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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 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.
  • Learn what metrics are available in the Metrics Catalog.

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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. Administrators know how their users are organized - what teams they’re on, who’s responsible for what functions, and so on.

Manage users, teams, and tokens to control access to Observability Platform

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.

Send your telemetry data to Observability Platform for monitoring

After data is flowing to Observability Platform, create dashboards, alerts, and services to monitor your data.

Use dashboards to customize detailed views into specific data

Create alerts to make your DevOps and observability teams aware of problems

Discover services for end to end views

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.

Use the provided tools to interact programatically with Chronosphere

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.

Identify and eliminate telemetry data that isn't used

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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. 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.

Investigate issues in your services and environment

Mark resources as favorites to display them in your personal homepage so they’re readily available whenever you sign in.

Favorite consistently used resources for ease of navigation

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

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.

Use dashboards to customize detailed views into specific data

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).

Use services, dashboards, and SLOs to gain visibility into your environments

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