Getting started
Seven steps, about five minutes. You can change everything later.
Add Kovu to your server
Use Add to Discord and pick your server. You need Manage Server there. Keep the permissions the invite asks for; each module uses some of them.
Move Kovu’s role up
In Discord, open Server Settings → Roles and drag the Kovu role above the roles it should give out or moderate. Discord doesn’t let a bot manage roles above its own.
Follow the first-run setup
Open the dashboard and pick your server. For a server Kovu just joined, the setup opens by itself: the prefix, language and time zone, your moderator and manager roles and an updates channel, then what Kovu should do first, like Moderation, Welcome messages or Logging. Skipped it? Finish setup on the Overview brings it back.
Or start from a template
Already set up a server the way you like? Save it as a template, then choose Start from a template in the last setup step. Kovu shows a preview, adds only what’s missing and lets you undo it for 14 days. The templates guide shows how.
Check your first modules
Open the modules the setup turned on and check them: pick a mod log channel for Moderation, look over the starter filters in Automod, and choose channels for Welcome and the Action Log. Everything else can wait until you need it; hide what you don’t use.
Try a command
Type
/helpin your server to see what’s on. Every command also works with the prefix you picked in the setup,?by default:?warn @member Spamming.Tell your members about kovu.gg
Members can sign in at kovu.gg/me to see their level, reminders and tickets. Turn on the public leaderboard in Levels, or a server page, to give your community something to share.
Moving from Dyno or MEE6Link to this section
Keep your old bot running while you set Kovu up, then turn its modules off one by one, so two bots never answer the same command.
From Dyno
Dyno has no export, so Kovu can’t read your Dyno settings. In the dashboard, Modules → Moving from Dyno or MEE6 lists every Dyno module with a link to its Kovu settings, ticked off as you go. One click there turns on Moderation and Automod with starter spam, mention, invite and phishing filters, close to Dyno’s defaults, and sets Kovu’s prefix to ?: Dyno no longer takes ? commands, but Kovu does. Kovu can also bring over the moderation history Dyno posted in your mod log channel.
From MEE6
On the Levels page, Import from MEE6 brings members’ XP, levels and level roles over after a preview, and you can undo it for 14 days. MEE6 and Kovu use the same level curve, so everyone keeps their level. Make MEE6’s leaderboard public right before you import, then switch off MEE6’s Levels plugin, because XP earned in MEE6 after the import doesn’t come over.
MEE6’s other settings can’t be read: the same dashboard page has a checklist that maps each MEE6 plugin to its Kovu module. The Dyno and MEE6 comparisons show what maps to what.
The moving guide walks through both, step by step.