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SNS Monitoring

Time to complete: < 10 minutes

Requirements: CycleOps UI - 0 code required!

Hey there, welcome to CycleOps 👋

Let's get you set up so you can kick back 🍺 and stop worrying about your SNS canisters freezing up 🥶

First, let's head over to https://cycleops.dev/. Click the "Connect" button at the bottom of the page to log in with Internet Identity and set up your account.

Connect to CycleOps

Onboarding (takes < 10 minutes)​

  1. Click Begin and (optional) personalize your account by providing an username, display name, and avatar url

Profile Setup

  1. Choose SNS Monitoring to set up canister monitoring for your SNS

    Monitoring Options

  2. SNS Monitoring Select the desired SNS, individually select the canisters you'd like to monitor, and then click "Add canisters".

Adding an SNS can take 10-20 seconds, so after clicking "Add canisters", sit back and relax 🏝️.

Note: Adding SNS canisters currently adds them to your CycleOps account with a default top up rule of "when below 10 trillion cycles, top up with 5 trillion cycles". After several days of monitoring, we recommend checking back in 👀 with your CycleOps dashboard and adjusting this top up rule based on the per-canister burn rate 🔥 and time to freeze 🥶 estimate metrics that CycleOps provides.

SNS Selection

SNS Canisters

  1. Configure Notifications 🔔 Provide the email address 📩 you wish to receive canister top-up notifications at, as well as which notifications (top-up success, failure) you would like to receive for this canister. Top up failure notifications help to indicate if there was an issue topping up your canister for any reason.

On clicking save, a confirmation email titled "[CycleOps] Please verify your email address" will be sent out to the address provided. Keep this page open, and navigate to the email.

Notification Setup

Inside the email is a confirmation link, which will complete the email verification process.

  1. Deposit Funds 🪙 Almost there! You are now at the final step, depositing funds to your CycleOps account identifier (not principal). This ICP is only used to top-up your canisters when their cycles balances run low.

Using the account identifier provided, transfer at least 0.1 ICP to CycleOps, and click "verify balance" to continue!

Deposit Setup

🎉 🍻 All done! Your canister will now be periodically monitored once every 6 hours and topped up according to the top-up rules you've provided.

At this point, you can:

  • Add more canisters with the "Add canister" button 🚀
  • Navigate to the "Settings" tab to:
    • (Recommended) Add a Low ICP Balance notification if your account ICP balance falls below a certain value after completing a top-up. This ensures your canister top-ups won't fail due to insufficient funds 😅.
    • Modify your existing top-up notification settings.
    • Set memory threshold alerts for individual canisters