Corbado Observe: Observability for Authentication and Passkeys

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1. Introduction

Corbado Observe is an observability tool for authentication flows. It captures structured events from your web app and your native apps, maps them to a clear data model and shows you how users move through login, sign-up and recovery. Whether you use passkeys, passwords, email OTP, social login or a combination, Observe gives you one view across all of them.

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2. Why use Corbado Observe?

Most teams have limited visibility into what happens between “user lands on login” and “user is authenticated”. Observe closes that gap:

• See what your backend cannot. A user who never gets past the passkey dialog produces no backend event at all. Observe captures the client-side reality: system dialogs, credential managers, silent cancellations and device-specific failures.
• Measure conversion end-to-end. Track every step of login, sign-up and recovery so you can pinpoint where users drop off.
• Compare authentication methods. See how passkeys, passwords, email OTP and social login perform side by side.
• Segment by channel and context. Use applications and tags to compare web, iOS, Android or any custom dimension.
• Trace individual journeys. Link events to your users to follow retries and method switches for one person.

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3. How it works

You add a lightweight SDK to your frontend. It observes the authentication journey on the client, sends structured events to Corbado and Corbado maps them onto flows, subflows and decisions that the management console turns into funnels, error analysis and per-user journeys. Observe is client-side only and never sits in the authentication path. See How Observe works for the full pipeline and how Observe compares to the analytics and monitoring tools you already run.

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4. Two ways to send data

See Integration paths to choose.

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5. Next steps