Navigating the Workspace

Before you begin ingesting data and creating dashboards, take a few minutes to become familiar with Observe user interface.

Overview of the Observe Workspace

Observe provides a workspace as a starting place to begin ingesting data and building your observability dashboards. When you navigate the menu on the left, choosing an icon allows you to perform different functions to work with your data.

Figure 1 - Observe Workspace

The new Navigation Bar has the following topics:

• Home - links to the customizable Home page with links to your most frequently used content.

• Quick find - quickly locate data or information on Observe.

• Favorites - locate your content marked Favorite.

• Investigate - Use these links to Explorers where you can analyze and model your data.

  • Logs - Use the Log Explorer to analyze Logs datasets.

  • Metrics - Use the Metrics Explorer to locate metrics of interest for Datasets.

  • Traces(TBA) - Review your OpenTelemetry traces and search for traces of interest.

• Explore - Locate specific topics such as the following:

  • Dashboards - Links to configured Dashboards on Observe.

  • Monitors - Links to configured Monitors on Observe.

  • Datasets - Links to Datasets for applications and other ingested data.

  • Worksheets - Links to existing Worksheets where you can model Datasets.

  • Dataset Graph - Links to an overview of connections between your Datasets.

• Data - locate Datastreams and Applications.

  • Datastreams - Review sources of ingested data.

  • Applications - Review installed and available Apps such as Microsoft Azure and OpenTelemetry.

  • + Application - Links to the Apps page where you can select and install Apps.

• Help - Links to helpful information and O11y, the Observe GPT bot.

  • Docs & support - Links to the Observe User Guide that contains helpful information about configuring parameters as well as tutorials to guide you through configuring and modeling Datasets.

  • O11y GPT - get answers to all of your questions about configuring, modeling, and shaping data, as well as using OPAL.

Accessing Workspace Settings

The bottom of the Navigation Bar displays your Username and the Observe instance name. Click on the Settings icon to display more options:

Figure 2 - Accessing Workplace Settings

Clicking Workspace Settings takes you to the Settings interface where you can perform the following tasks:

• Members - Add, remove, or edit Members.

• Acceleration Manager - Manage the acceleration of your datasets.

• Credit Manager - Manage your credit usage on your Observe instance.

• Usage Dashboard - View usage of Observe on your instance.

• Invoices - View your invoice status with Observe.

• Account Settings - Edit your Account settings.

You can also perform the following tasks from this menu:

• Switch workspaces - If you have more than one Workspace configured, switch between them.

• Workspace theme - Change the color scheme of your Observe interface.

• Account Settings - Edit your Account settings.