Service management¶
Service management in Observe APM provides powerful tools to visualize, monitor, and understand your system’s architecture and performance. It automatically discovers microservices and databases from your OpenTelemetry data, offering insights into their health and relationships.
Service Catalog¶
The Service Catalog is a comprehensive list of all services and databases detected in your environment. For each service, it displays critical RED metrics (Request rate, Errors, and Duration), helping you quickly identify which services may require attention. This view acts as your central hub for exploring the health and activity of your system.
Service Map¶
The Service Map visually represents the communication relationships between services and databases, showing how traffic flows through your system. It overlays RED metrics on both services and the connections (edges) between them, making it easy to identify bottlenecks, errors, or latency issues within dependencies.
These features are designed to streamline debugging, performance optimization, and overall service management by providing a clear, data-driven view of your architecture in real-time.
Services and edges show up on the service map if they have reported data in the last 7 days.
OpenTelemetry data used for service management¶
APM service management uses the data and relationships in the Span dataset to discover microservices and databases in your service.
Service management capability |
Underlying OpenTelemetry data |
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Service naming |
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Service catalog filtering |
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Service RED metrics |
Spans of kind |
Service-to-service edges |
Parent/child spans with different |
Service-to-database edges |
Child spans of kind |
Database naming |
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