Prompts to Try

Here are some effective prompts to get the most out of Monk. Open Monk chat with Cmd+Shift+M.

Getting Help

what can you do? - Gets a list of what Monk can do
explain the error to me and fix it - Explains the error to you and fixes it
what can I do in this situation? - Gets a list of what you can do in this situation
how would you size infrastructure for this project? - Gets a list of what Monk would do to size infrastructure for this project
how do I ... - Just ask Monk how to do something and it will tell you

Project Deployment

These prompts help you deploy and run your projects:

run this project - Deploys your project with default settings
deploy this project - Equivalent to “run this project”
run this project locally - Runs your project on your local machine
run this project on a 2 node cluster on GCP - Deploys to a specific cloud provider with custom configuration
run this project, use netlify for hosting the frontend - Deploys with specific hosting provider for frontend
build this project - Builds the project without deployment

You can pass additional hints and information to Monk to help it understand your request, for instance, you can tell monk that you want to deploy to a specific cloud provider or PaaS.

Project Information

These prompts help you understand your project:

what is this project about? - Gets an overview of the project
what are components of this project? - Lists the components that make up the project

Monitoring, Logs, Costs

These prompts help you monitor your deployment:

what is the status of my project? - Gets the status of your project at runtime
show me the logs of the database - Shows logs from your database service
show me deployment logs - Shows logs from the deployment process
check logs and see if everything is fine - Analyzes logs for potential issues
how much resources is redis using? - Checks resource usage for a specific service
what's running? - Lists all currently running services
show me the costs of my project - Shows the current and forecasted costs of your project

Cluster Management

These prompts help you manage your infrastructure:

describe my cluster - Provides information about your current cluster
add new nodes to my cluster - Adds new nodes to your cluster
move my project to different cloud provider - Moves your project to a different cloud provider
delete my cluster - Deletes your cluster

These prompts help you access your services:

open frontend in browser - Opens the frontend interface in your browser
open preview in browser - Opens a preview version in your browser
give me shell to my service - Provides shell access to a specific service