Observe Apps

Apps consist of self-service packages that include data ingestion, datasets, worksheets, and sample monitors to help you investigate issues in your infrastructure. Ingest and navigate your data in minutes with a single app install.

A list of available apps can be found at the Observe Integration index.

Apps page in Workspace Settings. The **Featured** tab shows cards for available apps. There is also an Installed tab for apps you've installed.

Figure 1 - Apps page displayed from the left navigation panel.

Installing an app

To install an app, use the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Apps tab of the Workspace Settings page.

  2. In the Featured tab, select the desired app.

  3. Click Install.

  4. Select your desired configuration: Recommended for the default settings or Manual for advanced options.

  5. Accept the default Recommended option for a standard install and click Continue to install.

  6. For custom settings, select Manual install (Advanced) then Continue to manually select configuration options.

  7. Once you install the app, click the Connections tab to create a connection token.

  8. Click View instructions to view the App data connection instructions.

  9. Go to the Installed tab to view the app’s health once you configure a connection.

A Healthy status indicates that you have correctly installed the app and ingested data.

Freshness determines how frequently the data shaping updates a dataset that populates it. A shorter freshness duration provides more recent results but uses more acceleration credits. Each app has a Freshness Default setting in the manual configuration options.

Delete an App

Deleting an app deletes all of its content, removing it from your workspace. This includes the following:

  • The datastream where the app ingests its data.

  • Datasets, dashboards, and worksheets created by the app.

Deleting an app does not delete the datasets, dashboards, worksheets, and monitors you created. But since they depend on app data, they no longer function as expected.

Data connections, including all tokens and pollers, are not deleted during app deletion.

Some apps optionally integrate with another app. These include:

  • Host monitoring

  • Jenkins

  • Kubernetes

  • MySQL

  • OpenTelemetry

You may need to delete the linked app first before completely deleting the app from your Observe workspace.

To delete a linked app, first update the configuration to no longer link to other apps:

  1. From the Apps tab, click Manage to open the App details.

  2. Click the Configuration tab.

  3. Select None in the linked app dropdown.

  4. Click Update

The OpenTelemetry app Configuration tab. The "Kubernetes App" dropdown is open, showing "None" is selected.

Figure 2 - Unlinking the OpenTelemetry app from Kubernetes

Some apps link to multiple apps, such as the AWS and GCP apps.

To completely delete an app from your Observe workspace, follow these steps:

  1. From the Apps tab, click Manage to open the app details.

  2. Hover over the Trashcan icon Trashcan icon and then click Delete to confirm app deletion.

The app deletion window is open

Figure 3 - Deleting the AWS app from Observe workspace