Observability Platform concepts

Chronosphere Observability Platform includes several distinct components, utilities, and features that give you insight into your telemetry data. This guide describes some of the most common concepts you'll encounter while using Observability Platform.

Control Plane

The Chronosphere Control Plane lets you manage the type and amount of telemetry data that you retain.

For more information, see Shape your metrics data.

Lens

Chronosphere Lens gives you visibility into the health and performance of your applications by ingesting metrics, traces, and change events.

For more information, see Observe your telemetry data.

Dashboard

A dashboard is a visual representation of your telemetry data. There are two types of dashboards: custom and Chronosphere-managed.

For more information, see Visualize data using dashboards.

Monitor

A monitor is a set of watch criteria that generates an alert when those criteria are met. You can create monitors to track the status of various conditions, like capacity, uptime, and error rates, and then determine whether a given condition is passing, failing, or critically failing.

For more information, see View and create monitors.

Service

A service is the smallest measurable unit that emits telemetry data, such as a microservice, feature, or endpoint.

For more information, see Services, which describes the page in Observability Platform where services are listed.

Collection

A collection is a group of resources associated with a service. These resources include dashboards and monitors.