# Observability and console

> The gateway emits logs without personal data, metrics per operation, upstream and tenant (bounded cardinality), and W3C traces. The console reads them…

Concept - Since version 0.1.0 - Flexway v1.6.3 - https://flexway.io/en/docs/product-observability-console/

> Product guide: what the capability brings, for whom, its limits and the version that delivered it - no configuration syntax.

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| **What it does** | The gateway emits logs without personal data, metrics per operation, upstream and tenant (bounded cardinality), and W3C traces. The **console** reads them: overview, traffic, an operation's detail, upstreams and their health, health per replica, recent errors, the gateway's traces, consumption per tenant, agents, the API catalogue, Kafka clients |
| **Why it matters** | The console **is enough without Grafana or a metrics backend**: it becomes the gateway's collector and keeps 35 days of detail and 13 months of aggregates. With your backends, it reads them and stores nothing twice. A provoked upstream outage shows in it within a minute - chart, ranking, alert and a trace of the stage at fault |
| **Alerts** | Built-in rules (error rate, latency, circuit breaker, silent replica, new error), notified by signed webhook; a daily or weekly summary; a rule created from a chart |
| **Catalogue** | The APIs derived from the contracts, their owner, their lifecycle; a Compliance tab lists operations without an owner or deprecated without a withdrawal date |
| **Access** | Local accounts without an identity provider (first admin, admins' MFA), or OIDC alongside; roles and tenant per account; a reader of one tenant gets `403` on another, never a misleading empty list |
| **Mobility** | The whole console works on a phone and a tablet, for on-call |
| **Limits** | A console reads **one** gateway: the multi-gateway console is scoped, without a milestone; the developer portal is a separate product, planned for `1.11.0` |
| **Since** | `0.1.0` (read-only console), `1.0.0` (local accounts), `1.2.0` (redesigned screens, agents, compliance), `1.3.0` (autonomous observability, alerts), `1.4.0` (health per replica, phone and tablet) |
| **Configure** | [Observing](https://flexway.io/en/docs/operations-observability/), [Reading with the console](https://flexway.io/en/docs/operations-console/) |