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Deployment guides

# What to read before you connect

Connect monitoring, set up on-call schedules and test delivery on your team’s phones. All guides are available on this website.

- [How Acktide works →](https://acktide.com/en/)

Mobile alert delivery, on-call routing, acknowledgment and escalation.
 
- [Installation and monitoring setup →](https://acktide.com/en/quickstart.html)

Run Free on your server, configure Alertmanager and connect Android.
 
- [On-call and incident management →](https://acktide.com/en/on-call.html)

Schedules, temporary overrides, escalation, incident reviews and reports.
 
- [Backup alert channel →](https://acktide.com/en/backup-channel.html)

Run Acktide alongside existing notifications and prepare for your primary channel to fail.
 
- [Test delivery on a working phone →](https://acktide.com/en/delivery-check.html)

Tests with the screen off, network loss and escalation to a backup engineer.
 
- [Cloud, Free and Enterprise →](https://acktide.com/en/pricing.html)

Hosting, pricing, trial access and support terms.
 
- [Features and limits →](https://acktide.com/en/limits.html)

Supported channels, device requirements and features included in the current release.

## Test Acktide with one service

Choose a service and the engineers for your test. Connect monitoring, send a test alert, and check delivery, ACK and escalation to the backup engineer. For Enterprise, we agree on pilot criteria and subscription pricing before the test starts.

[Discuss a pilot](https://acktide.com/en/enterprise.html#pilot)

 [Install Free →](https://acktide.com/en/quickstart.html)
