Observis Support

The Histogram card groups a device's readings into ranges and shows how many fell into each one. Where a Graph card answers "what happened and when", a histogram answers "how often, and at what mag...

The Camera card shows an image from a site camera, with the timestamp it was captured and controls to step backwards and forwards through the sequence. It puts a picture of the site next to the rea...

A Virtual Device produces a new value from readings your project already collects. You define an expression, point its variables at device metrics or fixed constants, and the result becomes somethi...

The Virtual devices list shows everything configured for the project: its name, the metric it produces, and the expression behind it. You can search it, toggle any one on or off from the list, and ...

A Virtual Device calculates a new value from readings your project already collects. You define an expression, point its variables at device metrics or constants, and the result becomes a metric yo...

Access in Observis is granted at a specific level, and a role only means something once you know which level it was assigned at. Being an editor is not a property of your account — it is a property...

Most access problems are not broken permissions. They are a role granted at a different level than the one someone is trying to use, or the wrong project open. Work through these in order, because ...

Project settings is where a project's name, description, team, and members are managed. It is reached from Project settings at the bottom of the project's group in the sidebar, and it applies only ...

Pipeline Manager is where you set up and inspect the connections that bring monitoring data into a project. It answers one question better than anywhere else in Observis: what is feeding this proje...

Observis organizes incoming monitoring data into three levels: connections, devices, and metrics. Learning them once explains most of the interface, because the same three words appear when you bui...