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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watchtower | necessary | Keeps you signed in to the console. | Session lifetime set by your organization's policy; cleared at sign-out (cookie) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers which identity provider to continue with after sign-in. | 12 hours (cookie) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Protects the OpenID Connect sign-in flow (state and nonce). | Minutes, deleted when the flow ends (cookie) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Protects the OpenID Connect sign-in flow for the identity-provider hand-off. | Minutes, deleted when the flow ends (cookie) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Protects the generic OpenID Connect sign-in flow (state and nonce). | Minutes, deleted when the flow ends (cookie) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Protects the sign-in with GitHub flow. | Minutes, deleted when the flow ends (cookie) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Ties a SAML single-sign-on attempt to the browser that started it. | 10 minutes (cookie) |
| 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) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Protects the single sign-on flow of a hosted activity page (state, nonce and PKCE verifier). | 10 minutes (cookie) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers your light or dark theme. Never sent to a server. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers your language. Never sent to a server. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers the commands you used last in the command palette. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers the team you picked on the overview. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers which announcements you dismissed. | Until you close the tab (sessionStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Holds the access token of an auditor session so a reload keeps it. | Until you close the tab (sessionStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Holds the unlock state of a shared dashboard link for this visit. | Until you close the tab (sessionStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Keeps the saved segments of the RUM sessions list. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers the organization you last signed in to with single sign-on. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers per-service stack exclusions in the profile viewer. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers dashboard filters you chose to keep. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Holds the settings a console plugin saves for you. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Holds the viewer claims of a hosted activity page for this visit. | Until you close the tab (sessionStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers display choices on a hosted activity page. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers saved views on a hosted activity page. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers what you last read on a hosted activity page. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Keeps the last loaded rows of a hosted activity page for a faster reopen. | Until you close the tab (sessionStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Pins the signed log head so a later visit can check nothing changed. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Watchtower | necessary | Remembers who was last identified to the support chat, so a sign-out resets it. | Until you clear site data (localStorage) |
| Forumulate | necessary | Keeps you signed in to the docs and community. | 30 days (cookie) |
| Forumulate | necessary | Tells the docs pages that you are signed in. | 30 days (cookie) |
| Forumulate | necessary | Anonymous visit marker used to count unique readers of the docs. | 12 hours (cookie) |
| Forumulate | necessary | Anonymous visit marker used to count unique readers of the docs. | 12 hours (cookie) |
| Chatly | necessary | Chat session and visitor data. Set only after you open the chat. | Persistent (localStorage); session (sessionStorage) |
| Referalli | referrals | Remembers the code of the person who invited you so they are credited. | 30 days (cookie and localStorage) |
| Referalli | referrals | Legacy name of the referral marker, written until 2027-01-31. | 30 days (cookie and localStorage) |
| Cookie Munch | necessary | Stores your cookie choices. | 12 months (cookie) |
| Cookie Munch | necessary | Helps the consent tool keep its list of cookies up to date. | Session (sessionStorage) |
Declaration
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