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1. Introduction

Corbado Observe is an observability tool for authentication flows. It captures structured events from your application and maps them to a clear data model so you can understand user behavior, identify drop-offs, and improve login and sign-up conversion. Whether you use passkeys, passwords, email OTP, social login, or a combination, Corbado Observe gives you a unified view of how users move through your authentication experience.

2. Why use Corbado Observe?

Most teams have limited visibility into what happens between “user lands on login” and “user is authenticated”. Corbado Observe closes that gap:
  • Measure conversion end-to-end
    Track every step of login, sign-up, and recovery flows so you can pinpoint where users drop off.
  • Compare authentication methods
    Understand how passkeys, passwords, email OTP, and social login perform side by side.
  • Segment by channel and context
    Use applications and tags to compare behavior across web, iOS, Android, or any custom dimension like country or experiment variant.
  • Understand user-level journeys
    Link events to your users so you can trace individual authentication paths, retries, and method switches.
  • Make decisions visible
    Track explicit user and system choices (for example login method selection) to see where users hesitate or change their mind.

3. How it works

You integrate a lightweight JavaScript SDK into your application and send events at key moments in your authentication flow. Corbado Observe processes these events and maps them to a structured data model.

4. Next steps