This tutorial steps you through creating a simple Dashboards using Observe. Dashboards help you visualize and interpret your data.

Explore dashboards

Click Dashboards in the navigation bar to open the landing page for dashboards.

To locate a specific dashboard, enter text into the Search for dashboards... field to display a list of dashboards matching that text. To create a new dashboard, click New dashboard.

Get started with dashboards

Let's start creating your first dashboard using the following steps:

1. Click New Dashboard, then click Add to dashboard.
2. In the modal, you can select whether you want to add a table, visualization, or object to the dashboard you are creating. We want to add a visualization from a Dataset, so select Dataset under Visualizations.

3. Select Kubernetes Logsas the Dataset.

4. We will create a single stat dashboard showing the number of pods in the observe namespace. Begin by adjusting the filters to find this data. In the Type for filters... field, enter namespace = "observe". Then select Count Distinct Exact as the function, and select of pods:

5. Select Single Stat from the list of visualization types. You now have a single stat card you can add to your new dashboard.

6. You can further customize your card:
   1. Give the query a name, such as Total Observe Pods.
   2. Expand the Settings section, and give the card a label, such as Total Observe Pods.
   3. Expand the Colors and presentation section and change the color.

Click Apply when you are done to add this card to your dashboard.

Lastly, give your dashboard a name and click Save changes to create and save this dashboard.

You can edit the card at any time by clicking the edit () icon on the card.