QuickstartCopy Anchor Link

Send your first telemetry to Owlpane in about five minutes. All you need is a workspace, a project ingest key, and curl.

1. Create a workspaceCopy Anchor Link

Sign in at console.owlpane.com and create a workspace for your team. A workspace groups your projects, dashboards, and alerting under one tenant.

2. Create a project and copy the ingest keyCopy Anchor Link

Open Settings → Projects (/settings/projects), create a project, and copy its ingest key (owl_ing_ followed by 48 hex characters). The key is shown once, is write-only for that single project, and only a hash is stored.

3. Export the environmentCopy Anchor Link

export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="https://ingest.owlpane.com"
export OWLPANE_INGEST_KEY="owl_ing_your_key_here"
export OTEL_SERVICE_NAME="checkout-api"

OWLPANE_INGEST_URL is accepted as an alias for OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT.

4. Send one OTLP payloadCopy Anchor Link

curl -sS -X POST "$OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT/v1/logs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OWLPANE_INGEST_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"resourceLogs":[{"resource":{"attributes":[{"key":"service.name","value":{"stringValue":"checkout-api"}}]},"scopeLogs":[{"scope":{"name":"quickstart"},"logRecords":[{"severityNumber":9,"severityText":"INFO","body":{"stringValue":"hello from owlpane"}}]}]}]}'

5. See it in the consoleCopy Anchor Link

Open Observability → Logs (/observability/logs) and filter by service.name = checkout-api. Your record appears within a few seconds. Check Usage to confirm ingest totals.

Next stepsCopy Anchor Link

• OTLP ingest reference — exact paths, gRPC services, and collector snippets.
• Log ingestion, metric ingestion, and distributed traces.
• SDKs — first-party npm/PyPI packages and OpenTelemetry-native guides.
• Ingest keys & authentication — header options and key rotation.