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’s type.
• Labels: The metric’s labels.
• Description: A description of the metric.

Click the three vertical dots menu in the metric’s row, or hover over the metric’s row, 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 Usage Analyzer: Opens the Telemetry Usage Analyzer with this metric.
• Open in Metrics Explorer: Opens the Metrics Explorer with a query using this metric.
• Copy: Copies the metric’s name to the clipboard.

See common panel elements for an explanation of the other available tools.

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. Click Metrics that start with (anything). This is the default filter, and it displays all metrics.

2. Type a prefix, or select one or more prefixes from the list. Each item in the list displays the number of metrics that have that prefix. For example, activity (8) means there are eight metrics which use that prefix.

   To select only one item in the list and clear any other selections, hover the cursor over one of the list items and click Only.

3. To confirm your selection, click outside the list.

Your catalog updates to display the selected metrics.

Edit the metric description

The Description field provides more information about a metric to help users understand what the metric is for and how it’s used.

To add or change a description:

1. Click the metric’s row in the catalog to open the Overview tab in the metric’s panel.
2. In the Description field, click Edit.
3. In the box, enter a new or edit the existing description.
4. Click Save when finished, or Cancel to keep the existing value.

AI-generated descriptions

Observability Platform suggests AI-generated metric descriptions on metrics that lack authored descriptions. These suggestions are designated as Generated by AI.

To accept an AI-generated description, click Accept. To edit the generated description, click Edit.

View a preview visualization of the metric

The panel for each metric in the catalog includes a time series chart that visualizes the metric over a recent time span, and a time range selector to select or pin a time span.

Click the three vertical dots menu in the chart to access additional tools:

• Open in Metrics Explorer: Opens the Metrics Explorer with a query using this metric.
• Copy as image: Copies an image of the chart’s current view to your clipboard.
• Export as PNG: Downloads the chart’s current view as a PNG image.
• Add to dashboard: Opens the Add panel to dashboard dialog.
• Analyze anomaly (DDx): Opens the Differential Diagnosis tool with a query using this metric.

View a metric’s labels

Click the View labels button to open the Labels tab of the metric’s panel. The table in this tab provides the following information about your metric’s labels:

• Label: The label name associated with the metric. To copy the label name, hover the cursor over the label’s row and click the copy icon.

• 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.

  The table truncates long lists of values, and the table row indicates this by displaying the number of hidden values. To view all values, click Show all.