Getting started
From sign-up to the first trace in about five minutes.
1. Sign up on the PowerTraces portal and confirm the email. 2. Create an organization and choose its address (lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens). The address is permanent because the app and the telemetry endpoints use it. The app lives at https://<address>.powertraces.com and members sign in with their portal account. 3. Choose a plan; every plan starts with a free trial (card required, handled by Paddle). 4. Inside the app, create a workspace (one per app or group of services), then create a key on the Credentials page. 5. Point the OpenTelemetry exporter at the organization's endpoints (see sending_telemetry) and set OTEL_SERVICE_NAME. 6. Within a minute the service appears on Health and its requests on Traces. The Docs page inside the app shows copy-ready snippets with the workspace's own endpoints and a checklist of what is already working. Tip: set service.version and deployment.environment from day one; they turn on Deployments and per-environment views.