# Observe

Explore traces, logs, metrics, hosts and Kubernetes in your Tracix workspace, and build dashboards that answer your own questions.

Find what changed and why, across applications and infrastructure. Every view on these pages reads the telemetry your collectors and OpenTelemetry SDKs send to your workspace, so a trace, the log lines it wrote and the host it ran on are a click apart.

- [APM and tracing](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/apm): Services, traces, errors, deployments and CPU profiles

- [Logs and pipelines](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/logs): Search logs, parse them in your collectors and decide how long each source is kept

- [Hosts, Kubernetes and cloud](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/infrastructure): Hosts, containers, clusters and cloud accounts

- [Metrics and dashboards](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/dashboards): Explore metrics, save charts and arrange them on dashboards

## Where each view lives in the console

| Console menu                                                        | What you find there                                                                  | Docs                                                        |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Applications › APM & Traces**                                     | Services, the service map, traces, errors, deployments, profiles and instrumentation | [APM and tracing](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/apm)                        |
| **Infrastructure**                                                  | Hosts, containers, container images, Kubernetes and cloud assets                     | [Hosts, Kubernetes and cloud](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/infrastructure) |
| **Insights › Log Explorer**                                         | Log search, patterns and charts                                                      | [Logs and pipelines](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/logs)                    |
| **Settings › Data Management**                                      | Log pipelines and data lifecycle                                                     | [Logs and pipelines](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/logs)                    |
| **Insights › Metrics Explorer**, **Visualizations**, **Dashboards** | Metrics, saved charts and dashboards                                                 | [Metrics and dashboards](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/dashboards)          |
| **Insights › Traces Explorer**                                      | Recent traces across every service                                                   | [APM and tracing](https://tracix.io/docs/observe/apm)                        |

Most views open on the last 15 minutes. A view you return to remembers the range you last chose.

## Before you begin

Observe pages show data once something sends it. If a view is empty, start with one of these:

- [Install the collector](https://tracix.io/docs/collect/collector/install): Host metrics, logs and Kubernetes

- [Instrument an application](https://tracix.io/docs/collect/instrument/languages): Traces and metrics from OpenTelemetry SDKs

- [Connect a cloud account](https://tracix.io/docs/collect/cloud): AWS, Azure and Google Cloud