# Get started

Get started is the meeting-oriented path for stakeholders to align on telemetry sources, ingestion architecture, retention targets, alerting needs, and phased adoption of the CtrlB control plane before deeper implementation work begins in production environments.

## Metadata

- **Canonical HTML**: https://ctrlb.ai/get-started
- **Last updated**: 2026-05-01

## Agenda ideas

| Topic | Why it matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Data paths | Logs/metrics/traces sources |
| Storage | Retention vs cost |
| Query | Teams’ dashboards & alerts |

## Related

- [Book a demo](https://ctrlb.ai/booking)
- [Pricing](https://ctrlb.ai/pricing)