Getting Started with Taskless Cloud

Taskless Cloud provides a fully managed telemetry platform that eliminates operational overhead while delivering enterprise-grade features. This guide will walk you through setting up Taskless Cloud from installation to running your first instrumented application.

1. Installing the Taskless Loader
2. Installing Taskless Packs
3. Modifying your start command

Why Choose Cloud Over CLI?

Taskless Cloud is perfect for teams and developers who want:

• A managed OLAP database - removes the burden of building out an observability stack for API services
• Cloud management - add and remove packs from your production runtime without redeploying your application

In addition to the benefits of the Open Source CLI:

• A full open source solution - Packs and the loader are fully open source
• Existing telemetry - Use Taskless alongside your current observability tools without vendor lock-in

Install the Taskless Loader

The Taskless loader is the core component that instruments your application. Install it for your programming language:

Node.js

sh npm install @taskless/loader

Install Packs via Taskless Cloud

Taskless Cloud provides a curated collection of Packs, without the overhead of managing the installations yourself.

1. Log into your Taskless Cloud dashboard
2. Navigate to your Packs menu
3. Browse available packs in the “Instrumentation” section
4. Enable desired packs with a single click

Additional Packs via CLI

Need packs beyond what’s available in Taskless Cloud? You can still install additional open-source packs using the CLI:

pnpx @taskless/pack install <pack-url>

For detailed instructions on CLI pack installation, see our CLI Getting Started guide.

Start Your Application

Once you have the loader configured, you can start your application with Taskless Cloud instrumentation:

Environment

# Set your Taskless Cloud credentials
export TASKLESS_API_KEY="your-api-key"

# Start your application

npm start

Node.js - package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node --import=@taskless/loader ./src/index.js"
  }
}