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SUSE Observability

    • SUSE Observability documentation
    • Get started
      • Quick start guide
      • SUSE Observability walk-through
      • SUSE Rancher Prime
        • Air-gapped
        • Agent Air-gapped
      • SUSE Cloud Observability
    • Guided troubleshooting
      • What is guided troubleshooting?
      • YAML configuration
      • Changes
      • Logs
    • Monitors and alerts
      • Monitors
      • Out of the box monitors for Kubernetes
      • Notifications
        • Configure notifications
        • Notification channels
          • Slack
          • Teams
          • Webhook
          • Opsgenie
        • Troubleshooting
      • Customize
        • Add a monitor using the CLI
        • Derived State monitors
        • Dynamic Threshold monitors
        • Override monitor arguments
        • Write a remediation guide
    • Metrics
      • Explore Metrics
      • Custom charts
        • Adding custom charts to components
        • Writing PromQL queries for representative charts
        • Troubleshooting custom charts
      • Advanced Metrics
        • Grafana Datasource
        • Prometheus remote_write
        • OpenMetrics
    • Logs
      • Explore Logs
      • Log Shipping
    • Traces
      • Explore Traces
    • Health
      • Health synchronization
      • Send health data over HTTP
        • Send health data
        • Repeat Snapshots JSON
        • Transactional Increments JSON
      • Debug health synchronization
    • Views
      • Kubernetes views
      • Custom views
      • Component views
      • Explore views
      • View structure
        • Overview perspective
        • Highlights perspective
        • Topology perspective
        • Events perspective
        • Metrics perspective
        • Traces perspective
        • Filters
        • Keyboard shortcuts
      • Timeline and time travel
    • Agent
      • Network configuration
        • Proxy Configuration
      • Using a custom registry
      • Custom Secret Management
        • Custom Secret Management (Deprecated)
      • Request tracing
        • Certificates for sidecar injection
      • Supported architectures
    • Open Telemetry
      • Overview
      • Getting started
        • Concepts
        • Kubernetes
        • Kubernetes Operator
        • Linux
        • AWS Lambda
      • Open telemetry collector
        • Sampling
        • SUSE Observability OTLP APIs
      • Instrumentation
        • Java
        • Node.js
          • Auto-instrumentation of Lambdas.js
        • .NET
        • SDK Exporter configuration
      • Troubleshooting
    • CLI
      • SUSE Observability CLI
    • Self-hosted setup
      • Install SUSE Observability
        • Requirements
        • Kubernetes / OpenShift
          • Kubernetes install
          • OpenShift install
          • Alibaba Cloud ACK install
          • Configure Kubernetes Affinities
          • Required Permissions
          • Override default configuration
          • Configure storage
          • Exposing SUSE Observability outside of the cluster
        • Initial run guide
        • Troubleshooting
          • Advanced Troubleshooting
          • Support Package (Logs)
      • Configure SUSE Observability
        • Slack notifications
        • E-mail notifications
        • Stackpacks
        • Advanced
          • Analytics
      • Release Notes
        • v2.0.0 - 11/09/2024
        • v2.0.1 - 18/09/2024
        • v2.0.2 - 01/10/2024
        • v2.1.0 - 29/Oct/2024
        • v2.2.0 - 09/Dec/2024
        • v2.2.1 - 10/Dec/2024
        • v2.3.0 - 30/Jan/2025
        • v2.3.1 - 17/Mar/2025
        • v2.3.2 - 22/Apr/2025
        • v2.3.3 - 07/May/2025
        • v2.3.4 - 04/Jun/2025
        • v2.3.5 - 19/Jun/2025
      • Upgrade SUSE Observability
        • Migration from StackState
        • Steps to upgrade
        • Version-specific upgrade instructions
      • Uninstall SUSE Observability
      • Air-gapped
        • SUSE Observability air-gapped
        • SUSE Observability Kubernetes Agent air-gapped
      • Data management
        • Backup and Restore
          • Kubernetes backup
          • Configuration backup
        • Data retention
        • Clear stored data
      • Security
        • Authentication
          • Authentication options
          • Single password
          • File-based
          • LDAP
          • Open ID Connect (OIDC)
            • Microsoft Entra ID
          • KeyCloak
          • Service tokens
          • Troubleshooting
        • RBAC
          • Role-based Access Control
          • Permissions
          • Roles
          • Scopes
        • Self-signed certificates
        • External secrets
    • Security
      • Service Tokens
      • API Keys
    • SaaS
      • User Management
    • Reference
      • SUSE Observability Query Language (STQL)
      • Chart units
      • Topology Identifiers
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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

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