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Getting Started

Get from zero to your first enriched incident in under 10 minutes.

Prerequisites

  • A Noctuary account (sign up)
  • An ingest API key (Settings → API Keys → Create → type: ingest)
  • A host running your application with OpenTelemetry logs available

Overview

1. Install the Noctuary Agent on your host
2. Configure it with your ingest API key
3. Point your OTel Collector at the agent
4. Watch context events appear in the dashboard

Step 1 — Create an ingest API key

Log in to the Noctuary dashboard and navigate to Settings → API Keys.

Click Create key and choose type ingest. Copy the key — it is shown once only.

Warning

Store the key securely. If you lose it, revoke it and create a new one.

Step 2 — Install the agent

Install the agent

Step 3 — Connect your alerting tool

Connect PagerDuty

Step 4 — See your first enriched incident

First incident walkthrough