From zero to dashboards in five minutes with the CLI

Install the agent, ship your first logs and build a live dashboard before your coffee cools.

You do not need a migration plan to try Helix. You need one endpoint and one event. Here is the whole thing.

Send an event

Any structured JSON over HTTPS works. Tag it with a service name so it groups cleanly.

curl -X POST https://ingest.helix.dev/v1/logs \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $HELIX_KEY" \
  -d '{"service":"checkout","level":"info","msg":"order placed"}'

Query it back

Open HelixQL and filter to your service. Your event is already there.

Wire it into CI

Once a single event lands, the same endpoint drops into your deploy pipeline: emit a structured deploy event on every release and you get a free annotation layer across every dashboard. Now "what changed at 14:02?" answers itself instead of starting a thread.

From five minutes to a habit

The CLI is the fast path in, but the point is the loop: instrument, query, learn, repeat. Keep the queries you run during an incident and the next responder starts where you finished.