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Chronosphere Observability Platform includes several dashboards to visualize information about itself and its usage within your organization. For example, Observability Platform dashboards let you pin tooltips and view nearby series when holding the pointer over a tooltip. To pin a tooltip, click while a tooltip is visible in a dashboard’s panel. This causes the tooltip to persist in place, rather than following the cursor as you move it across the visualization or disappearing after you move the cursor out of the panel. To unpin a tooltip, click the tooltip again.
Chronosphere-managed dashboards are read-only. You can’t edit or delete these dashboards. You can export a managed dashboard’s code representation and import it as a new dashboard that you can modify, but the imported copy won’t receive any updates that Chronosphere makes to the original managed dashboard.

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Ingest dashboards

Use the following dashboards to monitor metric ingestion and health in your Observability Platform tenant.

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Chronosphere Health Check

The Chronosphere Health Check dashboard monitors the stability and efficiency of telemetry data ingestion in your Observability Platform environment. This dashboard includes the following panels for metrics, change events, logs, and traces:
  • The Uptime Percentages (30d) panel depicts the trailing 30-day product uptime of ingest, query, and console services as a percentage, which provides a snapshot of the reliability of Observability Platform.
  • The Historical Uptime panel depicts the product uptime averages over time over the past 30 days.
The following panels are also included for metrics data:
  • The Invalid Data Points Rejected panel visualizes counts of data points that fail validation, with separate time series presented for each reason.
  • The Ingest Latency panel depicts the latency from the moment a metric is scraped to the moment it’s persisted, with lines for those latencies at notable percentiles. This data helps you understand the efficiency and speed of metric ingestion, and helps your organization identify and address potential bottlenecks by correlating ingestion changes with latency spikes.

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CloudWatch Metrics Ingestion & Health

The CloudWatch Metrics Ingestion & Health dashboard displays operational information about the health of your CloudWatch Metrics Streams integration with Observability Platform. Use this dashboard to ensure that CloudWatch metrics are streaming to Observability Platform.

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Chronosphere Collectors

The Chronosphere Collectors dashboard provides a high-level visualization of metrics and resources used by Chronosphere Collector instances.

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OpenTelemetry Ingestion & Health

The OpenTelemetry Ingestion & Health dashboard provides details about how much data OpenTelemetry Collector instances are ingesting and how many system resources they’re using. The Chronosphere OTLP Ingestion panel group visualizes data on ingested data points by metric type, transformed data points ingested and rejected by Observability Platform, and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) API response codes and latency. The OpenTelemetry Collector Health panel group visualizes memory and CPU core usage, and OpenTelemetry Collector instances by version number. When using Traces, data on trace spans might also be available. The OpenTelemetry Collector Exporters panel group visualizes the number of data points and trace spans sent, and the failure rates for sending or enqueuing data points and trace spans. Use these to identify usage and potential bottlenecks in exporters. The OpenTelemetry Collector Batch Processor panel group visualizes the number of data points or trace spans sent in batches, and the rate of batches being sent because of hitting batch size triggers or timing out. The OpenTelemetry Collector Receivers panel group visualizes the rates of data points, trace spans, and log records that the OpenTelemetry Collector accepted and refused.

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Google Cloud Integration Dashboard (GCP)

The Google Cloud Integration Dashboard (GCP) provides details about how much Google Cloud data Observability Platform is ingesting. The dashboard includes Google Cloud service status, API usage against recommended quotas, metadata about the ingested metrics, and the Top Metric Descriptors panel. This dashboard is available when the Google Cloud metrics integration is enabled for your tenant.

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GCP Timeseries API Quota Usage Per Project

The GCP Timeseries API Quota Usage Per Project panel in the Google Cloud Integration Dashboard’s Quota panel group shows how much of the API quota each Google Cloud project uses. Use the panel to identify projects that might require a quota increase. The panel populates after configuring Google Cloud metrics.

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Query dashboards

Use the following dashboards to monitor queries, identify resource intensive alert or recording groups, and visualize metrics created for traces.

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Query Accelerator

The Query Accelerator dashboard visualizes the relative performance of queries that have been optimized by the Observability Platform Query Accelerator to queries that have not been optimized. This dashboard is available when Query Accelerator is enabled for your tenant.

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Trace Metrics

The Trace Metrics dashboard visualizes metrics created for traces.

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Cardinality dashboards

Use the following dashboards to visualize cardinality produced by jobs in a given namespace, and identify information you can use to help reduce cardinality in your Observability Platform tenant.

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Persisted Cardinality Quotas

The Persisted Cardinality Quotas dashboard displays cardinality consumption breakdown by individual metric pools and priority. Persisted cardinality is a cumulative measure that calculates the sum of the unique time series of the persisted writes that Observability Platform stores, seen over the last 2.5 hours only. Use this dashboard to understand cardinality consumption across specific teams, services, and pools. For organizations that use capacity licensing, the dashboard includes the following panels, which are backed by specific persisted cardinality metrics:
  • Total Consumption of License displays the persisted cardinality consumed across all metric pools divided by your persisted license capacity, expressed as a percentage.
  • Total Consumption displays the same data as Total Consumption of License, plotted on a line graph over the last week.
  • Total Dropped displays the total metrics dropped during a penalty period if your organization exceeds 100% of its Persisted Cardinality Capacity Limit.
  • Consumption of Thresholds displays the persisted cardinality consumed for each configured pool threshold, and the pool the thresholds are assigned to. This information helps determine whether data is being dropped for crossing a defined threshold, rather than crossing a hard limit such as a capacity limit.
For capacity licensing, configure metric pools and priorities to display Consumption by Pool and Consumption by Priority panels in this dashboard. This view uses the same pools and priorities configured in your Matched Writes Quotas dashboard. If you didn’t configure that dashboard, the Persisted Cardinality Quotas dashboard displays persisted cardinality consumption only. For organizations that use consumption pricing, the dashboard displays peak consumption over the selected range for top metric names and configured usage tags. To further identify sources of cardinality increases, the Persisted Cardinality Quotas dashboard includes panel groups that display top metrics and values for your most critical usage tags defined in the Usage Dashboard. For each of your usage tags, the Persisted Cardinality Quotas dashboard includes two panels:
  • A time series chart that displays the top label values
  • A bar chart with a percentage breakdown of those values in descending order.
Use this information to identify the top metrics and label values for your usage statistics that contribute to your persisted cardinality consumption, in addition to the metrics for your predefined metrics pools. To modify the usage tags that Observability Platform uses to generate the top metrics and labels that display in the Persisted Cardinality Quotas dashboard, contact Chronosphere Support.

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Cardinality Overview

The Cardinality Overview dashboard visualizes the cardinality produced by jobs in a given namespace. Use this dashboard to understand what jobs are causing high cardinality, and how the metrics in a job contribute to cardinality.

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Metric Growth

The Metric Growth dashboard helps you identify potential sources of metric growth in your system. This dashboard is available when Metric Growth is enabled for your tenant. It includes the following panels:
  • The Overview panel group visualizes the top 10 metrics and labels by volume in data points per second (DPPS).
  • The Change Over Comparison Period Using Averages panel group visualizes the metrics and labels with the highest DPPS growth rates over a selected comparison period. It also displays labels with the highest growth rates in unique values.
  • The Drilldown panel group visualizes additional data about metrics or labels selected in the dashboard’s drilldownMetric and drilldownLabel template variables. Visualized data includes cardinality and DPPS growth over time.
Use this dashboard to understand when:
  • A newly added high-cardinality metric or label appears with high DPPS. You can understand its impact by comparing it to an older time range.
  • An existing metric or label with more unique values appears to have grown in DPPS, such as a histogram metric whose buckets greatly increased.
You can then use this information to reduce cardinality.

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Licensing dashboards

Chronosphere provides dashboards to monitor data usage against your licensing quotas. Use these dashboards to help identify usage trends across data types. You can then proactively manage data usage to avoid exceeding your organization’s licensing limits. For more information about the licensing terms used on these dashboards, and details about how Chronosphere calculates these values, see Licensing concepts. In addition to these dashboards, Chronosphere provides a consolidated License Overview page that contains information about your current license usage and data retention periods. Unlike Chronosphere-managed dashboards, access this page from the navigation menu by clicking Go to Admin, and then clicking License Overview.

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Consumption System Limits

For organizations that use consumption pricing, consumption system limits protect the stability of Observability Platform by restricting abnormal or unexpectedly rapid increases in telemetry volume. These limits apply separately from contract credit consumption and budgets. Contract credits determine usage costs, while budgets provide customer-configured alerts and shaping controls. The Consumption System Limits dashboard is the source of truth for the system limits enforced in your tenant. In the navigation menu, select Dashboards, and then search for Consumption System Limits. The dashboard includes sections only for the telemetry products and system limits configured for your tenant. The following system limits can appear:
  • Metrics persisted data points per second, evaluated over a rolling 30-minute window and presented as a per-second rate.
  • Metrics persisted series, measured as the number of series over a rolling 30-minute window.
  • Logs processed bytes per second.
  • Logs persisted bytes per second.
  • Traces processed bytes per second.
For each system limit, the dashboard provides the following panels:
  • The Usage panel compares consumed data with the threshold. It also displays received data, calculated as consumed data plus data dropped by the system limit.
  • The Dropped panel displays data dropped because traffic exceeded the system limit.
  • The % utilization, last 7d panel displays average and maximum utilization over the trailing seven days. Utilization is consumed data divided by the threshold.
The logs and traces rates use a sliding two-minute window and are presented as per-second rates. Use the usage and utilization panels to assess available headroom before a planned increase in telemetry volume. Any nonzero value in a Dropped panel means that the corresponding system limit rejected data.

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Monitor Consumption System Limits

The metrics that support the Consumption System Limits dashboard are available in your tenant. The following table lists the threshold, consumed, and dropped metrics for each system limit: Create a metric monitor that divides the consumed metric by the threshold metric. Set warning and critical conditions based on the operating headroom your organization requires. For example, the following query returns usage information for the metrics persisted data points limit:
Create a separate condition for dropped data. The following query returns a value greater than zero when the metrics persisted data points limit drops data:
To monitor another system limit, substitute its corresponding consumed, threshold, and dropped metrics from the preceding table.

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Adjust Consumption System Limits

If an intentional, sustained increase in telemetry volume requires more capacity, contact Chronosphere Support to request an adjustment. Submit the request at least three business days before the increase. System limit adjustments require mutual agreement and Chronosphere approval.

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Metrics Query Capacity Overview

The Metrics Query Capacity Overview dashboard visualizes query capacity consumption for automated metric queries against the system capacity. Use this dashboard to understand automated query usage against query capacity limits. The reporting metrics include queries from monitors, recording rules, service-level objectives (SLOs), and service accounts. See automated source query limits for more information about the limits that this dashboard visualizes.
  • The Overview panel group displays the total number of query selectors currently consumed and dropped versus the system limit, and the number of selectors by source type. Other panels in this group display the total data reads per second and the number of data reads by source type.
  • The Monitors panel group displays monitors’ query selector usage and data reads per second by time interval, and the top collections and slugs by selector usage and data reads per second.
  • The Recording Rules panel group displays recording rules’ query selector usage and data reads per second by time interval. Other panels list the top execution groups, slugs, and output metrics by selector usage and data reads per second.
  • The Service Accounts panel group displays the top universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) by selector usage and data reads per second.
  • The SLOs panel group displays the slugs of top SLOs by selector usage and data reads per second.
  • The Query Resource Pool panel group displays data read and rejected queries for each value of the pool_name dashboard variable.
The Metrics Query Capacity Overview dashboard doesn’t include contract, budget, or partition consumption. For organizations that use consumption pricing:
  • Use License Overview to compare credit consumption with your contract.
  • Use the Consumption page to analyze consumed and dropped data by partition, review budget status, and select threshold time windows.
  • Use Partitions and budgets to configure consumption controls.

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Matched Writes Quotas

The Matched Writes Quotas dashboard displays matched writes consumption. When the matched writes capacity limit is enforced, use this dashboard to compare consumption with pool allocations and the capacity limit, and to review drops by pool and priority. Use the pool_name dashboard variable to display a panel group for each configured pool. This dashboard includes a Summary panel group containing panels for the following statistics when the matched writes capacity limit is enforced:
  • Total Consumption of License displays the current total consumption rate as a percentage, which is calculated as the total matched writes consumed divided by the license capacity.
  • Total Consumption displays the consumption rate of matched writes versus your total capacity limit for matched writes.
  • Total Dropped by Pool Priority (Stacked) displays dropped data by pool and priority.
  • Consumption by Pool Breakdown displays matched writes consumption in data points per second (DPPS) by pool name.
This dashboard also includes panel groups for each of your defined metric pools. Each panel group contains panels for the following statistics:
  • Consumption displays the consumption rate of matched writes for the selected pool versus your total capacity limit for matched writes.
  • Consumption by Priority displays the matched writes consumed in DPPS by priority within the pool, separated by low, medium, and high priority data.
  • Dropped by Priority displays the matched writes dropped in DPPS by priority within the pool, separated by low, medium, and high priority data.
When your tenant uses consumption pricing for metrics and the matched writes capacity limit isn’t enforced, the dashboard instead provides a Peak Consumption over Range panel. See matched writes in the metrics dictionary for more information about the metrics that Observability Platform uses to create the statistics displayed in this dashboard.

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Usage Dashboard

The Usage Dashboard provides a regular breakdown of ingested, persisted, and dropped metrics across your organization by the usage tags configured for your tenant. These tags can include labels such as cluster, environment, app_name, and service_name. Use this dashboard to identify what’s contributing the most to your Observability Platform usage, and to manage your overall usage. The Usage Dashboard (Histograms) provides the same type of breakdown for histogram metrics.