Observability integrations
Observability providers are where Obics reads your telemetry (logs, metrics, volumes and cardinality) plus your dashboards and monitors (so it knows what’s actually in use). Obics only reads; it never modifies your vendor.
Add one from the Observability section of the Integrations page. Every provider requires a Display Title (a friendly name) plus its own credentials.
Verifying a connection
Section titled “Verifying a connection”When you submit an observability integration, Obics tests the credentials live before saving. The button cycles through Add Integration → Verifying… → Verified → Setting up…, or shows the error and a Retry button if the credentials are wrong.
The providers
Section titled “The providers”| Provider | Logs | Metrics | What you connect with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Datadog | ✅ | ✅ | Endpoint (api.datadoghq.com), API Key, Application Key |
| Grafana Cloud | ✅ | ✅ | Instance URL (https://mystack.grafana.net) + service-account token (glsa_…) |
| Grafana (self-hosted) | ✅ | ✅ | Per-signal endpoints + tokens: Loki for logs, Prometheus for metrics |
| CloudWatch | — | ✅ | Region, plus IAM Role (AssumeRole) or Access Key |
| Coralogix | ✅ | ✅ | Domain (eu2.coralogix.com), API Key |
Every provider also needs a Display Title. Grafana (both Cloud and self-hosted) is added through a Connect Grafana wizard rather than a single form, since it serves logs (Loki) and metrics (Prometheus/Mimir) separately; a Grafana card serving only one signal shows an Add metrics or Add logs button to extend it.
Logs and Metrics roles
Section titled “Logs and Metrics roles”Each observability card carries a role badge telling Obics what that provider serves:
| Badge | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Logs (purple) | This provider supplies logs for the log pipeline. |
| Metrics (teal) | This provider supplies metrics for the metric pipeline. |
| No role (amber) | Connected but not yet feeding a pipeline. |
Click a badge to reassign it (Logs, Metrics, Logs + Metrics, or No role). An organization has one logs provider and one metrics provider at a time; claiming a role moves it away from the other card. The first observability provider you add usually claims both roles automatically.
Service attribute
Section titled “Service attribute”Every observability card shows a Service attribute, the telemetry field Obics
uses to group your logs and metrics per service (for example service_name).
Click Edit on the card to choose it. This matters because Obics ranks and
optimizes per service. On the free plan, choosing the attribute also lets you
pick which services to scan; see Selecting services.