built-in encryption and audit logging.

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How to Use Nova Shell

Talk to your infrastructure in plain English. AI translates to kubectl, SQL, and AWS CLI commands.

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