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# Corbado Observe: Observability for Authentication and Passkeys

> Track authentication journeys, identify drop-offs, and improve login conversion with Corbado Observe.

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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](/corbado-observe/tracking/applications) and [tags](/corbado-observe/tracking/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](/corbado-observe/tracking/user) so you can trace individual authentication paths, retries, and method switches.
* **Make decisions visible**\
  Track explicit [user and system choices](/corbado-observe/tracking/decisions) (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

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    Install the SDK, initialize the tracker, and send your first event in under 10 minutes.
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    Explore the data model and learn how flows, subflows, decisions, and events fit together.
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