Application analytics

To get started, select the Menu button on the upper left corner of the OpenSearch Dashboards interface. Next, select Observability, and then choose Application analytics.

Enter a name for your application and optionally add a description.
Do at least one of the following:

Use PPL to specify the base query.

You can’t change the base query after the application is created.

Select services & entities from the dropdown or the service map.
Select trace groups from the dropdown or the table.

4. Choose Create.

Choose the Log Events tab.
Choose the Visualizations tab to see your visualizations.
Expand the Save dropdown menu, enter a name for your visualization, then choose Save.

Availability is the status of your application determined by availability levels set on a .

To create an availability level, you must configure the following:

color: The color of the availability badge on the home page.
name: The text in the availability badge on the home page.
expression: Comparison operator to determine the availability.
value: Value to use when calculating availability.

Time series metric

A time series metric is any visualization that has a query that spans over a timestamp and is a line chart. You can then use PPL to define arbitrary conditions on your logs to create a visualization over time.

Example

Choose Line in visualization configurations to create a time series metric.