KADA Deployment - Go live checklist
- Dean Nguyen
The following is a sample checklist for an Enterprise deployment.
Note this excludes tasks typically managed under the onboarding program (source integration, user training and show cases etc) or sign-offs from Security, Architecture and other key stakeholder groups.
Category | Task | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Security | Enable Single Sign On and Centralised role based management
For example if the enterprises uses Entra ID, configure Entra ID for SSO and Roles/Groups | Recommended |
| 2 | Monitoring | Enable container logging to centralised monitoring service (e.g. Splunk, Azure Monitor, Datadog)
| Recommended for Your cloud deployment only. Not required for K SaaS |
| 3 | Network | Configure subdomain and certificate for internal routing | Recommended |
| 4 | Network | Configure firewalls for direct connections / collectors for source integrations | |
| 5 | Email Integration | Configure email service (K or internal SMTP service) for K alerts | |
| 6 | Alerts | Configure K and monitoring service alerts to the team supporting K | |
| 7 | Support | Assign support responsibilities to a Team | |
| 8 | Confidentiality | Register the product in the Enterprise Service catalog. Ensure the platform has clearly defined:
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| 9 | Upgrades | Establish the upgrade process (automated or manual) and schedules to ensure the platform remains within the recommended support period. | |
| 10 | Capacity planning | Review growth projections and use cases to ensure that the platform infrastructure is suitably sized. | |
| 11 | Onboarding | Establish an onboarding process to enable Employees to request and obtain access Alternatively enable all employees to have basic read access to K | |
| 12 | Offboarding | Establish a regular process to review access to K | |
| 13 | Documentation | Setup documentation covering the key features, workflows, and best practices. Include FAQs to address common issues. | |
| 14 | Training | Setup training material and options for key personas and use cases | |
| 15 | Feedback | Establish channel to gather feedback to the accountable team (and/or vendor) | |
| 16 | Vendor management | Establish monthly/quarter forum with KADA aligned success manager |