Cookie policy

Last updated · Edition 1

Draft 2026-11-01, pending owner review. Not legal advice; the owner reviews this before it is relied on.

Watchtower uses no analytics or advertising cookies. Page counts on the landing page are cookieless. Everything below is either required to sign in and run the console, or (the two referral rows) optional and off until you accept it. You can change your choice at any time with the "Cookie settings" button in the footer.

Name

Provider

Category

Purpose

Expiry

wt_session

Watchtower

necessary

Keeps you signed in to the console.

Session lifetime set by your organization's policy; cleared at sign-out (cookie)

wt_idp

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers which identity provider to continue with after sign-in.

12 hours (cookie)

wt_oidc

Watchtower

necessary

Protects the OpenID Connect sign-in flow (state and nonce).

Minutes, deleted when the flow ends (cookie)

wt_oidc_id

Watchtower

necessary

Protects the OpenID Connect sign-in flow for the identity-provider hand-off.

Minutes, deleted when the flow ends (cookie)

wt_oidc_gen

Watchtower

necessary

Protects the generic OpenID Connect sign-in flow (state and nonce).

Minutes, deleted when the flow ends (cookie)

__Host-wt_github

Watchtower

necessary

Protects the sign-in with GitHub flow.

Minutes, deleted when the flow ends (cookie)

__Host-wt_saml_req

Watchtower

necessary

Ties a SAML single-sign-on attempt to the browser that started it.

10 minutes (cookie)

__Host-wta

Watchtower

necessary

Keeps a viewer signed in to a customer's hosted activity page (set on that page's host, never on the console).

Until the viewer session ends, at most its lifetime (cookie)

wt_actsso

Watchtower

necessary

Protects the single sign-on flow of a hosted activity page (state, nonce and PKCE verifier).

10 minutes (cookie)

wt-theme

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers your light or dark theme. Never sent to a server.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wt-language

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers your language. Never sent to a server.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wt-recent

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers the commands you used last in the command palette.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wt-my-team

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers the team you picked on the overview.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wt-announce-off

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers which announcements you dismissed.

Until you close the tab (sessionStorage)

wt-auditor-token

Watchtower

necessary

Holds the access token of an auditor session so a reload keeps it.

Until you close the tab (sessionStorage)

wt-share:*

Watchtower

necessary

Holds the unlock state of a shared dashboard link for this visit.

Until you close the tab (sessionStorage)

wt.rum.segments

Watchtower

necessary

Keeps the saved segments of the RUM sessions list.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wt.sso-org

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers the organization you last signed in to with single sign-on.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wt.profiles.exclude.*

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers per-service stack exclusions in the profile viewer.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wt.filters.*

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers dashboard filters you chose to keep.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wt.plugin.*

Watchtower

necessary

Holds the settings a console plugin saves for you.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wta:*

Watchtower

necessary

Holds the viewer claims of a hosted activity page for this visit.

Until you close the tab (sessionStorage)

wta-prefs:*

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers display choices on a hosted activity page.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wta-views:*

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers saved views on a hosted activity page.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wta-seen:*

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers what you last read on a hosted activity page.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

wta-cache:*

Watchtower

necessary

Keeps the last loaded rows of a hosted activity page for a faster reopen.

Until you close the tab (sessionStorage)

wta-pin:*

Watchtower

necessary

Pins the signed log head so a later visit can check nothing changed.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

watchtower:chat-user

Watchtower

necessary

Remembers who was last identified to the support chat, so a sign-out resets it.

Until you clear site data (localStorage)

forumulate_session

Forumulate

necessary

Keeps you signed in to the docs and community.

30 days (cookie)

fm_signed_in

Forumulate

necessary

Tells the docs pages that you are signed in.

30 days (cookie)

cflx_vis_org_*

Forumulate

necessary

Anonymous visit marker used to count unique readers of the docs.

12 hours (cookie)

cflx_vis_*

Forumulate

necessary

Anonymous visit marker used to count unique readers of the docs.

12 hours (cookie)

chatly:*

Chatly

necessary

Chat session and visitor data. Set only after you open the chat.

Persistent (localStorage); session (sessionStorage)

referalli_ctx

Referalli

referrals

Remembers the code of the person who invited you so they are credited.

30 days (cookie and localStorage)

referally_ctx

Referalli

referrals

Legacy name of the referral marker, written until 2027-01-31.

30 days (cookie and localStorage)

CookieMunch

Cookie Munch

necessary

Stores your cookie choices.

12 months (cookie)

__fc_observed

Cookie Munch

necessary

Helps the consent tool keep its list of cookies up to date.

Session (sessionStorage)

Declaration

This list is also shown live by the consent tool:

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