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To view all metrics in your Chronosphere Observability Platform tenant, find specific metrics, and add or view details about them, use the Metrics Catalog. The Metrics Catalog is part of Observability Platform’s System Library, a centralized reference for telemetry data. To access the Metrics Catalog, in the navigation menu, click  System Library > Metrics Catalog.

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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’s 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.
The Metrics Catalog doesn’t include derived attributes. To view all derived attributes, see the Derived tab of the Attributes Catalog.

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Filter the catalog

Use the Search metrics field 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.
The catalog updates to display the selected metrics.

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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.

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AI-generated descriptions

This feature isn’t available to all Chronosphere Observability Platform users and might not be visible in your app. For information about enabling this feature in your environment, contact Chronosphere Support.
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.

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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 values associated with the label. 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.

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View a metric’s details

Each metric in the Metrics Catalog has a Metric details panel. To view a metric’s details panel, click its name in the Metric column of the Metrics Catalog. You can also click the three vertical dots icon on the attribute’s row, and then click View details. A metric’s details panel contains two tabs:
  • Overview: The attribute’s metadata and usage details. The Overview tab’s Metadata section lists the metric’s type, its labels count, its utility score, and its description. The Preview section displays a preview visualization of the metric. The Top usage (last 30 days) section lists the Top 3 dashboard queries and Explorer queries that use the derived attribute, and the attribute’s Top users. Usage is sorted by execution counts.
  • Labels: A table of all of the metric’s associated labels, including each label’s cardinality (number of unique values) and a list of its values.
The panel also includes a link to Open in Usage Analyzer, which opens the Telemetry Usage Analyzer for the metric.

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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.