1. Sign up
Head to augur.news/signup. Free plan ships with 3 watch zones, real-time alerts and basic event history. No card required.
Quickstart
From zero to first alert
The whole flow takes under 10 minutes. You will need a Slack workspace (or any other channel you want alerts in) and an idea of which place on Earth you want to watch.
2. Pick a starter zone (onboarding)
The onboarding wizard offers preset shapes for common scenarios — a port (Shanghai, LA/Long Beach, Rotterdam), a refinery, a country border, or a city centre. Pick one or drop a custom circle on the map.
3. Wire an alert channel
Click Add to Slack on the channels screen and pick the channel you want alerts in. Augur installs an incoming-webhook for you — no manual URL copy/paste. Discord works the same way. Telegram needs a bot token; generic webhook takes any URL.
Once the channel is live, hit the “Send test alert” button on /dashboard/channels to prove the wiring works.
4. Tighten the severity threshold
Default zones fire on severity ≥ 40 (the boundary between “weather advisory” and “you probably want to know”). For operational rooms, push it to ≥ 60. For SOCs, ≥ 70. You can change this at any time from the watch-zone row.
5. (Pro) Pull events via the REST API
On Pro and Enterprise plans, mint an API key from /settings/api-keys. Call GET /api/v1/events and GET /api/v1/alerts with a bearer header. Both endpoints return JSON. Full reference at /docs/api.
6. (Optional) Embed a zone map publicly
From the watch-zone row, click Share to mint a public embed token. Paste the iframe HTML into your live blog, internal wiki or external partner dashboard. The map stays in sync with the alert feed — no login required to view.
Need help?
Email hello@augur.news — replies usually land within 12 hours. Enterprise customers get a dedicated Slack Connect channel and a 4-hour SLA.