Overview

Overview is the first thing you see when you sign in, a live read on the health of your event-driven system.

The first time you open it

If none of your services have reported an event yet, Overview shows a short setup card instead of data: create an API key, wire the SDK into one consumer, and the page starts filling in on its own as soon as the first event arrives. No page refresh needed.

Once events are flowing

Key numbers across the top update live: events per minute, p95 latency, events currently parked in the DLQ, error rate, open incidents, and duplicates caught. Click any of these to jump straight into the relevant screen filtered to that number.

Live event flow shows the stages of a recent trace: what type of event it was, which consumer handled each hop, and how long each step took. You can see a real transaction moving through your system without leaving the page. Open it in the full Trace Graph for more detail, or jump straight to investigating if a stage is stuck in Dead-lettered.

Active incidents lists anything currently open, with severity, how long it's been running, how many events are affected, and which services are involved. See Incidents for the full list and detail view.

DLQ pressure groups everything currently dead-lettered by failure class, with a count and severity for each, a quick read on the shape of what's failing before you open the full DLQ Center.

Consumer health lists every consumer Observatory knows about with its current status (Healthy, Degraded, or Down), error rate, and throughput, with a shortcut into its controls. See Consumers to pause, throttle, or drain one.