- Observability: other versions:
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.14
- Get started
- Observability AI Assistant
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Self manage APM Server
- Data Model
- Features
- Navigate the APM UI
- Perform common tasks in the APM UI
- Configure APM agents with central config
- Control access to APM data
- Create an alert
- Create and upload source maps (RUM)
- Create custom links
- Filter data
- Find transaction latency and failure correlations
- Identify deployment details for APM agents
- Integrate with machine learning
- Explore mobile sessions with Discover
- Observe Lambda functions
- Query your data
- Storage Explorer
- Track deployments with annotations
- OpenTelemetry integration
- Manage storage
- Configure
- Advanced setup
- Secure communication
- Monitor
- APM Server API
- APM UI API
- Troubleshoot
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- Known issues
- Log monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring
- AWS monitoring
- Azure monitoring
- Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
- Configure projects
- Configure Synthetics settings
- Grant users access to secured resources
- Manage data retention
- Use Synthetics with traffic filters
- Migrate from the Elastic Synthetics integration
- Scale and architect a deployment
- Synthetics support matrix
- Synthetics Encryption and Security
- Troubleshooting
- Uptime monitoring
- Real user monitoring
- Universal Profiling
- Alerting
- Service-level objectives (SLOs)
- Cases
- CI/CD observability
- Troubleshooting
- Fields reference
- Tutorials
Services
editServices
editService inventory provides a quick, high-level overview of the health and general performance of all instrumented services.
To help surface potential issues, services are sorted by their health status: critical > warning > healthy > unknown. Health status is powered by machine learning and requires anomaly detection to be enabled.
In addition to health status, active alerts for each service are prominently displayed in the service inventory table. Selecting an active alert badge brings you to the Alerts tab where you can learn more about the active alert and take action.
Service groups
editThis functionality is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
Group services together to build meaningful views that remove noise, simplify investigations across services, and combine related alerts. Service groups are Kibana space-specific and available for any users with appropriate access.
To enable Service groups, open Kibana and navigate to Stack Management > Advanced Settings > Observability, and enable the Service groups feature.
To create a service group:
- Navigate to Observability > APM > Services.
- Switch to Service groups.
- Click Create group.
- Specify a name, color, and description.
- Click Select services.
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Specify a Kibana Query Language (KQL) query to filter services by one or more of the following dimensions:
agent.name,service.name,service.language.name,service.environment,labels.<xyz>. Services that match the query within the last 24 hours will be assigned to the group.
Examples
Not sure where to get started? Here are some sample queries you can build from:
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Group services by environment—in this example, "production":
service.environment : "production" -
Group services by name—this example groups those that end in "beat":
service.name : *beat(matches services named "Auditbeat", "Heartbeat", "Filebeat", etc.)
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