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Use notebooks to gather information from multiple pages in Chronosphere Observability Platform. When you’re troubleshooting a problem, you might need graphs, charts, and other resources to review at the same time. Notebooks let you gather these resources in one place for ease of review. Your notebook isn’t visible to other users.

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Create a notebook

To create a new notebook:
  1. Click the Notebook Notebook icon icon in the right sidebar, or use the keyboard shortcut Command+I (on macOS).
  2. Click Create a notebook if you have no notebooks, or + New Notebook if you have existing notebooks.
  3. A notebook opens, with a name like Untitled notebook <date and time>. Click the name to change it.

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View a notebook

Your notebook is visible anywhere in Observability Platform. To open a notebook:
  1. Click the Notebook Notebook icon icon in the right sidebar, or use the keyboard shortcut Command+I (on macOS). The last notebook you accessed displays.
  2. To choose a different notebook, click the Select a notebook icon.
  3. Click a Name to open the selected notebook.

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Share a notebook

To share a notebook, open the notebook and then click Copy URL to copy a URL to the selected notebook.

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Add items to your notebook

You can add items from several Observability Platform pages to your notebook. To do so:
  1. In a supported resource, select the three vertical dots icon.
  2. Select Add to notebook.
  3. Select a notebook, or click +Add to new notebook to create a new notebook.
The selected resource displays at the bottom of your notebook. Notebooks support text anywhere in your notebook that isn’t an added resource. Notebook text supports a limited set of markdown functions. Some formatting options are available in the toolbar under the Notebook title bar. To delete an item from your notebook, click the item and then press Delete. To clear the entire notebook, click the Trash icon.

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Delete a notebook

To delete a notebook:
  1. Click the Notebook Notebook icon icon in the right sidebar, or use the keyboard shortcut Command+I (on macOS). The last notebook you accessed displays.
  2. Click the Select a notebook icon.
  3. Next to the notebook you want to delete, click the three vertical dots icon and then click Delete.

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Customize panels in a notebook

Elements in notebooks are customizable.

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Change the time range

You can change the time range for the entire notebook, or on a per-panel basis. Use this to compare different times for multiple copies of the same panel. For example, if there’s an anomaly in a graph in your notebook, add a second copy, and change the time range to the same time last week to compare patterns. To customize a panel’s time range:
  1. Hold the pointer over the panel.
  2. Click the clock icon.
  3. Select an available time range, or Custom time range to set your own.
The customized time range appears in the panel as a chip under the panel name. To reset the time range, click the x in the time range chip, or click the clock icon and select Use Notebook Time.

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Take a snapshot

Take a snapshot of a panel to capture specific data on a longer-term, static basis.
  1. Add a panel to your notebook.
  2. In the selected panel, click the three vertical dots icon.
  3. Select Capture snapshot.
The panel updates to indicate its snapshot status by adding Snapshot under the panel title. The snapshot time range displays next to the snapshot indicator. Zooming in on a time range updates the time range chip, and adds an x to the chip. Click the x to return to the original snapshot.

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Edit panel contents

To update a panel in a notebook:
  1. Click the edit icon.
  2. Edit the panel.
Not all panel editing operations are available in notebooks. For example, the panel type can’t be changed.

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Resources available to notebooks

In general, resources that look like dashboard panels can be added to a notebook. These panels are available on various pages throughout Observability Platform. You can add the following resources to notebooks: