Use cases
The knowledge graph helps you solve common observability challenges through streamlined workflows. These use cases show you how to accomplish specific tasks without writing queries or jumping between dashboards.
Common workflows
These workflows guide you through specific tasks using the knowledge graph features together to solve real-world observability challenges.
Monitor selected services
Set up filtered views of your team’s services for daily monitoring. Track health status, RED metrics, and insights across services you own.
Refer to Monitor selected services.
Identify unhealthy infrastructure
Quickly find infrastructure components experiencing issues across your entire environment. Filter by insight categories to focus on critical problems.
Refer to Identify unhealthy infrastructure.
Investigate incidents across multiple entities
Correlate insights, metrics, and logs across services and infrastructure when troubleshooting complex incidents that span multiple components.
Refer to Investigate incidents.
Explore service dependencies and impact
Visualize relationships between services and infrastructure to understand the scope of impact and trace issues to their source.
Refer to Explore dependencies.
Track recent changes and their effects
Monitor deployments, configuration changes, and scale events to identify correlations with performance degradation or errors.
Refer to Track changes.
How to use these workflows
Each use case provides:
- When to use it - The scenario this workflow addresses
- Step-by-step instructions - How to accomplish the task
- What to look for - Key indicators and patterns
- Next steps - Where to go for deeper investigation
Start with the workflow that matches your immediate need, or explore all five to understand the full capabilities of the knowledge graph.
