NaoShift Academy is live: learn NaoShift at your own pace
Six learning paths, 34 lessons and short films in English and French to get started with NaoShift, from installing the collector to steering decisions. Open to all, with progress checked against your real infrastructure.
The NaoShift Academy is live at academy.naoshift.io. It brings together getting-started paths, short lessons and films, to take you from "I am discovering NaoShift" to "I run my infrastructure with it" without waiting for a training session.
Everything is free to read, in English and in French. A NaoShift account is only needed to track your progress.
Why an Academy
The same questions come up at every deployment: which network flows to open for the collector, which account to give the hypervisor, how to read a first collection, who can act on what. The documentation answers them, but it describes everything, whereas someone getting started needs to know what to do now.
The Academy takes that approach: a lesson says what to do, in order, with the exact labels shown on screen, and points to the documentation for the details. It stays complete without its video, and every film makes sense without the lesson.
Six paths, depending on your role
- Discover NaoShift (everyone, 15 minutes): what NaoShift does, how data arrives, how to find your way around the interface.
- Connect your infrastructure (infrastructure lead, about an hour): prepare the ground, create and install the collector, connect a platform, read the first collection, add backups and storage arrays, or import a file without installing anything.
- Read your estate (operations, IT manager, 40 minutes): dashboard, filters and scope, inventory and topology, deciding on an alert, incidents and subscriptions, capacity planning, first report.
- Act on your infrastructure (operator, administrator, 30 minutes): the locks that govern writes, the action account, a first action, the console, deploying a machine, the action log.
- Administer your company (administrator, 30 minutes): inviting the team, roles and rights, single sign-on and two-factor authentication, notifications and digests, costs and thresholds, API keys.
- Steer and decide (CIO, 20 minutes, hands-off): opportunities and recommendations, capacity and recovery, carbon footprint, preparing a transformation, a report for management.
That is 34 lessons in all, and 13 short films, each in English and in French.
Progress checked against your real infrastructure
Progress does not rely on a quiz. Where possible, a lesson ticks itself, based on the real state of your account: "Install the collector" is validated when your collector is online, "Connect your platform" when a first source is connected, "Read the first collection" when it has succeeded.
When a step is blocked, the lesson says so and tells you what kind of blocker it is. No server or machine name ever reaches the Academy: only facts such as "done" or "not yet".
What really gets in the way, from the field
Every lesson of the "Connect" path includes an "If it gets stuck" box, written from real deployments:
- the installation token expires after one hour: open the network flows first, then create the token;
- behind a proxy, the installer does not always carry the setting over to the service: the lesson gives the command to add it;
- a Hyper-V host whose WinRM does not listen over HTTPS fails on every attempt: platform prerequisites are checked before connecting;
- an address entered without
https://or without its port; - an internal certificate authority rejected: it is a TLS setting of the connector, neither a network issue nor a password.
The first lesson, Prepare the ground, is a public, printable page: it can be handed as is to the network team.
What comes next
More paths are in preparation: diagnosing an incident and reading a root-cause analysis, migrating between platforms, hosting customers with NaoShift Portal, installing the on-premise appliance, and using the API, the CLI and the MCP server. They will be announced when they go live.
The Academy can also be reached from the application, in the side menu and in the help menu.
Frequently asked questions
Is the NaoShift Academy free?
Yes. All lessons and films are freely accessible, without an account. A NaoShift account also lets you track your progress, checked against the real state of your infrastructure.
Do you need a NaoShift account to follow the paths?
Not to read and watch. Yes for lessons to tick themselves. The free trial is enough to follow the "Connect your infrastructure" path end to end.
Are the videos available in French?
Yes. Every film exists in English and in French, and every lesson has its French version on academy.naoshift.io/fr.
Going further
Start with the Discover NaoShift path, a quarter of an hour to get the big picture. To connect your first source, start for free, or write to us for an assisted deployment.