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Valve.

Your pipelines, where you can actually see them — in your menu bar and on your phone. Valve is the ingestlayer companion app for macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android: a live feed of the events your pipelines route, with a push the moment something you care about happens. The dashboard you already know, now a glance away.

What it does

A live feed, and the dashboard.

There's nothing to set up beyond signing in — no separate account, nothing to host. Valve does two things:

Connect it

Sign in with one key.

Open the app and paste in a single il_ API key — the same kind you use for the SDK and the REST API, created in the dashboard under your keys. That's the whole setup. The key lives in your device's system keychain, never in plain storage, and only ever shows you your own organisation's data.

The live feed

Route events to your menu bar.

Add valve as a destination on a pipeline, the same way you add Slack or a webhook from the destinations page. From then on every event that pipeline routes shows up in the feed, tagged with the pipeline's action badge so you can tell at a glance what happened to it. The menu-bar icon carries the unread count; opening the feed clears it.

a row in the feed
RTE   user.signup → Slack
      ada@example.com · plan: growth
      signups pipeline · just now

Closed the laptop for an hour? The feed catches you up on everything that arrived while you were away — nothing slips past because the app wasn't open.

Push

A nudge when it matters.

On the desktop you get a notification when something lands and the window isn't in focus. On iOS and Android it reaches you even when the app is closed — a new signup, a payment, a dead-letter alert, whatever that pipeline is for. Tap the notification and you land right on the event that triggered it. Because valve is a destination like any other, you decide what deserves a buzz: only the pipelines you point at it interrupt you.

Platforms

One app, four surfaces.

It's the same app on every surface — same warm paper, mono type, and action badges as the dashboard — so the feed in your menu bar feels like the feed in your pocket.

Download valve and point your first pipeline at it — you'll see events arrive within seconds.


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