Concepts

Checkstack is built around a small set of concepts that compose into your full monitoring setup. Read these pages in order if you are new; come back to them as a glossary later.

OverviewWhat Checkstack is and the mental model behind it.

Systems and groupsThe catalog of what you monitor and how it is organised.

Health checksStrategies, collectors, scheduling, and how a check result becomes a status.

Log streamsShip high-volume logs, group them into patterns, and assert on windowed log metrics as health checks.

Metric streamsIngest OTLP, Prometheus, or JSON metrics and assert on gauges, counter rates, and label-filtered series.

IncidentsThe manual lifecycle for tracking an outage from first report to resolution.

MaintenancesPlanned downtime windows that suppress noise and signal the schedule to the team.

NotificationsSubscriptions, in-app vs external delivery, and how silencing fits in.

IntegrationsOutbound webhooks to Slack, Jira, Teams, and other external systems.

Teams and accessUsers, roles, and team-scoped resource access.

SatellitesRemote monitoring agents for multi-region and network-isolated checks.

GitOpsStore your catalog and health checks as YAML and reconcile them from Git.

EnvironmentsInstance-wide deployment contexts (production, staging, ...) with per-environment health tracking and config templating.