Quick Start

Tip

Your account setup will take about 5 minutes. Keep an eye out for an email with a link to set your password. While you are waiting check out our guide on getting setup.

Let’s start setting up your environment so you can begin using Hawkeye to monitor your resources and start an investigation session.

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Fig.1 - A walkthrough of how to setup and run a Hawkeye project

Quick Start Guide

To set up an investigation session, you’ll need to go through the following steps:

Step 1 Set up a connection to your cloud resources.

Step 2 Set up a project that uses the data from the connection.

Step 3 Wait for the project to analyze the available data.

Step 4 Start an investigation session for the project.

Step 1: Setting up a connection

To start, you’ll need to create a connection to your cloud resources, allowing Hawkeye to pull in telemetry data.

1. Access connections: From the left-hand navigation menu, click on Connections and click the New Connection card.

   

   Fig.2 - Access connections

2. Create a new connection:

   Select the connection type you want to create (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.). Clicking on it will open the credential setup page.

   

   Fig.3 - Choose the type of connection

   • On the credentials page, enter the required details, as shown in this FireHydrant example. When you’re done, click Save to create the connection.

   • After saving, you’ll see a confirmation message: “Connection created successfully.”

Note

For a step-by-step guide to setting up a connection, refer to the guide specific to that connection type.

Step 2: Setting up a project

With a connection established, the next step is to set up a project.

Navigate to Projects:

After saving the connection, you’ll be prompted to create a project.

Fig.4 - Navigate to projects

• Click the New Project card.
• Enter the project name and description, and choose a badge color.
• Select the connection you created earlier.
• Confirm the project details and click Save.

Alternatively, you can navigate to the Projects section from the left-hand menu.

Note

For a step-by-step guide to setting up a project, refer to this guide project.

Step 4: Start a session for investigation

After your project has been successfully created, a new session will start automatically, allowing you to begin interacting with Hawkeye.

Alternatively, you can start a session manually: go to the Project section, select your project.

Fig.5 - Start a new session