Classic observability apps
In classic navigation, OpenSearch Dashboards provides observability apps in the Observability menu. These apps don’t require a workspace or additional settings in opensearch_dashboards.yml.
The following table describes the apps and lists whether each app is available with a single data source and when multiple data sources are enabled.
| App | Description | Single data source | Multiple data sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event analytics | Query log events using Piped Processing Language (PPL) and create visualizations from the results. | Yes | No |
| Trace analytics | View dashboards of traces and services, including latency, error rate, and throughput. | Yes | Yes |
| Metric analytics | Query and visualize metrics stored in Prometheus or in OpenTelemetry metrics indexes in OpenSearch. | Yes | Yes |
| Application analytics | Combine the logs, traces, and metrics of an application into a single view of its health. | Yes | No |
| Operational panels | Organize PPL visualizations into dashboards. | Yes | No |
| Notebooks | Combine Markdown text, SQL and PPL queries, and visualizations into reports and runbooks. | Yes | Yes |