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title: Introduction to Instance Observer-Guided
description: The Introduction to Instance Observer Accelerator provides guidance on understanding and monitoring performance using Instance Observer.
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# Introduction to Instance Observer-Guided

The Introduction to Instance Observer Accelerator provides guidance on understanding and monitoring performance using Instance Observer.

## Accelerator overview

Introduction to Instance Observer provides Impact Guided customers with an overview of Instance Observer, a review of specific telemetry for instance availability, prescriptive guidance on visible trends, and leading practices on monitoring your ServiceNow platform. See [Monitor instance performance with Instance Observer](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/impact/io-overview.md) for more information on the feature.

## Package Availability

**Note:** This Accelerator is available for Impact Guided, Guided+ \(Strategic Value or Platform Governance\) packages.

## What You Get

-   **Session Preparation**

    The Technical Accelerator Consultant assesses customer's Instance Observer data​

-   **Customer Coaching Session \#1 \(Up to 60 minutes\)**

    Includes the following:

    -   Overview of Instance Observer
    -   Review  specific telemetry​ and instance  availability​
    -   Highlight and review visible trends​
    -   Provide leading practices for ​monitoring  instance performance
-   **Customer Coaching Session \#2 \(Optional upon Customer request - up to 60 minutes\)**

    Opportunity for Q&A related to Instance Observer.


## Requested Customer Resources

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Customer Resource

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Responsibilities

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Platform Owner \(Required\)

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Responsible for the overall accountability of the ServiceNow platform. Provides leadership and oversight to the System Administrators, ensures team alignment to business strategy and the ServiceNow roadmap, and is actively involved in the overarching governance of the platform.

</td></tr><tr><td>

System Administrator\(s\) \(Required\)

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Maintains the stability and usability of the ServiceNow platform by performing application maintenance, managing support for cases related to ServiceNow applications, and contributing to ServiceNow software releases by delivering configuration tasks and features.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Developer\(s\) \(Recommended\)

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Writes code for the ServiceNow platform.

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</table>## Exceptions

This Impact Accelerator in its entirety or portions of the Impact Accelerator Activities may not be available to customers in the FedRAMP, NSC DOD IL5, or Australia IRAP-Protected data centers, to self-hosted customers, or in other restricted environments, or to managed service providers \(except for their internal use\).