From shadow to insights: Observe your AI footprint with New Relic Catalogs

Increase your productivity: Access your Dashboards directly from Catalogs

Keep your custom dashboards where your entities live — curated, contextual, and ready the moment you need them, for everyday work and to cut MTTR when things break. 

The rapid expansion of systems, microservices, and cloud environments has produced an overwhelming volume of observability data. It's essential for keeping systems healthy — but teams constantly hit data silos and fragmented knowledge, losing time hunting for the right view across dozens of tools.

Catalogs exist to fix that: a single, curated home for your high-value entities and everything that matters about them. It's where you start — not only when something breaks, but whenever you need to understand, monitor, or navigate your system. And the best time to organize that home is before you need it.

Today we're adding one of the most valuable pieces of that context: your dashboards.

The solution: Dashboards in context

Dashboards are now integrated directly as contextual information within your Catalogs experience.

Catalogs provide a centralized inventory of your high-value entities, augmented with the information that matters most. By linking dashboards to those entities, we connect the what (your services and infrastructure) with the how (your custom visualizations). Assign the dashboards that matter to a service, application, or infra resource once — and from then on, anyone on your team reaches the exact dashboard they need in a single click, right from the entity.

Because you curate this ahead of time, the payoff shows up everywhere: onboarding a new teammate, a routine health review, a weekly check-in, or the middle of an incident. The knowledge is already in place, waiting.

Why this changes your workflow

• Ready before you need it: Curate once, benefit continuously. Whether you're getting to know a service, reviewing it, or troubleshooting it at 2am, the right dashboard is already attached — no setup at the moment, no searching.
• Quick access where it matters: Your custom dashboards live right alongside the entities they describe, giving immediate, contextual access to your curated metrics.
• A truly centralized hub: Stop jumping between product experiences to find the right dashboard. Catalogs is your single source of truth and starting point.
• Deep operational context: Catalogs capture the full picture of each entity — ownership, dependencies, and now your custom dashboards — so you understand your ecosystem at a glance.
• Faster resolution when it counts: When an entity shows signs of distress, jump straight from Catalogs to the curated entity overview or the dashboards you've attached for deeper analysis — without losing context or momentum.

How to get started

Head to the Applications or Infrastructure Catalogs and link your most important dashboards to their corresponding entities. Once added, they become part of each entity's context — a 1-click bridge from your starting point to the deep-dive views your team relies on.

Catalogs are your go-to place to discover, understand, and navigate your systems — every day, not just when things break. Set them up now, and your insights will be ready and waiting the moment you need them.