# Witness Terminal documentation

> Learn how to set up Witness Terminal for your team, monitor a place, investigate firsthand reports, and record a response.

Witness Terminal puts firsthand reports and their evidence on a map alongside outside context. Use this handbook to set up a workspace and follow an event from the first signal to a decision your team can revisit.

[Open Terminal](https://terminal.thewitnessapp.com/)

## Browse the handbook

- [Access and sign-in](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/access): Open your organization’s Terminal workspace, verify your sign-in, and recover access if a password or code fails.
- [Set up a workspace](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/workspace-setup): Choose the places and decisions your team cares about, assign workspace roles, and check the handoff before relying on alerts.
- [Build your first watch](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/first-watch): Set up an area watch in Witness Terminal, confirm that it covers the place you care about, and test where alerts are sent.
- [Investigate an event](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/investigate-event): Open a Witness event, compare firsthand evidence with surrounding context, and see how the record changed over time.
- [Respond to an alert](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/respond-to-alert): Use the Watch inbox to assess an alert, assign an owner, and keep a record of the response and the evidence behind it.
- [Export and hand off a record](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/export-and-handoff): Choose a format for a permitted Terminal record and share a handoff with its time, location precision, evidence and use restrictions.
- [Reports, events and situations](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/read-the-record): Learn how a firsthand Witness report relates to an event, a wider situation and the outside context around it.
- [Troubleshooting](https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs/troubleshooting): Diagnose a missing Terminal alert, a blank map, a source with no updates, or an unavailable export.

## A warehouse fire near a port

A firsthand report starts the record. As more evidence arrives, the team can review the event, check nearby activity, and decide whether to change a delivery.

_Example event. Ships, flights and camera images are live, captured 7 November 2026._

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Web page: https://www.thewitnessapp.com/terminal/docs
Index for agents: https://www.thewitnessapp.com/llms.txt