Getting started

This part gets blockwatcher running on your machine: building or installing it, watching one real pipeline end to end, driving that same pipeline through a browser instead of the command line, or embedding the engine in another process. It is for a reader about to run blockwatcher for the first time, not for one auditing its internals.

• Quickstart: one pipeline running end to end against a live testnet contract.
• Installation and building: GitHub Release archive, GHCR images, building from source, or a local Docker build.
• Your first monitor: the quickstart’s example walked more slowly, then changed. The same USDC monitor over a logs subgraph is Monitoring ERC-20 transfers [Subgraph]. A Stellar Testnet twin is Monitoring Stellar Testnet [RPC].
• The dashboard: the same operations through a browser instead of the API and the CLI, either as the Compose stack or next to a local cargo run example.
• Embedding in a host process: run the engine inside another binary, with a host-owned sink and shutdown.