# Observability dashboards

Observability dashboards let you compose Foundry telemetry into custom, reusable views built from [Workshop](../../workshop/overview/index.md) widgets. Rather than inspecting each resource one at a time, you can assemble the signals that matter for a workflow onto a single page and lay them out to match how your team operates.

Today, observability dashboards are built with the [Observability Chart](../../workshop/widgets-observability-chart/index.md) widget, which plots a resource's metrics over time. Additional observability widgets are in development.

## How observability dashboards differ from Ontology and AIP observability

[Ontology and AIP observability](../../aip-observability/overview/index.md) provides built-in metrics, distributed tracing, execution history, and logs, embedded throughout the platform in applications such as [Workflow Lineage](../../workflow-lineage/overview/index.md), [Ontology Manager](../../ontology-manager/overview/index.md), and more. These capabilities are available out of the box and require no configuration.

Observability dashboards draw on the same underlying signals, but you build them yourself in Workshop: choose the resources and metrics that matter and arrange them on a page as desired.

## Build a dashboard

The [Observability Chart](../../workshop/widgets-observability-chart/index.md) widget plots the metrics of a single resource—such as execution counts, P95 duration, CPU, and memory—over a time range. Because it is a standard Workshop widget, you can:

1. Add several Observability Chart widgets to a single Workshop module, each charting a different action, function, or compute module.
2. Bind their start and end times to shared [timestamp variables](../../workshop/concepts-variables/index.md), so selecting a range on one chart re-scopes every widget bound to the same variables.
3. Arrange them alongside other widgets using Workshop's layout tools to reflect the structure of your workflow.

The result is a custom observability dashboard that lets operators assess the health of every charted resource in a workflow from a single page. See the [Observability Chart widget](../../workshop/widgets-observability-chart/index.md) page for configuration details.