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Quickstart

Create an organization, get an API key, send a transaction, and inspect the decision path.

Fastest path to validation

Quickstart is the shortest route from onboarding to a verified first decision inside WatchTower.

Operational confirmation

The goal is not only a successful API call, but a visible decision, alert path, and case workflow.

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What you will do

This page gets a new WatchTower tenant from zero to a working first integration.

By the end of this quickstart, you should be able to

  • create the organization and first admin workspace
  • generate the organization ingestion key
  • send a real transaction payload into WatchTower
  • inspect the returned decision
  • confirm the alert and case workflow is reachable
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Before you begin

  • organization name
  • first admin email
  • a safe test or staging environment
  • a plan for where the ingestion key will be stored
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Setup steps

  1. Create the organization and first admin workspace
  2. Generate the ingestion API key
  3. Prepare the first request with x-api-key and idempotency-key headers
  4. Send a sample transaction payload
  5. Inspect the decision and confirm operational visibility
  6. Invite your team once ingestion is working
Best practice

Always use a fresh idempotency-key for each logical ingestion attempt, even in test mode.

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Expected outcome

After the first successful transaction, your team should be able to see the decision in WatchTower and confirm that alerts and cases can now be tested in a controlled way.