How To Guides

How-To Guides

Welcome to the RunReveal How-To Guides section. Here you’ll find step-by-step instructions for common tasks and use cases to help you get the most out of RunReveal.

Available Guides

Onboarding Guide

Complete step-by-step guide for getting started with RunReveal’s security data platform.

  • Account setup and workspace configuration
  • Connecting your first data sources
  • Creating detections and configuring alerts
  • Exploring platform features and AI Chat
  • Setting up dashboards and CLI tools

Quick Start: Detections, Signals, and Alerts

Learn the fundamentals of RunReveal’s detection system with hands-on examples.

  • Creating webhook sources for test data
  • Building SQL-based detection rules
  • Understanding signals vs alerts
  • Setting up notification workflows

Collecting Nginx Logs

Learn how to use Reveald, our efficient log collection daemon, to collect and process Nginx logs for visualization in RunReveal.

  • Installation and configuration of Reveald
  • Setting up a structured webhook source in RunReveal
  • Configuring Nginx to forward logs to Reveald
  • Viewing and analyzing your Nginx logs in RunReveal

Kubernetes Logs

Configure log collection from Kubernetes clusters using Reveald as a daemonset.

  • Setting up Reveald as a Kubernetes daemonset
  • Configuring Reveald to collect pod logs
  • Forwarding logs to RunReveal
  • Best practices for Kubernetes log collection

Need More Help?

If you need assistance with implementation or have questions about collecting logs from other sources, please reach out through:

IntroductionOnboarding