Creating observer jobs

Observers for Instana and ServiceNow are configured as part of the standard integration process on the Integrations page in the UI. These observers can collect data from different types of data sources. Additionally, other topology observers are accessible on the Integrations page in the UI, and link to the Topology Manager UI. To run other observer jobs, you can configure and schedule the jobs through the Topology Manager UI.

Observers provide topology data for integrations, which can help with understanding how resources are connected to each other. In addition, they provide probable cause information for events that are published to integrated collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams.

For more information about working with observer jobs, see Defining observer jobs.