Source: https://docs.planekeeper.com/recipes/
Title: Recipes
Description: Step-by-step Planekeeper recipes for common monitoring scenarios — Helm charts, GitHub releases, manual version tracking, private repos, and more.
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# Recipes

Step-by-step examples for common monitoring scenarios.


## Pages in this section

- [Access private repositories and registries](https://docs.planekeeper.com/recipes/private-repo-access/index.md) — Configure SSH keys, HTTPS tokens, and registry credentials for accessing private Git repositories and container registries.
- [Manual Version Tracking](https://docs.planekeeper.com/recipes/manual-version-tracking/index.md) — Track deployed software versions manually without agents, and set up the full monitoring pipeline end-to-end.
- [Monitor GitHub releases](https://docs.planekeeper.com/recipes/monitor-github-releases/index.md) — Full walkthrough for monitoring GitHub project releases, including GitHub token setup for higher rate limits.
- [Monitor Helm chart versions](https://docs.planekeeper.com/recipes/monitor-helm-charts/index.md) — Step-by-step guide to monitoring Helm chart versions with gather jobs, scrape jobs, rules, and alert configs.
- [Monitor Node.js dependencies](https://docs.planekeeper.com/recipes/monitor-node-dependencies/index.md) — Recipe for monitoring Node.js package versions by scraping package.json and tracking upstream releases from GitHub.
- [Send notifications to Discord](https://docs.planekeeper.com/recipes/discord-notifications/index.md) — Set up Discord webhook notifications with copy-paste templates for alert events.
- [Send notifications to Slack](https://docs.planekeeper.com/recipes/slack-notifications/index.md) — Set up Slack webhook notifications with simple text templates and Block Kit JSON templates for rich formatting.