Canvas

Dashboards you describe to Möbius, and then keep, tweak, and share

A canvas is a dashboard of live panels — charts, stats, heatmaps, topology, log patterns, incidents — that you build by describing what you want to see. Ask Möbius for "the cart service's errors and its noisiest patterns over the last hour" and it lays out the panels for you. Every panel fetches its own data, so a canvas is always current: Möbius chooses what each panel looks at, never what the numbers are.

Canvases are part of Möbius: if your organization has Möbius Chat, it has Canvas, unless an administrator has turned Canvas off (see For administrators). Open Canvas in the left navigation to see yours.

Building a canvas with Möbius

Möbius Chat builds canvases from any page — open the chat sidebar from the header and ask. You don't have to go anywhere first:

• From the page you're on. Looking at an incident and want its impacted objects on one screen? Ask. Möbius looks the incident up, then builds a canvas scoped to it. The chat shows the canvas as a card while it builds, with an Open link when it's ready.

• On a canvas. With a canvas open, the chat edits that canvas: "make the error chart full width", "add a pie of errors by namespace", "only show checkout", "change the window to the last 24 hours". Edits land on the page as Möbius makes them.

• About what you selected. Click a heatmap cell, a bar, or a chart series and a chip appears above the chat input. Your next question is about that selection — "why is this spiking?" — and "focus on this" narrows the whole canvas to that moment and object.

Say canvas or dashboard when you want one built. Asked a plain question ("which pod of checkout is failing?"), Möbius answers it in the chat instead.

Other ways in

• Incidents — Build canvas on an incident page makes a canvas for that incident: its impacted objects, their error rates, the patterns and events around it, and the topology between them. Once it exists, the same button opens it.

• Workspace dashboard and source pages — Open in Canvas turns the page's panels into a canvas you can rearrange, narrow, and add to.

• Templates — the gallery's Templates tab has starters: Workspace overview, Error hot spots, Incident triage, and Ingestion health. Opening one gives you your own copy to change.

What a panel can show

Panel	Shows
Time series, bar, pie, treemap, radar	Log volume by severity, error ratio, sentiment, anomalies, ingest volume, events — over time or split by service, namespace, pod, deployment, source, and more
Stat, gauge	One number, optionally against the previous window
Heatmap	Many groups over time — sentiment or error ratio by service
Topology graph	Your cluster's objects and how they connect, narrowed to the objects you name
Service dependencies	Who calls whom, from the Code Graph, as a graph or a flow
Patterns	The log patterns list, with a way into the lines behind each
Log samples	Recent log lines matching the panel's filters
Incidents, events	The incidents and events lists, each row linking through
Anomalies	The anomaly view: what was flagged, when, and why
Text	A short Markdown note

Changing a canvas yourself

Everything Möbius does, you can do by hand:

• Add panel opens the panel editor: pick what it shows, how it's drawn, its filters, and its size. Each panel's menu has Edit, Duplicate, and Remove.

• Drag a panel by its header to move it, and drag its corner to resize it. Each kind starts at a sensible size — stats as compact tiles, log lists wide and tall.

• The header sets the time window (with auto refresh) and the canvas's scope: filters every panel follows, so a canvas about one namespace stays about that namespace.

• Variables add a dropdown to the header — a service menu, say — and the panels you choose follow it. Pick a value and those panels narrow to it; leave it empty and they show everything.

• Drilling in (a focus from Möbius, Focus on in the anomalies list, or clicking a topology node) is a view, not an edit: a pill in the header shows what you've narrowed to, and Reset puts it back. Your browser keeps the view for when you come back to the canvas.

Canvases save as you go. Revisions lists every earlier version, including the ones Möbius wrote, so any change can be undone.

Sharing

A new canvas is private to you. Share with organization makes it visible to everyone in your organization; they can open and explore it, and Save as a new canvas gives them their own copy to change. Only the owner (or an org admin) can change or delete the original.

For administrators

Canvas comes with Möbius Chat on every plan. To turn it off for your organization, contact support; Canvas then leaves the navigation, and Möbius stops offering to build canvases.