Investigate your data
After ingesting your telemetry data, Chronosphere Observability Platform gives you access to all of your data to help identify issues and determine which services are causing latency.
To help understand your network's health, and to troubleshoot issues that arise, Observability Platform includes tools and features to provide actionable insights into each type of observability data you ingest.
Metrics
Metrics are aggregate measurements from your services and apps, such as a fixed number of periodic observations that record the count of requests handled over the span of a minute.
Observability Platform adds, drops, and aggregates those statistics for use in dashboards, traces, and alerts.
- Live Telemetry Analyzer provides a real-time view of incoming metrics.
- Telemetry Usage Analyzer provides a list of all metrics in Observability Platform, with usage and storage data.
- Metrics Explorer helps you investigate query requests, responses, and statistics.
Distributed traces
Distributed tracing involves mapping and analyzing requests as they flow through a distributed system. Traces include spans that an app emits, and connects related spans together. Each span represents an operation or unit of work.
- Trace Explorer identifies traces where problems are occurring.
- Trace Analyzer lets you view traces in real-time. Use this information to help understand how often your applications emit traces, and to troubleshoot spikes in ingest rates.
- Trace Metrics lets you create metrics from your trace data. You can display that metric in a dashboard for faster discovery.
Change events
Change events are data elements that describe real world changes or events that could have affected your environment. Events let you answer questions like "When did a particular service deploy last?"
Changes Explorer displays available change events to create a comprehensive view of all changes in your environment.
Logs
Logs represent data directly generated by apps and services, which you can ingest with Observability Platform to investigate issues with your systems and monitor their health.
Querying
Any aspect of Observability Platform that surfaces data to users requires querying. Dashboards, monitors, traces, and all other data views query for selected metrics, labels, or tags. Consolidate metrics with similar names or uses with derived telemetry.