> ## Documentation Index
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# FireHydrant

> Connect FireHydrant to let ewake reference your incident history and retrospectives during investigations.

<Info>
  **What you'll get:** ewake can read your FireHydrant incidents on demand, so an investigation can surface "this looks like the incident you ran three weeks ago" instead of starting from a blank page.
</Info>

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## Prerequisites

* A FireHydrant account with permission to create API keys
* At least **read access to incidents** on the key you create

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## Configuration

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create an API key in FireHydrant">
    In FireHydrant, go to **Settings** → **API Keys** → create a key with read access to incidents.

    Copy the key immediately, FireHydrant shows it once.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open the FireHydrant integration in ewake">
    In your ewake dashboard, go to **Integrations** → **Incident Management** → **FireHydrant** → click **Connect with API key**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Paste the key">
    | Field       | Value                     |
    | ----------- | ------------------------- |
    | **API Key** | The key created in Step 1 |
  </Step>

  <Step title="Test and save">
    Click **Test connection** to verify the credentials, then click **Save**.

    <Check>
      FireHydrant is connected. Ewake can now pull incident history into its investigations.
    </Check>
  </Step>
</Steps>

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## What ewake reads

| Data                             | Used for                                                           |
| -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Incidents                        | Matching a live signal against past incidents on the same services |
| Incident timelines and summaries | Recalling what was tried and what resolved it last time            |

<Note>
  Ewake reads FireHydrant only. It never declares incidents, changes severity, edits timelines, or posts on your behalf.
</Note>

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## Related

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Incident.io" icon="siren" href="/integrations/alerting/incident-io">
    The other incident-management integration, with the same investigation benefits.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Rootly" icon="life-ring" href="/integrations/alerting/rootly">
    Connect Rootly instead if that's where your incident history lives.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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Need help connecting FireHydrant? Contact [support@ewake.ai](/support).