# Document observability hub (Collaboration documents)

The **Collaboration documents** section in the Management Panel lets you monitor and debug the lifecycle of collaboration documents in an environment – their collaboration session and storage status, a chronological action history, save history, and downloadable snapshot debug bundles.

> **Note**
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> 📖 For a full walkthrough of the documents list and the **Collaboration history**, **Snapshots**, and **Storage** tabs, read the [Document observability hub guide](../../developer-resources/monitoring/document-observability-hub.md).

> **Warning**
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> The Document observability hub reports on collaboration document activity. It does not contain logs about failures in the infrastructure, database, or the application itself. To find those, visit the [Logs and monitoring](logs.md) guide.

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## Enabling the feature

The Document observability hub is enabled by default. It is controlled by the `ENABLE_OBSERVABILITY_HUB` configuration option in your Collaboration Server On-Premises configuration. This is a **server-wide** option set once for the whole deployment – unlike some features, it is not toggled per environment. Set it to `false` to hide the **Collaboration documents** section.

> **Note**
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> Observability data (history, saves, and snapshot metadata) is retained for 14 days for the On-Premises variant. Older data is removed automatically and does not require any additional configuration.

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