Operational Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Operational hosting on xCloud lets you deploy Operational, an open-source event tracking tool, and watch signups, payments and errors that your own code sends to it. xCloud runs the pinned image with a private MySQL database, puts HTTP Basic Auth on account creation, generates the credentials and secret, mounts persistent volumes and publishes the dashboard and event API over HTTPS on one domain.

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What is Operational?

Operational is an open-source event tracking tool for monitoring signups, webhooks, cronjobs and similar events, with push notifications for critical events on your phone or in the web app. Your code sends events to its API and you read them in a dashboard that works as a progressive web app. A self-hosted Operational is an alternative to the hosted service run by upstream at operational.co. It is licensed AGPL-3.0.

On xCloud it is Operational 0.4.0, the upstream image pinned by digest, beside a private MySQL 8.2 database and a Caddy gateway. The dashboard sits on your domain and the event API under /_api/. The operational_mysql_data volume holds all application data. Upstream lets any visitor create an account, so the gateway asks for a generated setup password on account creation.

From Sign-Up to a Live Operational In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting Operational normally means wiring up MySQL, a gateway and a reverse proxy by hand before your code can send a single event. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Operational from the OneClick catalog. Optionally change the Setup Username (default admin) — xCloud generates the Setup Password for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the pinned Operational 0.4.0 image alongside MySQL 8.2 and a Caddy gateway, mount the persistent database volume, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Start Using It
Open the HTTPS Operational URL, sign in with the Setup Username and Password to create your account, then copy the API key shown and send your first event to /_api/api/v1/log.

Everything Operational Does, On Your Own Server

Operational runs in full here — a self-hosted event tracker, on infrastructure you control.

Event Tracking From Your Own Code
Track signups, webhooks, cronjobs and other product events through a simple event API.
Push And Email Alerts
Get notified for critical events by push to your phone or the web app, or by email, once you add your own VAPID keys or mail settings.
Events-In-Events And Webhook Buttons
Add context to complex events with events nested inside events, and trigger webhooks directly from action buttons.
Installable As A PWA
Install Operational as a progressive web app for checking events on the go.
Protected Account Creation
Account creation is gated by a generated Setup Username and Password, so strangers cannot create accounts on your instance.
Backed By A Persistent Volume
All application data lives on the operational_mysql_data volume, which survives an xCloud Restart.

Everything You Need To Run Your Event Monitoring 24/7

Managed hosting for Operational, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Operational 0.4.0 deployed instantly
MySQL 8.2 database included
Caddy gateway protects account setup
Generated Setup Password
Free SSL certificate
Scheduled Docker backups
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Operational

Get a phone alert when someone signs up
Send an event from your signup code and receive a push notification on your phone or in the web app, so a founder sees new customers the moment they arrive.
Watch payments and failures from your code
Log payments, errors and other critical events from your own backend, then read them in one dashboard instead of searching application logs for the moment something went wrong.
Know when a scheduled job runs
Have a cronjob or webhook report an event when it finishes, so a missed run shows up as a gap in the dashboard rather than a customer complaint.
Trigger a webhook from an event
Add action buttons to an event so a webhook fires on demand, letting you respond to a critical event from your phone without opening a terminal.

Operational vs Alternatives

Hosted event monitoring: Upstream also runs a hosted service at operational.co. Self-hosting Operational keeps events, accounts and the MySQL database on a server you control, and you manage the notifications yourself.
Healthchecks: Healthchecks has its own OneClick page. In an Operational vs Healthchecks comparison, Operational tracks product events such as signups and errors, with context, push alerts and webhook action buttons.
ntfy: ntfy has its own OneClick page. Operational is not a push relay: it is a dashboard of events your code sends, which can notify your phone as a progressive web app.
Uptime Kuma: Uptime Kuma has its own OneClick page. It checks whether services are up; Operational records what your own code reports, such as signups, payments and cronjob runs.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Operational. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More products and higher event volume.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
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Cloud VPS 24 GB

Operational alongside a whole self-hosted stack.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account.

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Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Operational on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Own Your Event Data?

Operational on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Keep your event data private. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How much RAM does Operational need?

The template floor is 1024 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk, covering the app, the Caddy gateway and MySQL 8.2. The 6 GB plan sits well above that floor, leaving room for a growing event history.

Can you self-host Operational with Docker?

Yes, and this template is operational docker hosting without the setup: the upstream image, MySQL 8.2 and a Caddy gateway pinned by digest, three named volumes, a generated secret and database credentials, and the dashboard and API on one HTTPS domain.

What events can Operational track?

Upstream describes signups, webhooks, cronjobs and similar events, and your own code sends them to the event API at /_api/ using the API key shown after you create an account. Critical events can trigger push notifications.

How do I create an account on Operational?

Open your HTTPS URL and use the setup screen. Operational has no admin and would let any visitor register, so the gateway makes your browser prompt for the setup username and generated password first. Login and event sending are unaffected.

Does Operational send push and email notifications?

Not out of the box. Push needs a VAPID key pair set in the Environment editor, and email needs Resend or SMTP settings. Without a mail provider, emails, including activation codes, are written to files inside the container.

Is Operational free?

Yes. Operational is released under AGPL-3.0, so running it costs nothing in licence fees. Your bill is the Cloud VPS, making this an Operational cloud install of your own, separate from the hosted service upstream runs at operational.co.

How do I back up Operational?

Back up the operational_mysql_data volume, which holds all application data, by stopping the stack first or using mysqldump through docker exec. The operational_private and operational_public volumes hold only emails and uploaded files.

Backup and restore Docker apps

How do I upgrade Operational?

The install stays on its pinned 0.4.0 image until you adopt a newer template version. Dump MySQL first. Nothing upgrades by itself, and a redeploy keeps the volumes, so your events and accounts remain in place.

Are Operational container logs safe to share?

No. The container log prints the database URL and the signing secret on every start, so keep it private. If logs ever leak, rotate the secret in the Environment editor, which signs every user out.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.