# overview
Getting Started
From sign-up to your first live detection in five minutes. No code required.
Create Your Workspace
Sign up with your email or SSO provider. You'll be prompted to create a workspace — this is your team's home on ChainAlert. Every detection, alert, and integration lives inside your workspace. You can invite teammates later.
Pick a Detection Template
Browse the detection catalog and choose what you want to monitor. Each template is pre-configured for a specific threat or event pattern — you just provide the contract address and any thresholds.
Configure Your Detection
Provide the inputs your detection needs — typically a contract address and a threshold value. Choose the chain you want to monitor (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, or Polygon) and set a severity level. ChainAlert automatically resolves the contract's ABI if it's verified on-chain.
Connect a Notification Channel
Tell ChainAlert where to send alerts. Connect your Slack workspace with one click, add an email address, or configure a webhook to pipe alerts into PagerDuty, Telegram, or your own systems. You can add multiple channels and route different detections to different teams.
Activate and Monitor
Hit activate. ChainAlert starts monitoring immediately — there's no deploy step or waiting period. Your detection appears on the dashboard where you can track matched events, view alert history, and adjust thresholds at any time.
Ready to set up your first detection?
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