Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for providing an aggregate key performance indicator (KPI) that spans multiple services and for providing user adjustment to KPI factors via a GUI that enables a user to configure an aggregate KPI with feedback that better characterizes the performance of the services. The GUI may enable a user to select KPIs and to adjust weights (e.g., importance) associated with the KPIs. The weight of a KPI may affect the influence a value of the KPI has on the calculation of an aggregate KPI value (e.g., score). The GUI may provide near real-time feedback concerning the effect the weights have on the aggregate KPI value by displaying the aggregate KPI value (e.g., score) and updating the aggregate KPI value as the user adjusts the weights.
Abstract:
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for extracting custom content from network packets. During operation, the system receives a stream of packets. The system then parses packets in the stream to determine a protocol for each packet. Next, the system applies a custom-content-extraction rule to each packet associated with a target protocol to obtain the extracted content. Then, the system stores the extracted content in events in a data store to facilitate subsequent queries involving the extracted content.
Abstract:
Technologies are disclosed for providing a common information model. Features include: detecting a scheduled time for a key performance indicator reflecting how a service provided by one or more entities is performing, entity definition information recording the association between the entities and its machine data, service definition information associating the entities that provide the service, and the KPI being defined by a search query, including a field identifier specified in a data model, the KPI derives a value from the machine data; performing the query in response to said detecting, including: associating values in the machine data having disparate field names in accordance with disparate schemas with the field identifier specified in the data model, and processing the associated values as semantically equivalent data instances. In doing so, values having the same semantic (or related semantics) can be used together despite being associated with disparate field names from disparate schemas.
Abstract:
The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a data intake and query system. The method includes populating each metric including a measure value, cataloging metadata in an in-memory metrics catalog, where the metadata is related to the metrics. The method further includes receiving a search query including search criteria, evaluating the search query by applying the search criteria to the metadata of the metrics catalog to obtain results that satisfy the search criteria, and causing display, on a display device, of the results or data indicative of the results.
Abstract:
Technologies are disclosed for providing a common information model. Features include: detecting a scheduled time for a key performance indicator reflecting how a service provided by one or more entities is performing, entity definition information recording the association between the entities and its machine data, service definition information associating the entities that provide the service, and the KPI being defined by a search query, including a field identifier specified in a data model, the KPI derives a value from the machine data; performing the query in response to said detecting, including: associating values in the machine data having disparate field names in accordance with disparate schemas with the field identifier specified in the data model, and processing the associated values as semantically equivalent data instances. In doing so, values having the same semantic (or related semantics) can be used together despite being associated with disparate field names from disparate schemas.
Abstract:
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for extracting custom content from network packets. During operation, the system receives a stream of packets. The system then parses packets in the stream to determine a protocol for each packet. Next, the system applies a custom-content-extraction rule to each packet associated with a target protocol to obtain the extracted content. Then, the system stores the extracted content in events in a data store to facilitate subsequent queries involving the extracted content.
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for providing an aggregate key performance indicator (KPI) that spans multiple services and for providing adjustment to KPI factors via a GUI that enables an aggregate KPI to be configured with feedback that better characterizes the performance of the services. The GUI may enable selection of KPIs and adjustment to weights (e.g., importance) associated with the KPIs. The weight of a KPI may affect the influence a value of the KPI has on the calculation of an aggregate KPI value (e.g., score). The GUI may provide near real-time feedback concerning the effect the weights have on the aggregate KPI value by displaying the aggregate KPI value (e.g., score) and updating the aggregate KPI value as the weights are adjusted.
Abstract:
The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a data intake and query system. The method includes providing a user interface enabling access to a metrics store, where the metrics store maintains metrics stored in an index, each metric represents a measured value taken of a computing device, and the index defines at least one dimension associated with each measured value. The method further includes receiving an input provided via the user interface to search metric data in the metrics store, causing display, via the user interface, of the metrics data.
Abstract:
A computer system exposes an interface for the specification of filter criteria. The filter criteria may identify control information of a service monitoring system (SMS) that defines entities in an IT environment monitored by the SMS. An association of identified entities with a monitored service may be made to direct the ongoing operation of the SMS toward the service.
Abstract:
One or more processing devices cause display of a graphical user interface (GUI) enabling a user to specify filter criteria for identifying one or more entity definitions, store the filter criteria in association with a service definition in response to user input, apply the filter criteria to identify one or more entity definitions satisfying the filter criteria, and associate the identified one or more entity definitions with the service definition. The service definition represents a service provided by one or more entities each having a representative entity definition comprising information to identify machine data corresponding to the entity.