> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.deductive.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Admin setup overview

> One-time setup that turns an empty Deductive workspace into one your team can actually use. Plan on 30 minutes, mostly waiting on credentials.

This is the section to send to whoever's setting up Deductive for your team. It's a one-time, sequential walkthrough. Sign in, connect every relevant tool at once, install Slack, and confirm the workspace is ready. Once you're done, point your team at [Use Deductive → Welcome](/users/welcome) and you're out of the loop.

If you're a regular user who landed here by accident, jump to [Use Deductive → Welcome](/users/welcome).

## Who should do this

One person. Typically the team lead, an SRE, or a platform engineer with credentials access. You need to be the one who can either get or already has:

* Admin access to your team's Datadog / Grafana / Splunk / etc.
* Owner or admin access to your GitHub org (for the GitHub App install)
* Slack workspace admin (for installing the bot)
* A list of any internal alerting URL patterns your team uses

Setting up Deductive once shares it across the entire workspace. Members don't need their own credentials.

## What you'll do

```mermaid theme={null}
flowchart LR
    A[Sign in<br/>find your workspace URL] --> B[Connect your stack<br/>code + telemetry + incidents at once]
    B --> C[Connect Slack<br/>workspace + bot]
    C --> D[Verify<br/>checklist + first investigation]
```

Five short pages, in order:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="1. Sign in" icon="right-to-bracket" href="/admins/sign-in">
    Find your workspace URL (`app.deductive.ai` for self-serve, or your `<company>.deductive.ai` Enterprise URL). Sign in.
  </Card>

  <Card title="2. Connect your stack" icon="layer-group" href="/admins/connect-stack">
    Single comprehensive page. Walk through every connector your team needs in one sitting. Code, observability, incidents, infra, errors.
  </Card>

  <Card title="3. Connect Slack" icon="slack" href="/admins/slack">
    Install the Deductive Slack app at the workspace level. Once. Everyone benefits.
  </Card>

  <Card title="4. Done-when checklist" icon="square-check" href="/admins/checklist">
    Confirm the workspace is genuinely ready before sharing the user docs with the team.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How long this actually takes

| Phase                     | Active time | Realistic wall-clock                                              |
| ------------------------- | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Sign in                   | 1 min       | 1 min                                                             |
| Connect your stack        | 15 min      | 15–60 min (depends on how many credentials you have to hunt down) |
| Connect Slack             | 5 min       | 5 min                                                             |
| Verify with the checklist | 5 min       | 5 min                                                             |

The honest answer: about 30 minutes if your credentials are all at hand, up to an hour if you have to ping a teammate for the right service-account key.

## Hand-off when you're done

Once the [checklist](/admins/checklist) is fully green:

1. Share [Use Deductive → Welcome](/users/welcome) with your team. That's the user-facing entry point.
2. Optionally, drop a one-liner in your team channel: *"Deductive is set up. Start at \[link]."*
3. You're done. Day-to-day use doesn't require admin involvement; users configure their own per-channel alert routing, MCP installs in their IDEs, and feedback.

You will need to come back **once a quarter or so** to add new connectors as your stack changes, but that's it.

## Try this next

<Card title="Sign in" icon="right-to-bracket" href="/admins/sign-in">
  First step. Find your workspace URL and sign in.
</Card>