First Hour Checklist
Twelve tasks that take a new workspace from signup to live monitoring.
Work through these twelve tasks to get real data into Nolax and a basic monitoring and compliance loop running.
1
Register workspace owner account
2
Invite one or two core operators
3
Configure monitored standards
4
Create first project
5
Store project key in a secret manager
6
Add two to five priority APIs with environment labels
7
Verify metrics begin populating
8
Create one alert rule
9
Send a request to an instrumented API and confirm it appears
10
Generate one compliance report
11
Configure one recurring report schedule
12
Assign key rotation owner and cadence
After the first hour
- Project dashboard shows API activity
- Alerting is configured for at least one critical API
- Report generation works for your selected standards
- Someone owns key rotation, and the cadence is written down
Note
To test ingestion directly, send a gzipped payload with the X-Nolax-Key
header to the ingest endpoint described in the API Reference. You should get
202 Accepted.
Next steps
- 1Troubleshooting and Guardrails
Review the most common rollout mistakes before you expand usage.
- 2Projects and API Registration
Tighten ownership boundaries and add the APIs you want to monitor.