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url: https://docs.notice.cx/start/quickstart.md
description: >-
  Go from a machine with Docker to the first number on a site's Overview, with
  one command and no checkout.
---

# Install in five minutes

Follow this page to go from a machine with Docker to the first number on a site's Overview.

NoticeOS runs on your own machine as a few Docker containers, and you use it through the **Tower**, its web app, in your browser. There you add a **site**, one of your websites or products; connect a **data source**, a service that already holds the site's numbers, such as Google Analytics; and read the site's first figures on its **Overview**, the first tab of the site's own page. Other terms are defined in the [Glossary](/concepts/glossary).

## Before you begin

You need one thing on the machine:

* Docker: Docker Desktop or Docker Engine, running

To work on NoticeOS itself or build its image yourself, [install from source](/start/install-from-source) instead.

## Steps

1. Set up the installation, then open **http://127.0.0.1:5173/**:

   ```sh
   docker run --rm ghcr.io/notice-cx/noticeos:main launcher | sh -s -- setup
   ```

2. On **Home**, select **Add your first site**. In the **Add a site** dialog, type the domain in the **Domain** field and select **Add site**. The new site's **Data sources** tab opens.

3. On the **Data sources** tab, select **Connect** on a source, paste what the provider issued, select **Connect**, then select **Start collecting**. For Google, you sign in with your Google account instead of pasting a key.

4. Open the site's **Overview** to see its first number.

Setup puts the installation in `~/noticeos`; `~/noticeos/noticeos status` shows its state. [Install with Docker](/start/install-with-docker) covers the options, the daily commands and updates.

## Verify

* **Home** shows the site with the health word **Setting up** until the first numbers arrive.
* On the **Data sources** tab, the source's row changes from **Collecting** to **Working** when its first result arrives.
* The site's **Overview** shows a row of figures above one chart.

## Next steps

* [Add your first site](/guides/add-your-first-site), the full guide
* [Connect data sources](/guides/connect-data-sources)
* [Connect Google](/guides/connect-google)