Monitors and alerts
Observe Monitors provide a flexible way to alert when conditions are matched in your data. You can use multiple rules and conditional tests to determine the severity of a condition, route to different destinations based on severity, and reactively or proactively mute alerting.
The version 2 upgrade
Version 2 of the Observe Monitoring engine brings many valuable new capabilities to your observability experience, but safely changing monitoring systems takes caution. When Monitors v2 is enabled, your existing monitoring system continues to run and can still be managed independently of Monitors v2. To access Monitors v1 from a Monitors v2 enabled instance, click Monitors in the left navigation, then click View Monitors v1. All features of the v1 Monitor system are now accessible.
v1 Monitors are being deprecated. Starting on September 1, 2026, you won't be able to create any more v1 Monitors. Any existing v1 Monitors remain in your system and can be viewed and edited, but they won't be supported.
What does a Monitor do?
A Monitor watches a Dataset for a particular condition, such as a count of events or a specific text value. When you create a Monitor, Observe makes a new Dataset based on the contents of the Dataset and your conditions. This allows multiple Monitors from the same Dataset to be independent of each other.
Learn more about Monitors
Learn how to configure reusable notification definitions you can share with your team.
Learn how to use negative monitoring to track the absence of data or lumpy data.
Learn how to review a Monitor's data sources to understand its data, the data's latency, and the query window size over time.