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Authdog offers a range of guides to help you build and work with Authdog. These guides cover a broad range of topics, from authentication flows and user management to security, billing, and deployment.
Find the right guide for your needs, whether you're just getting started or looking to implement advanced features.
Learning
Task-oriented guides for shipping authentication, users, and access control.
Explore by feature
Authentication
How sign-in, identity providers, and Authdog sessions fit together.
Authorization
RBAC, ABAC, and FGA models enforced per environment.
Sessions & tokens
Session cookies, JWTs, and token lifecycle.
Multi-tenancy
Tenants, projects, and environment isolation.
Organizations
B2B organizations, membership, and org-scoped access.
Provisioning
SCIM and inbound user provisioning.
Lidar
Identity threat detection: monitors, correlation, and signals.
Explore the console
A reference for every module in the Authdog console, screen by screen.
Console overview
How the console is laid out, and how context switching works.
Tenants
Create, join, and administer tenant workspaces.
Organizations
Group tenants under an organization and centralize billing.
Projects
Create web, machine-to-machine, and MCP projects.
Environments
Dev, staging, and production environments and public keys.
Project settings
Project details, environments, and deletion.
Dashboard
Read the environment health board: traffic, growth, readiness.
Users
Explore users, provisioning, waitlist, and escalation.
Elevate
Request, approve, and audit just-in-time access.
Authentication
Sign-in methods, providers, features, clients, and policies.
Sessions
Signing keys, token lifetime, and claims preview.
Authorization
Pick RBAC, ABAC, or FGA and configure roles and policies.
Audit
Search events, inspect types, and infer payload schemas.
Lidar
Enable Lidar, tune monitors, and triage signals.
Vault
API keys, encrypted secrets, and KMS keys per environment.
Billing
Define the plans and entitlements your application sells.
Domains
Serve identity flows from your own hostname.
Redirects
Website, callback, sign-out, and compliance URLs.
Branding
Theme, fonts, layouts, assets, and copy for hosted pages.
Notifications
Email providers, templates, and SIEM delivery channels.
MCP servers
Register MCP servers and test agent auth in the playground.
Support Center
Docs, Discord, feature requests, and gated-feature access.
Explore product features
Admin portal
Short-lived customer setup links for SSO, directory sync, and domain verification.
Widgets
Embeddable user interface widgets for authentication and account flows.
Machine identity
Authenticate services, workloads, and machine-to-machine requests.
Custom domains
Serve authentication flows from your own domain.
Email providers
Configure delivery providers and transactional identity email.
Enterprise SSO
Connect enterprise identity providers with SAML and OIDC.
Passkeys
Review current WebAuthn availability and production requirements.
Multi-factor authentication
Protect accounts with additional authentication factors.
Vault
Store environment secrets via console or API, with AES + RSA KMS keys.
Audit logs
Track administrative and security-sensitive activity.
Events & webhooks
React to Authdog lifecycle events in external systems.
Actions
Run synchronous hooks during auth to allow, deny, or enrich the flow.
Feature flags
Ship behind flags with targeting rules and percentage rollouts.
Pipes
Let users connect third-party accounts so your app can pull their data.
Fine-grained authorization
Understand Authdog's relationship model and current API availability.
AuthZEN API
Ask Authdog for access decisions over the OpenID AuthZEN Authorization API.
JWT claims
Add custom claims to the tokens Authdog issues for an environment.
Billing
Sell plans through Stripe and gate features on a subscription.
Bot protection
Put a reCAPTCHA challenge in front of hosted authentication flows.
Account portal
Hosted account portal for end users.
Component reference
UI component reference for auth surfaces.
Custom flows
Build custom identity flows.
Integrations
Third-party integrations.
Deployments
Deploy Authdog-backed apps.
Testing
Test auth flows locally and in CI.
Security
Security model and hardening guidance.
Explore by frontend framework
Next.js
App Router callback exchange and client identity integration.
React Elements
Presentational identity components for React applications.
Remix
Loaders, actions, and session handling.
React Native / Expo
Mobile sign-in flows with deep links and secure storage.
SvelteKit
Hooks, load functions, and form actions.
TanStack Start
Full-stack React with server functions and streaming.
Vue
Composables and client integration for Vue 3 applications.
Angular
Guards, interceptors, and standalone providers.
Astro
Middleware and endpoints for content-first sites.
Gatsby
Static and hybrid sites with auth at edge.
RedwoodJS
Full-stack Jamstack with Authdog-backed identity.
Explore by backend framework
Connectors
Over sixty external identity providers, from social login to enterprise SSO. Browse all connectors.
Migrate
Move an existing identity provider to Authdog without losing users or sessions.
From Auth0
Move from Auth0 to Authdog.
From Firebase
Move from Firebase Auth to Authdog.
From WorkOS
Move from WorkOS to Authdog.
From Supabase
Move from Supabase Auth to Authdog.
From Cognito
Move from Amazon Cognito to Authdog.
From Clerk
Move from Clerk to Authdog.
From Descope
Move from Descope to Authdog.
From Stytch
Move from Stytch to Authdog.
From Better Auth
Move from Better Auth to Authdog.
From another provider
Plan a migration from another identity provider.