Documentation

Try the open-source tools locally, or connect an existing workspace and explore your telemetry.

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Open-source tools

Try the Rust query parsers locally without a PackDB account, or connect the SDK to an existing endpoint.

Try the public tools →

Quickstart

Send your first telemetry with an OpenTelemetry collector or a single curl, then read it back.

Read the quickstart →

Connect your data

Copy-paste OTel, curl, and Grafana examples wired to your environment endpoints and workspace API-key flow.

Open Connect →

API keys

Mint a machine key (packdb_…) for ingestion and queries. Use it as the X-API-Key header.

Manage keys →

Guides

Query completeness

Why a successful query is not always a complete answer, with a visual Rust SDK example.

AI assistants (MCP)

The read-only evidence contract, current tool availability, and connection rollout status.

Grafana

Provision PackDB as Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and Jaeger datasources and import dashboards.

Deployment model

How PackDB runs as a managed service and how you adopt it.

Troubleshooting

Fixes for auth, ingest, and query issues when data isn’t flowing.

Reference guides

Deep-dive guides are expanding. Here is the map of what they cover — the quickstart above and the in-product Connect panel cover the activation path today.

Getting Started

  • Introduction — What PackDB is and how it works
  • Quick Start — Send your first telemetry
  • Account Setup — Create and configure your account
  • Configuration — Platform settings and tuning

Send Data

  • OpenTelemetry (OTLP) — HTTP and gRPC ingestion
  • Prometheus Remote Write — Prometheus-compatible ingestion
  • API Keys & Auth — Authentication for data ingestion

Query Data

  • PromQL Guide — Query metrics with Prometheus syntax
  • SQL Reference — PostgreSQL date_bin() dialect over FlightSQL and REST
  • LogQL Guide — Log queries with LogQL
  • TraceQL Guide — Trace search with TraceQL — the default trace query surface
  • Jaeger Traces — Trace exploration with Jaeger API

API Reference

  • REST API — HTTP endpoints for all signals
  • gRPC API — High-performance gRPC interface
  • Authentication — API keys and tokens
  • Error Codes — Error reference and troubleshooting

Platform

  • Service Graph — Service dependency visualization
  • Dashboards — Built-in and Grafana dashboards
  • Team Management — Users, roles, and permissions
  • Usage & Billing — Monitor your usage and plan

Architecture

  • Architecture Overview — System design and data flow
  • Storage Engine — Arrow-based columnar storage
  • Security — Data encryption and compliance

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