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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    • 1.32-dev
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  • Cluster API
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    • 0.23
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    • 0.11
  • Continuous Delivery
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    • 0.11
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    • 0.9
  • K3s
    • Latest
  • OS Manager
    • 1.9-dev
    • 1.8
    • 1.7
    • 1.6
    • 1.5
  • RKE2
    • Latest
  • SUSE Observability
    • Latest
  • SUSE® Rancher for AWS
    • Latest
  • SUSE® Rancher Manager
    • v2.13
    • v2.12
    • v2.11
    • v2.10
    • v2.9
  • SUSE® Security
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
  • SUSE® Storage
    • 1.11 (Dev)
    • 1.10 (Latest)
    • 1.9
  • SUSE® Virtual Clusters
    • v1.0.2-latest
    • v1.0.1
    • v1.0.0
  • SUSE® Virtualization
    • v1.8 (Dev)
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  • SUSE Observability
  • Data Ingestion & Integrations
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