Observe uses artificial intelligence (AI) technologies from OpenAI, Snowflake, and in-house development to assist users in learning and using the Observability Cloud.

o11y AI Help

You can access o11y AI by selecting Help > AI Help anywhere in Observe from the left navigation menu. Ask o11y AI about specific functionality within Observe, how to perform tasks, and how to solve problems. o11y AI uses large language model technology to help you work with your data.

o11y AI is intentionally limited to observability topics and technical information about the observability cloud.

o11y AI example - data ingest

To try o11y AI, learn how to ingest data into your Observe instance. o11y AI responds with an answer and can interactively assist you through the process.

o11y AI example - OPAL

Perhaps you have a question about using OPAL and the statsby verb. o11y AI responds with answers about using the verb:

You can use the copy icon () to copy the answer to your clipboard and then paste it into a document or location for future reference.

You can rate each answer as Helpful () or Not Helpful () which helps o11y AI learn how to answer your question in a more useful manner.

o11y AI example - OPAL Copilot

In addition to. asking o11y AI about OPAL verbs and functions, you can access o11y Copilot from the OPAL editor in any Explorer, Worksheet, Dashboard, or Monitor. o11y Copilot uses large language model technology to help you write OPAL to solve problems.

To use O11y Copilot, write a comment or line of OPAL, then press command-K (macOS) or CTRL-K (Windows). The line under the cursor will be used to generate suggestions in a popup menu. Select the option you prefer, and click to insert.

o11y AI example - explain messages in Explorers and Worksheets

o11y AI is also able to explain strings. Using any Explorer or Worksheet interface showing tabular data, a cell that contains a string will have a green context menu to the right side. In that menu, select Explain this message to launch o11y AI and get an explanation of the message.

Help topics

o11y AI has specific training and focus on topic related to Observe, such as observability, security observability, and OPAL. It will respond to questions outside of those topics with "That does not compute." You can add information to it by uploading documents through the product settings Settings.

Keep asking questions to learn more about the ways o11y AI can help you use Observe.

Use o11y AI to extract regular expressions

O11y Chat can help with regular expressions. In a Worksheet or the Log Explorer, String columns containing complex log data are often a challenge to extract useful data from. To start getting data, click the column header, and select Extract from String to browse several common pre-built options. The default is Custom Regular Expression, which uses o11y AI's OpenAI integration to suggest extractions. You can select from the suggestions, select a block of text to produce a new extraction, or add additional prompts for OpenAI. Finally, click Generate RegEx to produce the regular expression and extract the fields for use. Extracted fields will be color matched so you can check that they work. Click Apply to extract the fields in your dataset and continue working.