Chronosphere Observability Platform

Chronosphere Observability Platform provides capabilities to control, explore, visualize, and interact with your telemetry data.

Learn about the concepts unique to Observability Platform, or just get going.

Get going

To get started with Observability Platform:

• Open your browser, authenticate, and sign in.
• Locate dashboards to view the health and performance of services that matter to your team.
• Investigate monitors and configure alerts to generate notifications about important data.
• Write queries to search for pertinent telemetry data, and help identify issues during on-call triage.
• Explore services to view queries and data visualizations related services you care about.

Workflow patterns

Observability Platform includes many tools, each of which are best suited for specific workflows. Every user needs to authenticate and sign in, but on-call engineers might be most interested in querying data, while data curators want to use control tools to reduce persisted data and manage costs. Use the following sections to learn more about the workflow patterns in Observability Platform.

Send

Before you observe anything, you need to send your data to Observability Platform. Instrumentation engineers can use one of the supported collection methods to ingest telemetry data.

Authenticate

To start using Observability Platform, sign in with your user account to authenticate. Within Observability Platform, user and service accounts provide access to Chronosphere resources that help you observe and act on relevant data.

Query

After sending telemetry data to Observability Platform, you can query all of your data to help identify issues and determine which services are causing latency. This capability helps during incident response when you’re trying to identify the source of an issue.

Interact

Use the provided command-line interfaces, infrastructure as code tools, and APIs for interacting with the Observability Platform and Telemetry Pipeline products. These tools include Terraform, Chronoctl, and supported APIs.

Control

Take control of your telemetry data to keep costs predictable and manageable as your business scales, and helps teams manage their data effectively by reducing the amount of available information. When you optimize your telemetry data, on-call engineers can find the data they need to solve problems faster.

Visualize

Chronosphere Lens gives you visibility into the health and performance of your applications by ingesting metrics, traces, logs, and change events that you can observe using services and dashboards.

Administrate

Administrative users focus on observability tools so that developers can use those tools to monitor and maintain the health of their distributed system. As an administrative user, you might focus on cost control, data collection, data usability, and platform usability.