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title: "Introduction to Assistant Watchers | Grafana Labs"
description: "Create a watcher that checks a service on a schedule, calibrate those checks against your telemetry, run it once, and read the first result."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Introduction to Assistant Watchers

Create a watcher that checks a service on a schedule, calibrate those checks against your telemetry, run it once, and read the first result.

Journey

A journey is a guided series of sections that builds up a topic in depth and is more comprehensive than a path, which covers one focused task.

Slides

9

Duration

12 min

[Start journey](https://grafana.com/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-assistant-watchers/01-intro/01-journey-overview/)