Metrics Catalog

Chronosphere Observability Platform’s Metrics Explorer helps you search for existing metrics. To view all metrics in your tenant, find specific metrics, and add or view details about them, use the Metrics Catalog.

To access the Metrics Catalog, in the navigation menu, click Explorers > Metrics Catalog.

Catalog information

Metrics in the catalog include the following information:

• Metric name: The metric’s name.
• Type: The metric type.
• Description: A user-defined description of the metric.
• Labels: The metric’s labels.

Click the three vertical dots menu and select an option to perform one of the following tasks:

• View details: Opens a drawer with the metric Type, Description, and a time series graph showing this metric’s activity over the selected time period. Use the three dots menu on the graph to perform actions similar to panel options.
• Open in Metrics Explorer: Opens the Metrics Explorer with a query using this metric. Also available while viewing a metric’s labels.
• Open in Usage Analyzer: Opens the Telemetry Usage Analyzer with this metric.

Filter the catalog

Use the Search metrics box to find a metric by name. The list updates as you enter text into the search field.

You can filter the list by prefix:

1. Next to the search box, click Metrics that start with (anything). This is the default, and searches all metrics.
2. Type a prefix, or select one or more prefixes from the list. Each item in the list shows the number of metrics that have that prefix. For example: activity (8) means there are eight metrics using that prefix.
3. Click outside the list.

Your catalog updates to display the selected metrics.

Edit the metric description

In the Description field, add more information to a metric to help users understand what this metric is for and how it’s used. By default, metrics have no description.

To add or change a description:

1. In the description field in the metric’s row, click the pencil icon.
2. In the box, enter a new or edit the existing description.
3. Click Save when finished, or Cancel to return to the existing value.

View a metric’s labels

Click the View labels button to open a drawer listing the following information about your metric’s labels:

• Label: A label associated with the metric.
• Cardinality: The number of unique values associated with the label.
• Values: The label values. Click Show all to expand the list to display additional values, if any. Click a label value to filter the results to the label and value pair.