Administer your tools and users

Chronosphere Observability Platform offers tools and guidance for managing users, teams, collections, and your infrastructure-as-code settings.

Administrative users focus on observability tools so that developers can use those tools to monitor and maintain the health of their distributed system. As an administrative user, you might focus on one or more of the following tasks.

Cost control

Track telemetry usage against your contract with the License Overview, which surfaces consumption snapshots and trends for each telemetry type. To investigate what’s driving growth, analyze consumption across partitions and budgets. Then use the Control Plane to shape, sample, and reduce the data you persist.

Data collection

Ingest telemetry data into Chronosphere Observability Platform, which can include metrics, traces, and change events. Your Collector selection depends on the data you plan to ingest. Chronosphere recommends using the Chronosphere Collector, but can also ingest data from the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Data usability

Explore your data to understand where you can normalize, sanitize, and optimize telemetry data to make it usable for developers and to filter out less actionable data. Analyze usage metrics and implement aggregation rules to improve the quality and reduce the cardinality of stored metrics data.

Service level objectives

Define service level objectives (SLOs) that measure your services’ availability from your users’ perspective. Effective SLOs combine user-focused indicators, realistic objectives based on historical performance, and tuned burn rate alerts that help responders react before error budgets are exhausted. Design service level objectives to choose the right indicators, set realistic objectives, and configure burn rate alerts for your services.

Platform usability

Create and manage collections to group Observability Platform resources associated with a service or feature you want to monitor. You create teams to organize accounts into groups and define permissions for sensitive management and administrative operations. A team’s accounts have shared responsibility for individual services, which Observability Platform represents as collections.