SUSE Observability

    • SUSE Observability documentation
    • Release
      • Release Notes
        • v2.12.0 - 14/Oct/2026
        • v2.11.2 - 23/Sep/2026
        • v2.11.1 - 15/Sep/2026
        • v2.11.0 - 07/Sep/2026
        • v2.10.3 - 04/Aug/2026
        • v2.10.2 - 30/Jun/2026
        • v2.10.1 - 28/May/2026
        • v2.10.0 - 12/May/2026
        • v2.9.0 - 25/Mar/2026
        • v2.8.1 - 17/Mar/2026
        • v2.8.0 - 03/Mar/2026
        • v2.7.0 - 14/Jan/2026
        • v2.6.3 - 25/Nov/2025
        • v2.6.2 - 03/Nov/2025
        • v2.6.1 - 13/Oct/2025
        • v2.6.0 - 29/Sep/2025
        • v2.5.0 - 08/Sep/2025
        • v2.4.0 - 25/Aug/2025
        • v2.3.7 - 28/Jul/2025
        • v2.3.6 - 23/Jul/2025
        • v2.3.5 - 19/Jun/2025
        • v2.3.4 - 04/Jun/2025
        • v2.3.3 - 07/May/2025
        • v2.3.2 - 22/Apr/2025
        • v2.3.1 - 17/Mar/2025
        • v2.3.0 - 30/Jan/2025
        • v2.2.1 - 10/Dec/2024
        • v2.2.0 - 09/Dec/2024
        • v2.1.0 - 29/Oct/2024
        • v2.0.2 - 01/Oct/2024
        • v2.0.1 - 18/Sep/2024
        • v2.0.0 - 11/Sep/2024
      • Release Strategy
      • Compatibility matrix
    • Installation
      • SUSE Rancher Prime Installation
      • Platform: Self-hosted
        • Installing SUSE Observability
        • Getting Started and Requirements
          • System requirements and sizing
          • HA setup for clusters with regular maintenance windows
          • Initial run guide
        • Installation Guides
          • Kubernetes install
          • OpenShift install
          • Alibaba Cloud ACK install
          • Air-gapped platform installation
        • Advanced Configuration
          • Authentication
            • Authentication options
            • Open ID Connect (OIDC)
            • KeyCloak
            • Microsoft Entra ID
            • LDAP
            • File-based
            • Single password
            • Service Tokens
            • API Keys
            • Troubleshooting authentication and authorization
          • Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
            • What is RBAC?
            • Permissions
            • Roles
            • Rancher
            • Scopes
          • Storage & Resources
            • Storage classes and customization
            • Run SUSE Observability on Longhorn
            • Data retention periods and resizing
            • Change the sizing profile
            • Configure Kubernetes affinities
          • Network & Security
            • Expose SUSE Observability outside of the cluster
            • Self-signed certificates
            • Disabling TLS verification
            • Managing secrets externally
            • Verify container image signatures
            • Required permissions and Pod security
            • Override default Helm value
            • Troubleshooting authentication and authorization
          • AI Assistant & MCP Server
          • Analytics
          • Notifications
            • Slack
            • E-mail
          • Backup & Restore
            • Enable backups
            • Restore backups
            • Migration to S3Proxy
          • Legacy Backup
            • Kubernetes backup (Legacy)
            • Configuration backup (Legacy)
        • Troubleshooting
          • Quick troubleshooting guide
          • Advanced troubleshooting
          • UI extension troubleshooting
          • Support Package (Logs)
          • Support Package (Performance)
        • Upgrade & Uninstallation
          • Upgrading
            • Migration from StackState
            • Steps to upgrade
            • Version-specific upgrade instructions
          • Uninstallation
            • Removing Helm charts and resources
            • Wiping data
      • Platform: Hosted by SUSE
        • SUSE Cloud Observability
          • Quick Start guide
          • Managing users via Keycloak
            • Microsoft Entra ID
            • Google
            • Generic OIDC Provider
      • Agent
        • Quick start guide
      • Rancher UI extension
        • Installing UI extensions
    • Data Ingestion & Integrations
      • Agent and OpenTelemetry
        • Overview and architecture
        • Get Started
          • Enabling OpenTelemetry in the Agent
          • Send application telemetry through the Agent gateway
        • Collect data
          • Scraping OpenMetrics with ServiceMonitor
          • Kubernetes resource collector
        • Component reference
          • Telemetry gateway
          • OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Guides
            • Node.js Lambda details
            • .NET
            • Java
            • Node.js SDK setup
        • Deployment & Configuration
          • Hardware architecture support
          • Resource requirements
          • Air-gapped installation using Helm charts
          • Network configuration for SaaS
          • Configuration for Proxy connections
          • Custom Secret Management
          • Request tracing management
          • Request-tracing sidecar certificates
        • Advanced: separately managed collectors
          • OpenTelemetry deployment options
          • Using OTel Operator
          • Linux host
          • AWS Lambda
          • Collector configuration
          • Collector sampling
        • Reference
          • Open Telemetry concepts
          • OTLP API endpoints
        • Troubleshooting
          • Agent troubleshooting
          • OpenTelemetry troubleshooting
        • Legacy
          • Scraping OpenMetrics
      • Integrations
        • Sending Prometheus metrics
        • Grafana Datasource
        • Configuring Promtail
        • SUSE Virtualization
      • External Health
        • External health synchronization
        • Send health data over HTTP
        • Repeat Snapshots JSON
        • Transactional Increments JSON
        • Debug health synchronization
    • Migration
      • Migration from StackState
      • Helm chart migration guide for v2.10.0
      • Migrating from StackState 6.x to SUSE Observability
      • Migrate to global configuration mode
    • Usage
      • SUSE Observability walk-through
      • Guided Troubleshooting
        • What is guided troubleshooting?
        • Configuring YAML
        • Diffing changes
        • Viewing pod logs
      • Features and UI
        • Kubernetes views
        • Understanding Filters and Perspectives
        • Creating and saving custom views
        • Explore views
        • Table views
        • Resource summary page
        • Using the Topology graph
        • Events timeline
        • Exploring metrics
        • Component metrics
        • Explore Traces
        • Traces perspective
        • Log browser
        • Using Topology and Event filters
        • Keyboard shortcuts
        • Using the Timeline and Time Travel
      • Dashboard
        • Creating and managing dashboards
        • Configuring widgets
        • Using variables
        • Layout and organization
      • Monitors
        • Monitors
        • Out-of-the-box K8s monitors
        • Customizing standard monitors
        • Adding monitors to components using UI
        • Silencing
      • AI Sessions
        • Use AI Assistant in the UI
        • Use external AI tools with MCP
      • Notifications
        • Configuring notifications
        • Slack
        • Teams
        • Webhook
        • Opsgenie
        • E-mail
        • Notifications troubleshooting
      • Stackpacks
        • Installing StackPacks
    • Customize
      • Creating a Custom Integration
      • Demo environment
      • StackPack reference
      • Adding StackPacks to the platform
      • OpenTelemetry mappings
        • Getting started
        • Concepts
        • Schema
        • Troubleshooting
      • Monitors
        • Derived state monitors
        • Dynamic threshold monitors
        • Remediation guide
        • Monitor schema Reference
        • CLI Support for monitors
        • Troubleshooting monitors
      • Presentations
        • Concepts
        • Presentation Overview
        • Presentation Highlight
        • Presentation Metrics
          • Overview
          • Summary Metrics
          • Highlight Metrics
          • Metrics Perspective
          • Metrics Schema
          • Metrics Troubleshooting
        • Presentation Projections
        • Presentation Interpolation
        • Presentation Schema
    • CLI
      • Installation and usage
      • Service tokens
    • Reference
      • SUSE Observability Query Language (STQL)
      • Writing PromQL
      • Chart units
      • Metrics references
      • Topology Identifiers
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To view the traces associated with the pod, service, deployment, statefulset or daemonset, click on the "Traces" menu item. This will take you to the Traces Perspective

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