Cloud Observability Documentation | ServiceNow
  • QuickStart
    • Kubernetes quickstart: Infrastructure and app monitoring with OpenTelemetry
    • Kubernetes quickstart: Local sandbox setup with demo data
    • Virtual Machine quickstart: Infrastructure and app monitoring with OpenTelemetry
  • Get started with Cloud Observability
    • Get started with Cloud Observability
    • Monitor and investigate
    • Integrations
    • Use Developer Mode
      • Manage your developer satellite
      • Troubleshoot Developer Mode
  • Send data to Cloud Observability
    • About sending data to Cloud Observability
      • Metric naming rules
    • Technology recommendations
    • Use the OpenTelemetry Collector
      • Already using OpenTelemetry and the Collector?
      • Quickstart: Collector for application data using Docker
      • Quickstart: Collector for infrastructure using Docker
      • Ingest metrics using the Collector
      • Configure the Collector to use a web proxy
      • General guidelines for configuring Collectors
      • Monitor Collector health
    • Send logs to Cloud Observability
      • Get started
      • Log integrations
      • Log ingestion pipelines
        • Create ingestion pipelines
        • Ingestion pipeline reference
      • Log concepts
    • Send data to the ServiceNow CMDB
    • Migrate pre-existing telemetry
      • About ingesting Prometheus metrics
        • Quickstart Kubernetes: Collector and Operator
        • Performance test and tune the Collector
        • Prometheus concepts in Cloud Observability
      • Ingest telemetry data from the Datadog Agent
        • Ingest metrics from Datadog
        • Ingest traces from the Datadog Agent
        • Ingest logs from the Datadog Agent
    • Monitor a cloud platform
      • Ingest metrics from Amazon
      • Ingest metrics from Azure Monitor
      • Ingest metrics from Azure AKS
      • Ingest metrics from Google Cloud Monitoring
      • Ingest metrics from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
    • Monitor Kubernetes applications
      • Quickstart: Collector for infrastructure metrics
      • Scale an OpenTelemetry Collector's pipeline in Kubernetes
    • Monitor an application
      • Quickstart: Tracing instrumentation
      • OpenTelemetry Quickstart
      • General guidelines for tracing instrumentation
      • Use attributes and log events to find issues fast
      • Send traces to Cloud Observability with Go
      • Send traces to Cloud Observability with Java
      • Send traces to Cloud Observability with .NET
      • Send traces to Cloud Observability with Node.JS
      • Send traces to Cloud Observability with Python
    • Search all metric integrations
    • Send telemetry data via OTLP/HTTP
    • Troubleshoot missing data in Cloud Observability
    • Measure your instrumentation quality
  • Concepts
    • Understand distributed tracing
    • How Cloud Observability works
    • What is OpenTelemetry?
    • Logging in Cloud Observability
    • How Cloud Observability displays metrics
    • Understand data retention in Cloud Observability
    • Cloud Observability Glossary
  • Monitor
    • Dashboards
      • Create and manage dashboards
      • Create and manage panels
      • Use template variables
      • Use dashboard workflow links
    • Alerts
      • Create alerts
      • View and manage alerts
      • Add CIs to alerts
      • Manage notification destinations
      • Create webhook notification destinations
      • Sample alerts
    • Service health
  • Investigate
    • Notebooks
    • Explore logs
    • Explore spans
    • Investigate deviations
      • Troubleshoot correlations
      • Register service-name attributes
    • View traces
    • Query real-time span data
      • Find correlated areas of latency and errors
      • View service hierarchy and performance
  • Query and visualize
    • Query your data
    • Use the Unified Query Builder
    • Use UQL to create advanced queries
      • UQL cheat sheet
      • UQL reference
        • UQL: contains
        • UQL: defined
        • UQL: undefined
        • UQL: join
      • Get started with distributions in UQL
      • Get started with UQL log queries
      • Get started with spans queries in UQL
      • Alignment in UQL
    • Retain queries with Streams
    • Data visualizations
      • Use dependency maps
      • Add inferred services
      • Use scatter plots
      • Create deployment markers
      • Create event markers
    • View Cloud Observability data in Grafana
    • Use labels to tag dashboards and alerts
    • Create links to important information
      • Create and manage Workflow Links
      • Use variables in Workflow Links
      • Workflow Links cookbook
  • Set up and manage Microsatellites
    • Learn about Microsatellites
    • Install and configure Microsatellites
      • Microsatellite configuration parameters
      • Docker: Install and configure Microsatellites
      • Docker with Helm: Install and configure Microsatellites
      • AWS/AMI: Install and configure Microsatellites
      • Debian/Ubuntu: Install and configure Microsatellites
      • Convert a Debian Microsatellite package to RPM
    • Verify and test Microsatellite setup
    • Upgrade Microsatellites
    • Create and manage Satellite keys
    • About public Microsatellites
    • Monitor and tune Microsatellites and Cloud Observability
      • Monitor Microsatellites, tracers, and service reporting
      • Monitor Microsatellite pools and Microsatellites
      • Review Microsatellite diagnostics
      • Understand StatsD Microsatellite metrics
      • Load balance Cloud Observability
    • Microsatellite release notes
  • Administer Cloud Observability
    • Settings
      • Billing
        • Monitor usage
        • Create billing alerts
        • Create billing dashboards
        • Control costs with ingestion rules
      • Data management
        • Manage metric details
        • Rehydrate logs
        • Set span retention policies
      • Project management
        • Manage projects
        • Set project landing pages
      • Tokens and keys
        • Manage access tokens
      • User and role management
        • Plan your workflow
        • Manage users
        • Manage roles
        • Set up SSO
        • Set up JIT provisioning
        • Map SAML attributes to roles
        • Roles and permissions reference
    • Personal settings
      • Appearance
        • Set personal landing pages
        • Use dark mode
      • Manage emails
      • Set Slack preview preferences
      • Set time zones
    • Terraform provider
      • Manage AWS alerts
      • Pre-built dashboards
        • AWS-managed services
        • GCP-managed services
        • Kubernetes
        • OpenTelemetry Collector
    • Security and support
      • Data security
      • Customer Success tips
    • About the EU data center
  • Use the Cloud Observability API
    • Use the Cloud Observability API
      • Create and manage API keys
      • API Rate limits
      • Test API endpoints
      • API query syntax
      • JSON structure
      • Use Postman with Cloud Observability
    • API reference
      • API reference v2.0
      • EU API reference v2.0
      • API reference v1.0
  • Classic Cloud Observability features
    • About Classic Cloud Observability features
    • Monitor span data with Streams
    • Create dashboards from tri-charts
    • Create alerts for tri-charts
  • Early Access docs
    • Early access docs
  • Data integrations
  • Changelog
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