How-To

How to use Astry for the first time?

A 5-minute guide to creating your first team, configuring the on-call schedule, and adding a routing rule.

Summary

Here, we'll set up your incident management system together. This guided setup will walk you through everything you need to get started.

What we'll cover:

  • Creating your first team and its on-call schedule
  • Adding a routing rule

Duration: 5 minutes.

Creating your first team and its on-call schedule

From any page in your Astry workspace, you can open the Teams tab.

First steps step 1

Then click the Create a team button:

First steps step 2

Enter your team's name.

First steps step 3

Then click Save:

First steps step 4

Now add a first member to your team by clicking the Add a member button:

First steps step 5

Select the user (using the dropdown menu) you want to add to the team. Then click Add:

First steps step 6

Then click the On-call schedule button to configure it.

First steps step 7

Here you can set the on-call periodicity (daily, weekly, monthly). Choose whatever fits your team and your needs best.

First steps step 8

Next, you can define which team members will be on-call. To do this, drag and drop members into the "Take part in rotations" column.

First steps step 9

Adding a routing rule

Finally, we'll configure a new routing rule. This will be applied by default to all incidents (we won't specify any criteria in this rule), which will route all of them directly to the team you just created. To do this, navigate to the Organization tab.

First steps step 10

Then click the Add a rule button:

First steps step 11

As mentioned above, here we choose to configure a default rule, i.e. a rule that will be applied to all incidents. To do this, select the team and click Create:

First steps step 12

And there you go, your first routing rule is configured.

First steps step 13

You can now start using Astry by connecting your preferred integration.