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Create Components

Components represent the tools and assets that you use in your data estate. Observability automatically creates a new component any time an event is received by the Event Ingestion API with a key that does not represent any existing components in the project.

Tip

A data operation might have hundreds of components that need to be monitored. Letting Observability automatically create components saves time and manual effort. These components will appear on the Components page with Created by system in the component details.

How to create components manually

You can also create components in the UI:

  1. Use the drop-down in the menu to select a Project > select Components from the menu.
  2. Click + Add Component.
  3. Select a component type.
  4. Enter a Key, a unique identifier that associates incoming events with this component.
  5. Enter a Name, a human-readable identifier for the component.
  6. Optional. Enter a Description.

  7. Optional. Under Tool, select the external tool the component represents.

    If the tool you need is not available, type any tool name into the field.

  8. Click Add.

Considerations

  • Once a component has been created, its events can be received by Observability. Reference the component's key when sending events to associate them with the correct component. The key displays under the component name on the Components page and as the Key in the component details.
  • To provide better context for the infrastructure that sends events to Observability, the Tool field sets the tool type and icon that display across pages in the UI; it does not affect the integration or connection. To integrate tools, see Integrations.