We’re improving the look of Observability Cloud’s search capability. Search is a fast and easy way to navigate, and can also be a good way to discover available resources that are relevant to your use case, especially if you’re just getting started with Observability Cloud.
To access search, click the magnifying-glass icon in the top right corner of any page in Observability Cloud. Here’s how search in Observability looks after this update.
Search displays results by category. This not only makes the results easy to read, but also helps you discover the different kinds of resources that are available in Observability Cloud. If a “more results” link is available, you can click it to see more matching results in that category. Category headers are also clickable, and take you to the ‘home’ destination for that category.
If you already know what kind of Observability resource you want to find, you can start your search with a prefix like ‘service:’ to focus on just one category. The product documentation, linked beneath the search bar, lists all supported prefixes.
For efficiency and accessibility, you can search using only keyboard controls. Open search with the keyboard shortcut ctrl+shift+a, navigate the results list with arrow keys and enter, and dismiss the search with esc.
This update also removes items from search that users found less helpful:
- The shortcut to “Search metrics for …” no longer appears at the end of search results. You can still search for metrics by name, or navigate to Metric finder for more complex metrics searches.
- Actions like ‘Create Dashboard’ can be found in the Create menu, which you can open by clicking the ‘+’ icon that is directly to the right of the magnifying-glass icon for search.
Click here to learn more about search in Observability Cloud
