Quickstart
From sign-up to your first Slack alert in under 10 minutes.
Create your account
Go to app.lighthouseai.co/sign-up and create an account. After signing in, you'll be guided through a short onboarding wizard.
The wizard asks a few questions about your team. These are a one-time survey to help us improve the product; they do not affect permissions or feature access.
| Field | Who sees it |
|---|---|
| Department | Everyone |
| Team size | Everyone |
| Your role (job function) | Everyone |
| Company industry | Org creator only |
| Organization size | Org creator only |
When the wizard completes, you'll be redirected to /overview, the main dashboard.
Connect a warehouse
Navigate to /data-sources and click Create new data source. Select your data source type (Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, SQL Server, Mixpanel, or API Connector) and fill in the connection credentials.
You must click Test Connection and see a green success state before the save button becomes active.
See Connect a Warehouse for warehouse-specific field requirements and troubleshooting.
Create a dataset
Open Data Sources in the sidebar and select the data source you just connected. On its Datasets tab, click Create dataset, then choose a table or view.
For each column, assign a role: which columns can be used as metric values, filters, segment dimensions, and time references. At minimum, mark one column as a datetime column so metrics can be scoped to time windows.
See Create a Dataset for the full column role reference.
Create a metric
Navigate to /metrics and click Create new metric. Choose a Business metric (pick aggregation + column) or write a custom SQL metric.
You can also describe the metric you want in plain English; the Metric Assistant will configure the form for you. Or click Create Metric on any AI suggestion card to pre-fill the form from an AI recommendation.
Before a metric can go live, three sections must be complete:
- Schedule: How often Lighthouse queries your warehouse (e.g. every hour)
- Threshold: The condition that triggers an alert (e.g. value drops more than 30%)
- Notification channel: The Slack channel where alerts are posted
See Creating Metrics for all available options.
Connect Slack
Open Communication in the sidebar, click Create new source, and choose Slack. You'll be taken to Slack's OAuth screen; authorize the Lighthouse app to post to your workspace.
Once connected, go back to your metric and select the Slack channel where alerts should be posted.
See Slack Integration for details on the alert message format and interactive buttons.
Go live
Once your metric has a schedule, threshold, and notification channel configured, enable it. Lighthouse will begin monitoring on your schedule and post to Slack whenever the threshold is breached.