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The sidebar groups the product into four sections, in the order you usually move through them during an incident: what is broken (Observe), where it runs (Infrastructure), what it costs and protects (Govern), and how the account is configured (Manage). This page lists every destination in that sidebar, using the labels you will see on screen, with one line on what each is for and a link to its guide.
Before you start. Most sections stay empty until telemetry arrives. If you have not sent anything yet, start with the Quickstart, or look around the playground first — it has two weeks of data already in it.
You do not have to find things by browsing. The sidebar search matches page names and the words people usually use for them — searching k8s finds Kubernetes, and on call finds Escalation policies.

Observe

What your applications are doing: requests, errors, logs, metrics and user sessions.

Infrastructure

Where your software runs: machines, clusters, databases, and checks run from outside.

Govern

Deciding what matters, being told when it breaks, and keeping a record.
Audit log is only shown to the Auditor, Admin and Owner roles. Viewers and Editors do not see it in the sidebar, because the API refuses it to them. See Roles and permissions.The sidebar hides links you would only get an error from; it is not what protects the data. The server checks your role on every request.

Manage

Configuring the account and getting help from the assistant. Usage and Billing are in the account menu in the top bar. What they show depends on your plan.

Not generally available

These sections exist in the product and are hidden from customers today. They are not in your sidebar, and no date is promised for any of them.
Other pages may still mention these sections. If a link or a description sends you to one of them and it is not in your sidebar, that is expected — it is hidden on purpose, not broken. Logs → Saved searches is part of Logs and is available; it is the standalone Saved queries section that is hidden.

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Your first hour

A dashboard, an alert, an incident and an investigation, in that order.

Projects, services and environments

How the product groups your telemetry, and what each grouping controls.