SUSE Observability

    • SUSE Observability documentation
    • Release
      • Release Notes
        • v2.8.0 - 03/Mar/2026
        • v2.7.0 - 14/Jan/2026
        • v2.6.3 - 25/Nov/2025
        • v2.6.2 - 03/Nov/2025
        • v2.6.1 - 13/Oct/2025
        • v2.6.0 - 29/Sep/2025
        • v2.5.0 - 08/Sep/2025
        • v2.4.0 - 25/Aug/2025
        • v2.3.7 - 28/Jul/2025
        • v2.3.6 - 23/Jul/2025
        • v2.3.5 - 19/Jun/2025
        • v2.3.4 - 04/Jun/2025
        • v2.3.3 - 07/May/2025
        • v2.3.2 - 22/Apr/2025
        • v2.3.1 - 17/Mar/2025
        • v2.3.0 - 30/Jan/2025
        • v2.2.1 - 10/Dec/2024
        • v2.2.0 - 09/Dec/2024
        • v2.1.0 - 29/Oct/2024
        • v2.0.2 - 01/10/2024
        • v2.0.1 - 18/09/2024
        • v2.0.0 - 11/09/2024
      • Release Strategy
    • Installation
      • Platform: Self-hosted
        • Compatibility matrix
        • Getting Started and Requirements
          • System requirements and sizing
          • First login & default credentials
        • Installation Guides
          • Kubernetes install
          • OpenShift install
          • Alibaba Cloud ACK install
          • Air-gapped platform installation
        • Advanced Configuration
          • Authentication
            • Authentication options
            • Open ID Connect (OIDC)
            • KeyCloak
            • Microsoft Entra ID
            • LDAP
            • File-based
            • Single password
          • Storage & Resources
            • Storage classes and customization
            • Data retention periods and resizing
            • Configure Kubernetes affinities
          • Network & Security
            • Exposing SUSE Observability with a Kubernetes ingress
            • Self-signed certificates
            • Service Tokens
            • API Keys
            • Disabling TLS verification
            • Managing secrets externally
            • Required permissions and Pod security
            • Override default Helm value
            • Troubleshooting authentication and authorization
          • Analytics
          • Notifications
            • Slack
            • E-mail
          • Backup & Restore
            • Enable backups
            • Restore backups
          • Legacy Backup
            • Kubernetes backup (Legacy)
            • Configuration backup (Legacy)
        • Troubleshooting
          • Quick troubleshooting guide
          • Advanced troubleshooting
          • UI extension troubleshooting
          • Support Package (Logs)
          • Support Package (Performance)
        • Upgrade & Uninstallation
          • Upgrading
            • Migration from StackState
            • Steps to upgrade
            • Version-specific upgrade instructions
          • Uninstallation
            • Removing Helm charts and resources
            • Wiping data
      • Platform: Hosted by SUSE
        • SUSE Cloud Observability
          • Quick Start guide
          • Managing users via Keycloak
      • Agent
        • Hardware architecture support
        • Quick Start guide
        • SUSE Observability walk-through
        • Air-gapped installation using Helm charts
        • Network configuration for SaaS
        • Configuration for Proxy connections
        • Custom Secret Management
        • Request tracing management
        • Certificates for sidecar injection
      • Rancher UI extension
        • SUSE Rancher Prime installation
        • Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
          • Permissions
          • Roles
          • Rancher
          • Scopes
    • Usage
      • Features and UI
        • Kubernetes views
        • Understanding Filters and Perspectives
        • Creating and saving custom views
        • Explore views
        • List views and cards
        • Resource summary page
        • Using the Topology graph
        • Events timeline
        • Exploring metrics
        • Component metrics
        • Explore Traces
        • Traces perspective
        • Log browser
        • Using Topology and Event filters
        • Keyboard shortcuts
        • Using the Timeline and Time Travel
      • Dashboard
        • Creating and managing dashboards
        • Configuring widgets
        • Using variables
        • Layout and organization
      • Monitors and Alerts
        • Monitors
        • Out-of-the-box K8s monitors
        • Customizing standard monitors
        • Configuring notifications
        • Notifications
          • Slack
          • Teams
          • Webhook
          • Opsgenie
          • Notifications troubleshooting
      • Guided Troubleshooting
        • What is guided troubleshooting?
        • Configuring YAML
        • Diffing changes
        • Viewing pod logs
    • Data Ingestion & Integrations
      • OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector
        • Overview
        • Traces, Metrics, Signals
        • General OTel guide
        • Concepts
        • Collector configuration
        • Secure proxy setup
        • Head and Tail sampling
        • API endpoints for OTLP
      • OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Guides
        • Kubernetes
        • Using OTel Operator
        • Linux host
        • AWS Lambda
        • Node.js Lambda details
        • .NET
        • Java
        • Node.js SDK setup
        • SDK Exporter configuration
      • Integrations
        • Sending Prometheus metrics
        • Grafana Datasource
        • Scraping OpenMetrics
        • Configuring Promtail
    • Platform extensions
      • CLI
        • Installation and usage
        • Service tokens
      • Custom Integrations
        • Stackpacks
        • Installing StackPacks
        • Troubleshooting oTel mappings
      • Customizing standard monitors.
        • Adding monitors using the CLI
        • K8s dynamic threshold monitors
        • K8s derived state monitors
        • Remediation guide
      • Health
        • External health synchronization
        • Send health data over HTTP
        • Repeat Snapshots JSON
        • Transactional Increments JSON
        • Debug health synchronization
      • Custom charts
        • Adding custom charts to components
        • Writing PromQL queries for representative charts
        • Troubleshooting custom metric charts
        • Writing PromQL
        • CLI Support for metric bindings
    • Reference
      • SUSE Observability Query Language (STQL)
      • Chart units
      • Metrics references
      • Topology Identifiers
SUSE Observability Latest
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  • Cluster API
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  • Continuous Delivery
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    • 0.9
  • K3s
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  • OS Manager
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  • RKE2
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  • SUSE Observability
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  • SUSE® Rancher for AWS
    • Latest
  • SUSE® Rancher Manager
    • v2.13
    • v2.12
    • v2.11
    • v2.10
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  • SUSE® Security
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
  • SUSE® Storage
    • 1.11 (Dev)
    • 1.10 (Latest)
    • 1.9
  • SUSE® Virtual Clusters
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    • v1.0.1
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  • SUSE® Virtualization
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  • SUSE Observability
  • Getting started
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Getting started

You might first want to familiarize yourself with the Open Telemetry terminology and concepts. like, signals, resources, etc.

To get started monitoring one of your own applications follow the getting started guide that matches best with your deployment setup:

  • Kubernetes or Rancher

  • Linux host

  • AWS Lambda functions