# Guides / How To **URL:** https://forum.alumio.com/c/ipaas-general/guides-how-to/30.md [Latest](https://forum.alumio.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.alumio.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.alumio.com/tags.md) --- ## [Where do I start with Alumio?](https://forum.alumio.com/t/where-do-i-start-with-alumio/43)
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Intro Someone in the office has decided Alumio is the solution to your problems. But before you start solving your existing problems, you now have one extra, how do you use Alumio? There’s no need to buckle up, this … --- ## [About the Guides / How To category](https://forum.alumio.com/t/about-the-guides-how-to-category/36)
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You’ve found the best way and are proud to share it with others. --- ## [Deploy Alumio Configurations Across Environments Using APIs & CI/CD](https://forum.alumio.com/t/deploy-alumio-configurations-across-environments-using-apis-ci-cd/3047)
**Author:** [@Gugi](https://forum.alumio.com/u/Gugi)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2026, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.alumio.com/t/deploy-alumio-configurations-across-environments-using-apis-ci-cd/3047 "2026-04-03T08:34:11Z")
Managing configuration changes across Alumio environments (e.g., Sandbox → Production) can be challenging, especially since there is currently no out-of-the-box feature that fully supports end-to-end deployment workflows… --- ## [Find request in tasks](https://forum.alumio.com/t/find-request-in-tasks/1335)
**Author:** [@tommy](https://forum.alumio.com/u/tommy)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.alumio.com/t/find-request-in-tasks/1335 "2024-10-01T14:57:32Z")
In our access logs we see requests (which contain a bug) come in. We want to see from which task it comes but we have lots of tasks on that timestamp. Is there a way to search for this? We see some datadog metadata for e… --- ## [How to compare two dynamic values in conditional transformer](https://forum.alumio.com/t/how-to-compare-two-dynamic-values-in-conditional-transformer/934)
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Table of Contents Use Case Steps fo follow Use Case In most cases, you need to do some transformations or mapping if a property meets certain conditions. In order to achieve that, Alumio has Conditional Transformer, wh… --- ## [How to use plain text response decoder](https://forum.alumio.com/t/how-to-use-plain-text-response-decoder/759)
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Table of contents Introduction Plain text response decoder Introduction Sometimes when trying to connect to an external API through Alumio, you may run into the issue. For example, when you make a GET request to the ex… --- ## [How to properly create a connection w/ least amount of configuring](https://forum.alumio.com/t/how-to-properly-create-a-connection-w-least-amount-of-configuring/192)
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Answer This is a best practice bear minimum 101 way of setting up a good re-usable configuration. Create environment variables for base URI’s, API Keys, Usernames etc. Use these in all the following by using ‘${VARIA…