Telemetry
For Cursor users shipping product instrumentation

Cursor Telemetry Setup

A copyable setup prompt for adding event tables, funnel tracking, and dashboards from inside Cursor.

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Why this works
  • Works with React, API routes, workers, and server actions.
  • Keeps event names, table names, and fields consistent across the repo.
  • Turns implementation context into an activation and retention dashboard.

Agent prompt

Paste this into your coding agent

Replace YOUR_API_KEY after signup, then ask the agent to run the product flow and verify the first events.

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Cursor Telemetry Setup setup prompt

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Instrument the acquisition and revenue funnel with Telemetry.

Use /skill.md and this Telemetry API key: YOUR_API_KEY

Please add structured events for:
1. Marketing page views, CTA clicks, pricing plan selection, docs CTA clicks, and prompt copies.
2. Registration attempts, successful registrations, onboarding steps, team creation, first API key creation, and first telemetry event received.
3. Checkout start, checkout success, plan changes, billing portal opens, and payment failures.
4. Activation milestones: first table created, first query run, first dashboard created, first alert created, and second active day.

Create a dashboard for visitor to signup, signup to activated team, activated team to paid, and weekly retention by activation milestone.

Setup steps

  1. 1Paste the setup prompt into Cursor with your Telemetry API key.
  2. 2Tell Cursor which product journey matters most.
  3. 3Have Cursor add events and run the flow locally.
  4. 4Use Telemetry to check funnel dropoff and return behavior.

Events to capture

marketing_cta_clickedregister_successonboarding_step_completedfirst_event_receivedquery_rundashboard_created

Questions unlocked

  • Which CTA source sends users who activate?
  • Where do new users leave onboarding?
  • Which features correlate with week-two retention?

Next step

Create the API key your agent will use

The free plan is enough to run the prompt, send test events, and review the first dashboard.

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