Quickstart - DevHelm

Create your first HTTP monitor in under 5 minutes. Pick the approach that fits your workflow.

Prerequisites

A DevHelm account — sign up at app.devhelm.io
An API key — create one from Settings → API Keys in the Dashboard

Set your token as an environment variable:

export DEVHELM_API_TOKEN=dh_live_xxxxxxxx

Each API token is scoped to a single organization and workspace, so the examples below work without any org/workspace flag. If your token grants access to multiple orgs or workspaces, set DEVHELM_ORG_ID and DEVHELM_WORKSPACE_ID as well — see CLI authentication for switching contexts in the CLI.

The examples below use a 60-second check frequency, which requires a paid plan (the Free plan minimum is 300 seconds). Omit the frequency entirely to default to your plan’s minimum.

Create a monitor

CLI
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TypeScript
Python
REST API

Install the CLI globally:

npm install -g devhelm

Create a monitor:

devhelm monitors create \
  --name "My API" \
  --type HTTP \
  --url https://api.example.com/health \
  --frequency 60 \
  --regions us-east

Check your monitor status:

devhelm monitors list

Create a devhelm.yml file:

version: "1"

tags:
  - name: production
    color: "#10b981"

monitors:
  - name: API Health
    type: HTTP
    config:
      url: https://api.example.com/health
      method: GET
    frequencySeconds: 60
    regions:
      - us-east
      - eu-west
    tags:
      - production

  - name: Marketing Site
    type: HTTP
    config:
      url: https://example.com
      method: GET
    frequencySeconds: 300
    regions:
      - us-east

alertChannels:
  - name: Engineering Slack
    config:
      channelType: slack
      webhookUrl: ${SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL}

Preview and deploy:

devhelm validate devhelm.yml
devhelm plan -f devhelm.yml
devhelm deploy -f devhelm.yml

npm install @devhelm/sdk

import { Devhelm } from "@devhelm/sdk";

const client = new Devhelm({
  token: process.env.DEVHELM_API_TOKEN!,
});

const monitor = await client.monitors.create({
  name: "My API",
  type: "HTTP",
  config: { url: "https://api.example.com/health", method: "GET" },
  frequencySeconds: 60,
  regions: ["us-east"],
});

console.log(`Monitor created: ${monitor.id}`);

pip install devhelm

import os
from devhelm import Devhelm

client = Devhelm(token=os.environ["DEVHELM_API_TOKEN"])

monitor = client.monitors.create({
    "name": "My API",
    "type": "HTTP",
    "config": {"url": "https://api.example.com/health", "method": "GET"},
    "frequencySeconds": 60,
    "regions": ["us-east"],
})

print(f"Monitor created: {monitor.id}")

curl -X POST https://api.devhelm.io/api/v1/monitors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DEVHELM_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "My API",
    "type": "HTTP",
    "config": { "url": "https://api.example.com/health", "method": "GET" },
    "frequencySeconds": 60,
    "regions": ["us-east"]
  }'

What happens next

Once your monitor is running, DevHelm will:

Check your endpoint from the selected probe regions at the configured frequency
Create an incident automatically if the endpoint fails or violates assertions
Alert your team through connected alert channels (Slack, PagerDuty, email, etc.)
Resolve the incident automatically when the endpoint recovers

Next steps

Monitoring overview

Learn about all six monitor types, assertions, and regions.

Alerting guide

Set up alert channels, notification policies, and escalation rules.

Monitoring as Code

Manage your monitoring stack in YAML or Terraform and deploy from CI/CD.

CLI overview

Full command reference for all CLI operations.

​Prerequisites

​Create a monitor

​What happens next

​Next steps

Monitoring overview

Alerting guide

Monitoring as Code

CLI overview

Prerequisites

Create a monitor

What happens next

Next steps