Getting started

Subscribing to Self-Hosted lets you set Maester Cloud up straight away, in your own Azure subscription. Sign in to your account after checkout and start setup: the steps below are what it walks you through.

Prefer that we run it for you? Hosted Maester Cloud is coming soon: join the waitlist.

1 · Subscribe

Complete checkout from the pricing page (payments are handled by Polar, our merchant of record). You are taken straight to your Maester Cloud account, where you can start setup.

2 · Name your portal

Pick a name for your instance and the Azure region your data lives in. Your reports and history are stored only in that region.

3 · Connect Microsoft Entra

Your portal signs users in with an app registered in your tenant. The wizard offers two paths:

Express setup: sign in once as an admin to the Maester Cloud Setup helper and create the app in one click, with live progress for each step; choose "Review each step" to approve every Microsoft Graph call before it runs. Either way the calls run in your browser (the admin token never reaches our servers), and the final step removes the helper from your tenant entirely, so Maester Cloud keeps no access. Great for dev and demo tenants.
Manual setup: create the app yourself via the Entra portal, Graph Explorer, or one PowerShell script. Recommended for production tenants: granting any third-party app application-management rights, even for a session, is a privilege your production tenant shouldn't hand out.

Either way the result is identical: a single-page application with no client secret, the openid and User.ReadBasic.All delegated permissions, and user assignment required, so only people you explicitly assign can ever sign in. The wizard ends with the directory (tenant) ID and application (client) ID filled in.

Add teammates later under Entra admin center → Enterprise applications → Maester Cloud Portal → Users and groups.

4 · Watch it build

Provisioning your dedicated environment takes a few minutes; the wizard shows each step live (resource group, portal, API, storage, DNS, certificate, smoke check). You can close the page and return from the email link, and it resumes where it left off.

5 · Sign in and run your first check

Open your instance URL, sign in with your work account, and follow the in-portal checklist to connect Microsoft Graph. The built-in Maester Cloud Runner then runs your first Maester tests for you. The moment it lands, the Overview lights up with real numbers; the second run activates drift.

Sending reports yourself via the API (Sending reports) is on the roadmap, not yet available in the private preview.Roadmap