Getting started
1. Create your workspace
Sign up with your work email and a password, and verify the address. Then top up your balance, from $30, with Stripe. Your workspace is created as soon as the payment goes through, and nothing is charged before you confirm on Stripe's page. If you'd rather try it first, start a free trial. It gives you $10 of usage for 14 days after a card check that charges nothing (see Billing).
2. Create an ingest key
In the app, open Settings > API keys and create an Ingest key. The key is shown only once, so put it in your secret manager right away. Owners and admins create ingest keys. A Browser key is a separate, public key for front ends.
3. Send telemetry
Point any OpenTelemetry exporter at Flowhawk with the key as a bearer token:
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://ingest.flowhawk.dev
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS=Authorization=Bearer%20<ingest key>
OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=ordersOr use a Flowhawk SDK, which also tags each span with its business flow and takes sampling and redaction settings from Flowhawk without a redeploy. See Sending data for each language, the browser and Sentry SDKs.
You can also let your coding agent do this. Connect it to Flowhawk over MCP and ask it to set Flowhawk up. It installs the SDK in each service, drafts your business map and opens a pull request (how).
4. Map your flows
Open Setup in the app. Once traffic arrives, Flowhawk drafts your business map (flows and their steps, matched to routes), alerts for the important flows and a first dashboard. Look through the drafts and accept the ones that fit. Each one you accept is a config change with its own history, and you can undo it.
5. Invite your team
Invite people in Settings > Members as viewer, editor, admin or owner. There are no seat fees.