> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.corbado.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Observe API reference

> Query and export Observe data, manage user-data requests and send events from your backend.

The Observe API provides programmatic access to authentication journeys and analytics at:

```text theme={null}
https://api.cloud.corbado.io/v1
```

Use an [Observe API key](/api-reference/observe/authentication) with the permissions needed for each operation. This reference covers customer integration endpoints; the [CLI](/corbado-observe/tools/cli) also uses tooling endpoints whose schemas can change.

| Task                               | Start here                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| ---------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Read metrics                       | [Time-series definitions](/api-reference/observe/time-series-definitions), [time series](/api-reference/observe/time-series) and [funnel metrics](/api-reference/observe/funnel-metrics)                 |
| Investigate a journey              | [Search flows](/api-reference/observe/search-flows), [subflows](/api-reference/observe/search-subflows), [events](/api-reference/observe/search-events) and [users](/api-reference/observe/search-users) |
| Inspect errors and alerts          | [Errors](/api-reference/observe/errors-list), [error impact](/api-reference/observe/error-impact) and [alert instances](/api-reference/observe/alert-instances)                                          |
| Mark a release or change           | [Create an annotation](/api-reference/observe/create-annotation)                                                                                                                                         |
| Export analytics data              | [Table exports](/api-reference/observe/table-exports) and [time-series exports](/api-reference/observe/create-time-series-export)                                                                        |
| Handle a user-data request         | [User data export and deletion](/api-reference/observe/user-data)                                                                                                                                        |
| Enrich a journey from your backend | [Send server-side events](/api-reference/observe/send-events)                                                                                                                                            |

Browser and native event collection belongs in the [Observe SDK integration](/sdks/overview). SDKs send events through project-scoped ingestion; do not copy a server API key into browser or mobile code.

For choosing between API queries and exported tables, see [Data access](/corbado-observe/data-access/overview). [Download the OpenAPI 3.1 specification](/api-reference/openapi/observe.yaml).