> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.chronosphere.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get started with Observability Platform

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To get started with Observability Platform:

```mermaid actions={false} theme={null}
flowchart LR
    A[Authenticate] --> B[Navigate] --> C[Observe] --> D[Investigate] --> E[Query] --> F[Visualize]
    click A href "/overview/authenticating"
    click B href "/navigate"
    click C href "/observe"
    click D href "/investigate/alerts"
    click E href "/investigate/querying"
    click F href "/observe/services"

classDef greenFill fill:#2fbf71,stroke-width:2px,color:#FFFFFF
class A,B,C,D,E,F greenFill;
```

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

## 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.

### 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.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="shield" title="Control access to Observability Platform" href="/administer" />
</Columns>

### 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.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="send" title="Send your telemetry data to Observability Platform for monitoring" href="/ingest" />
</Columns>

### 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.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="layout-dashboard" title="Use dashboards to customize detailed views into specific data" href="/observe/dashboards" />

  <Card horizontal icon="bell" title="Create alerts to generate and route notifications" href="/investigate/alerts" />

  <Card horizontal icon={<ServiceNavIcon />} title="Discover services for end to end views" href="/administer/service-discovery" />
</Columns>

### 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.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="pocket-knife" title="Identify and eliminate telemetry data that isn't used" href="/control" />
</Columns>

## 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](/navigate/notebooks) to
gather panels and notes from dashboards, Logs Explorer, and other pages in one side
panel while you investigate.

### 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.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="zoom-in" title="Investigate issues in your services and environment" href="/investigate" />
</Columns>

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.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="search-code" title="Build PromQL queries faster" href="/investigate/querying/metrics/query-builder" />
</Columns>

### 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.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="layout-dashboard" title="Customize detailed views into specific data" href="/observe/dashboards" />
</Columns>

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).

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="monitor" title="Gain visibility into your environments" href="/observe" />
</Columns>

### 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.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="bot" title="Interact programatically with Chronosphere" href="/tooling" />
</Columns>

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

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="plug" title="Integrate data and tools" href="/integrate" />
</Columns>

### Configure resources

Mark resources as favorites to display them in your
[personal homepage](/observe/personal-homepage) so they're readily available whenever
you sign in.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="star" title="Favorite consistently used resources for ease of navigation" href="/navigate/favorites" />
</Columns>

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.

<Columns cols={1}>
  <Card horizontal icon="telescope" title="Filter across pages with pinned scopes" href="/navigate/pinned-scopes" />
</Columns>