Get started with Observability Platform

To get started with Observability Platform:

• Open your browser, authenticate, and sign in.
• View your home page and navigate directly to your favorite resources, or your most recently used ones.
• Locate dashboards to observe the health and performance of services that matter to your team.
• Investigate monitors and configure alerts to generate notifications about important data.
• Query telemetry data to search for trends, and help identify issues during on-call triage.
• Explore services to visualize queries and data visualizations related to services you care about.

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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.

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Control access

Administrators know how their users are organized, including what teams they’re on, and who’s responsible for what functions. Manage users, teams, and tokens to control access to Observability Platform.

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Ingest telemetry data

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.

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Monitor telemetry data

After data is flowing to Observability Platform, create dashboards, alerts, and services to monitor your data. Use alerts to make your DevOps and observability teams aware of problems when they arise.

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Control telemetry data

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.

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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. Use notebooks to gather panels and notes from dashboards, Logs Explorer, and other pages in one side panel while you investigate.

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Query telemetry data

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. Use the Query Builder to reduce time spent building PromQL queries.

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Observe telemetry data

Dashboards provide information about 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).

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Integrate tools

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. Integrate your data and tools with Observability Platform. Configure the Chronosphere MCP server and connect supported integrations to streamline the integration with Observability Platform.

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Configure resources

Mark resources as favorites to display them in your personal homepage so they’re readily available whenever you sign in. Some filters can follow you across pages as you dig into issues and narrow down where problems lie. Use Pinned scopes if you have specific filters you need across multiple pages.