Get started
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.
Your home page shows the most recent dashboards, monitors, SLOs you’ve accessed, and comments added to the system. You also can access your favorite dashboards and monitors.
Administrators
Administrators and expert users are often the first adopters of observability software. New users might not understand what they need to know, or how to find and solve problems. Administrators can create helpful and curated experiences for incoming developers and other users.
Administrators know how their users are organized - what teams they’re on, who’s responsible for what functions, and so on.
At the same time, you need to ingest data to observe. Observability Platform ingests metrics, traces, and logs, meeting a variety of telemetry coverage needs.
After data is flowing to Observability Platform, create dashboards, alerts, and services to monitor your data.
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.
Take control of your telemetry data to keep costs predictable and manageable as your business scales, and help 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.
Developers
Troubleshooting issues can be time consuming and difficult when you don’t know where to start or how to find the data you need.
You can query and analyze all of your data to help identify issues and determine which services are causing latency. Use these capabilities in conjunction with monitors and alerts during incident response when you’re trying to identify the source of an issue.
PromQL is a complex query language, and users don’t necessarily want to spend time learning it while they’re solving problems.
Dashboards provide information on the telemetry and services important to you. Your administrator might create dashboards for you, or you can create your own with the data you need the most.
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, dashboards, and service level objectives (SLOs).
Some filters can follow you across pages as you dig into issues and narrow down where problems lie.