An overview of the various interfaces for interacting with Tanzu Observability (formerly known as VMware Aria Operations for Applications).
Our service provides different kinds of interfaces for performing different kinds of tasks. Click on the links for further information about each type of interface.
| This Interface | Provides Support For These Tasks |
|---|---|
| Tanzu Observability user interface (UI) | Interacting directly with our service from your browser. Sample tasks include visualizing metrics, histograms, and trace data in charts and dashboards, running queries, setting up alerts and alert notifications, installing and managing integrations, creating events, and so on.
In the original Tanzu Observability subscriptions, this interface also provides support for managing users, user groups, roles, permissions, and preferences. For information about original and onboarded subscriptions and the differences between them, see Subscription Types. |
| VMware Cloud Services Console | In the onboarded Tanzu Observability subscriptions, VMware Cloud services provides support for managing users, user groups, roles, and preferences. For information about original and onboarded subscriptions and the differences between them, see Subscription Types. |
| Tanzu Observability REST API | Writing scripts to perform UI actions programmatically. The REST API is based on Swagger, so you can generate the API client of your choice (including a CLI client). |
| Tanzu Observability SDKs | Instrumenting your application code to send metrics, histograms, and trace data to our service, either through the Wavefront proxy or directly to the Tanzu Observability service. These SDKs are available for most popular programming languages, and are available in GitHub. |
| Tanzu Observability CLIs | Running command-line utilities to install and configure the Wavefront proxy, the Telegraf collector agent, or integrations. |