Connecting Your Stack

After creating your account, the onboarding wizard helps you subscribe to the cloud and SaaS services your team depends on. This takes about 30 seconds.

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The 3-step onboarding wizard

Step 1: Pick a preset stack

The wizard presents preset stacks — curated bundles of commonly used services grouped by use case. Examples:

Select one or more presets, or click Start from scratch to hand-pick every service individually.

Step 2: Review individual components

Each service is made up of components — for example, AWS has EC2, S3, Lambda, and dozens more. In this step you can:

• Expand any service to see its components.
• Toggle components on or off — subscribe only to the parts you actually use.
• Add more services from the full directory using the search bar at the top.

This gives you fine-grained control so your board isn't cluttered with components you don't care about.

Step 3: Confirm and subscribe

Review your selections and click Confirm. PulsAPI will:

1. Add all selected services and components to your personal My Board.
2. Begin showing real-time status for each.
3. Enable default alert rules (you can customize these later in Alerts & Notifications).

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Modifying your subscriptions later

You are not locked into your initial selections. At any time you can:

• Go to All Services in the sidebar to browse the full directory of 200+ services.
• Click any service to view its components and toggle your subscription on or off.
• Remove services from your board by unsubscribing.

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Next step

Now that your stack is connected, take a quick tour of the interface: Navigating the App.