Quick Start

Send your first event and see it in the console. Two minutes, one curl.

1. Create a Stream

Open Telemetry in the Console and click Create Your First Stream (or Manage Streams, then + New Stream, if you already have one).

Pick Events.
Name it 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.

Copy the key right away. It starts with lit_ and is shown only once.

3. Send an event

bash

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

You'll get back:

json

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

4. See it

Back in Telemetry, pick the Web Stream in Explore. Your event is there, and plan and source are ready to filter on. There's no Stream name in the URL: the key decides where data goes.

Next steps

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Quick Start ​

1. Create a Stream ​

2. Issue an ingest key ​

3. Send an event ​