# Terminal > Monitor incidents near sites and routes, investigate disruptions with firsthand reports and map context, and record decisions in Witness Terminal. Witness Terminal is a live event monitoring workspace for teams. It brings firsthand reports together with ships, flights, cameras, outages, news and prices at the same place and time, so your team can investigate what happened and decide what to do. ## It starts with one person who is there A report is more than a picture. It arrives with where and when it was captured, recorded at the moment of capture, and it keeps a confidence that moves as other people and other evidence come in. ## Many reports become one event When several people report the same place and time, Witness builds one event and keeps every report attached: what was seen, what is claimed, what is disputed, what nobody knows yet, and how the record changed with each new report. ## Bigger events stay together Related events nearby are grouped by place and time into one situation, so a team sees the whole thing instead of four separate alerts. ## Then line it up with everything else Open any event and look around it: everything recorded at that place and time, within the distance you choose. Your own data sits on the same map. ## Put the event next to the price Watch a price for a move and see what is happening at the places behind it. Compare commodity history, and keep the event and the move on one screen when you explain the call. ## Decide, and keep the record Alerts reach the right people in Slack, Teams or email. Each one ends in a decision with an owner. Responses keep the steps and what was known when you decided, and if a report behind a decision changes later, the decision is flagged. - **Witness reports:** Firsthand, from the people who are there - **Ships and aircraft:** Who is waiting outside the berths, what is overhead - **Cameras:** Public cameras that can see the area - **Weather and hazards:** Warnings, storms, quakes, fires - **Power and internet outages:** Where the lights or the network went down - **News:** Placed where the story happens - **Markets and commodities:** The prices that move with it - **Your own data:** Files, feeds and the systems you already run Witness reports come from people who are there. Everything else on the map shows what they touch. ## Monitor sites, routes, and the events that affect them - **Monitor incidents near a site:** Watch an area around a warehouse, office or venue for nearby incidents. Review the evidence and surrounding activity before deciding whether to change access, shifts or deliveries. - **Investigate port and route disruptions:** When a shipment is delayed, look at reports around the port or route alongside available ship and flight activity, outages and news. - **Reconstruct what happened at a place:** Use the event history and place-and-time view to see what was recorded, when it changed, and what the team knew when it made a decision. - **Put commodity prices in context:** Review commodity prices alongside reports and disruptions at places that matter to the market. Use the context to decide what warrants a closer look. ## Set up for your team Each account is set up with the team that uses it. Witness does the setup with you. - **Your places and assets:** Ports, sites, routes, ships, flights - **Your sources:** Turn any in or out - **Your systems:** Connected and kept to your organization - **Your alerts:** And who receives each one - **Your team:** Admin, analyst, view only - **Your layout:** Panels where you want them ## See it on your own places Access is granted per organization. Tell us the places, routes and markets you watch, and the setup starts from those. https://www.thewitnessapp.com/access?role=data&want=terminal Learn how to set up your workspace, create a watch and respond to an alert. [Read the Terminal docs](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs) _Example event. Ships, flights and camera images are live, captured 7 November 2026._ --- Web page: https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal Index for agents: https://www.thewitnessapp.com/llms.txt