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Welcome to Observe

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- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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- LLM telemetry reference
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Private Preview

Platform Capabilities

Create dashboards
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- Monitor anti-patterns
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Pivot between data types
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Manage Observe

Authentication and authorization
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Use Acceleration Manager with Datasets
Use Credit Manager to manage compute usage
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Observe Terraform provider
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Export query results
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Reference

Key Observe concepts
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- Advanced Observe concepts
- Explore data
- About queries and on-demand acceleration
- Observe Datasets and time
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Visualization types
OPAL reference
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  - OPAL Misc Functions
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    - asc
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    - count
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    - case
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    - array_to_string
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    - encode_uri_component
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    - int64_to_ipv4
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    - label
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    - aggregate
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  - OPAL Metrics Verbs
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    - aggregate
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setpk¶

setpk is a deprecated alias of set_primary_key.

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