# 5 quick steps to get you started

Once installed, we recommend following these steps to help you quickly gain the most our of groundcover's unique observability platform.

## 1. Get a complete view of your workloads

The "Home page" of the groundcover app is our Workloads page. From here, you can get a service-centric view,

[**Go to Workloads →**](https://app.groundcover.com/workloads)

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## 2. Check out full payloads of traces

A highly impactful advantage of leveraging eBPF in our proprietary sensor is that it enables visibility on the [full payloads of both request and response](/capabilities/application-performance-monitoring-apm/traces.md) - including headers! This allows you to very quickly understand issues and provides context.

[**Go to Traces →**](https://app.groundcover.com/traces)

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## 3. Build a native dashboard

groundcover enables to very easily [build custom dashboards](/use-groundcover/dashboards-and-alerts/create-a-dashboard.md) to visualize your data using our intuitive Query Builder as a guide, or using your own queries.

[**Go to Dashboards →**](https://app.groundcover.com/dashboards)

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## 4. Set up a Monitor

[Define custom alerts](/use-groundcover/monitors/create-a-new-monitor.md) using our native Monitors, which you can configure using groundcover data and custom metrics. You can also choose from our Monitors Catalog, which contains multiple pre-built Monitors that cover a few of the most common use cases and needs.

[**Go to Monitors →**](https://app.groundcover.com/monitors)

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## 5. Invite your team

Invites lets you share your workspaces with your colleagues in just a couple of clicks. You can find the "Invite Members" option at the bottom of the left navigation bar. Type in the email addresses of the teammates you want to invite, and set their user permissions (Admin, Editor, Read Only), then click "Send Invites".

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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.groundcover.com/getting-started/5-quick-steps-to-get-you-started.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.