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

The Observe Monitoring engine upgrade brings many valuable new capabilities to your Observability Cloud experience, but safely changing monitoring systems takes caution. When Monitors v2 is enabled via feature flag, 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, go to Monitors and click View Monitors v1 at the top right. All features of the v1 system are accessible there.

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