Visualization and Dashboards
Transform your observability data into actionable insights with real-time, customizable dashboards for logs, metrics, and traces.
Why Use OpenObserve Dashboards?
Create powerful dashboards that help teams understand and act on their data faster, with intuitive controls and extensive customization options.
Real-Time Monitoring
Interactive Dashboards
Build dynamic visualizations using 19+ chart types including heatmaps, time-series graphs, and tables. Create comprehensive views of your system's health with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Continuous Updates
Monitor your systems with real-time data refresh. Configure update intervals for each dashboard or panel.
Customizable Views
Dynamic Filtering
Create flexible dashboards with variables and templates. Filter across multiple panels simultaneously to quickly identify patterns and issues.
Inbuilt + Custom charts
19 in-built chart types. Custom charts to build 100s of chart types that you want. Unleash your imagination.
Advanced Query Capabilities
Multiple Query Languages
Build sophisticated analyses using SQL and PromQL. Leverage VRL for powerful data transformations.
Query Builder
Drag and drop query builder to build dashboards fast.
Seamless Collaboration
Dashboard Sharing
Share important visualizations across teams while maintaining access controls. Easily import and export any dashboard.
Drill-Down Analysis
Navigate from high-level metrics to detailed logs with context-preserved drilling. Investigate issues faster by maintaining context across views.
Get Started with OpenObserve Dashboards
Create meaningful visualizations in minutes. Import our Community Dashboards—prebuilt, ready-to-use dashboards for various use cases and technologies–or build your own custom views.
Openobserve Cloud Free Tier
Monthly Limits:
Ingestion - 50 GB logs, 50 GB metrics , 50 GB traces- Query volume - 200 GB
- Pipelines - 50 GB of Data Processing
- 1K RUM & Session Replay
- 1K Action Script Runs
- 3 Users
- 7-Days Retention
Get started in minutes—no credit card required.
Visualization and Dashboard FAQs
What visualization types are available?
OpenObserve supports over 19 chart types for different visualization needs. Time-series data can be displayed using line graphs, area charts, and bar charts. Tables provide detailed data views with sorting and filtering. Heat maps show data density and patterns. Gauge visualizations display current values against thresholds. Each visualization type includes specific configuration options for customizing appearance and behavior.
How do I import prebuilt dashboards into OpenObserve?
Simply download the desired JSON file from our Community Dashboards repository, navigate to the Dashboards section in OpenObserve, click on "Import," select the file, and you're ready to go!
What drill-down capabilities are available?
The drill-down feature enables navigation between related dashboards while maintaining context. You can navigate directly to logs or other dashboards while carrying over filter values, enabling a deeper level of data analysis without losing context.
How do queries work in dashboards?
OpenObserve supports multiple query languages for dashboard visualizations. You can use SQL for complex data analysis and aggregations, PromQL for metric queries, and VRL for data transformations. The query editor provides syntax highlighting and auto-completion. The Query Inspector helps debug and optimize query performance. Results can be previewed before adding to dashboards.
What customization options are available?
Dashboards can be customized with various options, including panel arrangements, time ranges, and refresh intervals. Variables allow dynamic filtering across multiple panels. Templates enable reusable dashboard configurations. Panel settings include axis labels, thresholds, and legends. Dashboards automatically adjust to different screen sizes and can be viewed in full-screen mode.
How does real-time updating work?
Dashboard panels support auto-refresh functionality with configurable intervals. You can set refresh rates per panel or globally for the entire dashboard. Time range controls allow viewing data from recent minutes to months. The system optimizes query performance to maintain responsiveness during updates.
What are community dashboards?
Community dashboards are pre-built, ready-to-use dashboards for common use cases. They can be imported directly into your OpenObserve instance and customized as needed. These dashboards cover various monitoring scenarios, including infrastructure, applications, and services.
How does dashboard sharing work?
Dashboards can be shared with other users in your organization. Access controls determine who can view or edit specific dashboards. Shared dashboards maintain their configurations and auto-refresh settings. You can export dashboard configurations to share across environments or teams.
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