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Cordo user guide

This guide helps you get JSON logs into Cordo quickly, then gives you a shared reference you can send to teammates.

Cordo is a schema-learning log platform. You send JSON events into a stream; it discovers fields from what it sees, materializes them for fast query, and lets you filter and aggregate without writing JSON path extracts yourself.

Start here

If you are new to Cordo, follow these pages in order:

  1. What is Cordo? — streams, fields, shapes, views, and Insights.
  2. Create your first stream — sign in and create a stream.
  3. Send your first events — mint a stream API key and ingest sample JSON with curl.
  4. Five-minute tour — Streams, Fields, Insights, Query, Events, Views, and API tokens.

By the end of that path, you should have a stream, ingested events, and enough orientation to run your first query.

Use the rest of the guide

  • Concepts explains the nouns you see in the product: streams, fields, shapes, views, query, Insights, and tokens.
  • Workflows turns those concepts into practical routines such as ingesting logs (every supported method), querying events, and saving views. Start shipping with Ingest your logs.
  • Agents covers MCP and the Cursor plugin.
  • Reference collects quick lookup material such as filter operators, lookbacks, aggregates, and MCP tools.

This Getting started path is the stable entry point for new users.