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After configuring a service and reviewing its service page, extend the service with change event overlays, dependency maps, and connected monitors or dashboards. These capabilities add operational context to each service so you can correlate changes, trace dependencies, and surface related resources during an investigation.

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Display change events

To overlay change events, your organization must purchase change event tracking and have it enabled in your tenant.
You can enable change events to display them on panels for each of your services. This capability lets you visualize changes in your environment relative to a specific service.

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View dependencies

To view dependency maps for trace data in service pages, your organization must purchase distributed tracing and have it enabled in your tenant.
When receiving an alert about your service, you need to identify and fix the issue as quickly as possible. If the issue isn’t with your service, you want to inform the responsible team so they can investigate the issue. Use dependency maps to view a perspective that’s scoped to an individual service, including its upstream and downstream dependencies. These maps visualize trends in duration, requests, and errors, so you can understand trends to focus your investigation. See Service exploration for an example of how to use dependency maps to help identify issues.

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View connected resources

In addition to displaying monitors and dashboards owned by a service, you can also connect these resources to a service, even when they’re owned by another service. Connecting monitors and dashboards to services can help you identify issues in upstream or downstream services. Tables in a service page’s sidebar list its associated dashboards and monitors, and include management tools to connect existing resources to the currently viewed service. Dashboards and monitors owned by the selected service prepopulate the lists.

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Connect a resource to a service without transferring ownership

To connect an existing resource to the currently viewed service without changing the resource’s ownership:
  1. Next to Dashboards or All Monitors, click Manage.
  2. Select Connections to open the Manage connections panel.
  3. Search for a resource using the following methods:
    • Scroll the list until you find the dashboard.
    • Type the resource name in the Search dashboards box.
    • Use the Select a team menu to choose a specific team.
    • Use the Select an owner dropdown to choose a collection or service.
  4. Select the checkboxes on the rows of the resources you want to associate with the service. You can select multiple resources at once.
  5. Click Connect <RESOURCES>. <RESOURCES> reflects the type of resource you’re managing, such as Connect dashboards or Connect monitors.
After resources are connected to a service, the Connected <RESOURCES> table on the Manage connections panel displays them.

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Edit a connected resource

  1. Next to All monitors or Dashboards, click Manage.
  2. Select Manage connections.
  3. Make changes in the Connected <RESOURCES> table.

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Remove a connection to a dashboard or monitor

  1. Next to All monitors or Dashboards, click Manage.
  2. Select Manage connections.
  3. In the Connected <RESOURCES> section, select the checkboxes on the rows of the resources whose connections you want to remove.
  4. Click Delete <RESOURCE> connections.
  5. Click Delete to confirm.

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Connect a resource to a service by transferring ownership

Changing a resource’s ownership removes its association with its current owner. Make sure any other users who rely on that association are aware of ownership changes to the resource.
To connect an existing resource to the currently viewed service by changing the resource’s ownership to the service:
  1. Next to Dashboards or All Monitors, click Manage.
  2. Select Owned _<RESOURCE> to open the Manage ownership panel. <RESOURCES> reflects the type of resource you’re managing, such as Owned dashboards or Owned monitors.
  3. Search for a resource using the following methods:
    • Scroll the list until you find the dashboard.
    • Type the resource name in the Search dashboards box.
    • Use the Select a team menu to choose a specific team.
    • Use the Select an owner dropdown to choose a collection or service.
  4. Select the checkboxes on the rows of the resources you want to associate with the service. You can select multiple resources at once.
  5. Click Update ownership.
After resources are connected to a service, the Owned <RESOURCES> table on the Manage ownership panel displays the resources.

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Affect service health

When viewing a connected monitor, toggle Affects service health to include this resource in the service status.