SUSE Observability

    • SUSE Observability documentation
    • Release
      • Release Notes
        • v2.9.0 - 25/Mar/2026
        • v2.8.1 - 17/Mar/2026
        • 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
      • Compatibility matrix
    • Installation
      • SUSE Rancher Prime Installation
      • Platform: Self-hosted
        • Installing SUSE Observability
        • Getting Started and Requirements
          • System requirements and sizing
          • Initial run guide
        • 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
            • Service Tokens
            • API Keys
            • Troubleshooting authentication and authorization
          • Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
            • What is RBAC?
            • Permissions
            • Roles
            • Rancher
            • Scopes
          • Storage & Resources
            • Storage classes and customization
            • Data retention periods and resizing
            • Configure Kubernetes affinities
          • Network & Security
            • Expose SUSE Observability outside of the cluster
            • Self-signed certificates
            • Disabling TLS verification
            • Managing secrets externally
            • Required permissions and Pod security
            • Override default Helm value
            • Troubleshooting authentication and authorization
          • AI Assistant
          • 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
            • Microsoft Entra ID
            • Google
            • Generic OIDC Provider
      • Agent
        • Hardware architecture support
        • Quick start guide
        • 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
        • Installing UI extensions
    • Usage
      • SUSE Observability walk-through
      • AI Assistant
        • Use AI Assistant in the UI
        • Use external AI tools with MCP
      • 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
        • Collector Installation
          • Kubernetes
          • Using OTel Operator
          • Linux host
          • AWS Lambda
        • Collector configuration
        • Sampling
        • Secure proxy setup
        • API endpoints for OTLP
      • OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Guides
        • Node.js Lambda details
        • .NET
        • Java
        • Node.js SDK setup
        • SDK Exporter configuration
      • Integrations
        • Sending Prometheus metrics
        • Grafana Datasource
        • Scraping OpenMetrics
        • Configuring Promtail
    • Custom Integrations
      • Health
        • External health synchronization
        • Send health data over HTTP
        • Repeat Snapshots JSON
        • Transactional Increments JSON
        • Debug health synchronization
    • CLI
      • Installation and usage
      • Service tokens
    • Reference
      • SUSE Observability Query Language (STQL)
      • Chart units
      • Metrics references
      • Topology Identifiers
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Pod Menu Traces

To view the traces associated with the pod, service, deployment, statefulset or daemonset, click on the "Traces" menu item. This will take you to the Traces Perspective

Component metrics Traces perspective