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.
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.
Next
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.