Quick Start

First event, visible in the console. Two minutes, one curl.

1. Create a Stream

Open Telemetry in the Console and click Create first Stream (or Manage Streams, then + New Stream, when a Stream already exists).

Pick Events.
Name the Stream Web and leave retention at 7 days.
Click Create Stream.

2. Issue an ingest key

The new Stream opens on Keys & Setup. Click Issue Key and confirm.

The new key appears right away; copy the key, which starts with lit_. Later, keys show as a preview: Reveal (or Copy) returns the full key again.

3. Send an event

bash

curl -X POST https://ws.latency.app/v1/ingest \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer lit_XXXXXXXXXXX" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "signup", "plan": "pro", "source": "pricing"}'

Response:

json

{ "accepted": true, "bytes": 54 }

4. Find the event

Back in Telemetry, open Explore. The event is there, with plan and source ready for filtering (stream:Web shows only that Stream's data). The request URL names no Stream: the key decides where data goes.

Next steps

Instrument an app with OpenTelemetry: automatic traces, metrics and logs
Send logs and metrics over HTTP: every format the API accepts

Quick Start ​

1. Create a Stream ​

2. Issue an ingest key ​

3. Send an event ​