# Monitoring Guide

Please visit our [Observability Docs](/self-hosted/observability) for more in-depth information about observability in Sourcegraph.

## Prerequisites

This document assumes that you are a [site admin](/admin/).

## Set up monitoring

1. Familiarize yourself with [Sourcegraph's monitoring dashboards and metrics](/self-hosted/observability/metrics).
    1. Also see our [full dashboards reference](/self-hosted/observability/dashboards).
2. [Set up alerting](/self-hosted/observability/alerting#setting-up-alerting) and [learn about how to respond to alerts](/self-hosted/observability/alerting#understanding-alerts).
    1. Also see our [full alert solutions reference](/self-hosted/observability/alerts).

## FAQs

See the [monitoring section of our FAQ](/admin/faq#monitoring).