Ingestion

The Ingestion app allows you to explicitly review and manage data point ingestion into ITRS Analytics.

All data points require a configuration defining the order of their dimensions. Dimensions are the ordered names and values within a data point that uniquely identify the data point’s entity. As of Platform 2.0.0, all data points require a configuration defining the order of their dimensions. Dimensions are the ordered names and values within a data point that uniquely identify the data point’s entity.

ITRS Analytics ships with known dimensions already configured – all Geneos and internal data (Kubernetes) are configured out-of-the-box.

Monitoring Copied

Ingestion Throughput Copied

This section displays the totals and time-series charts for the following:

• Ingested data points — all processed and stored data points.
• Received data points — all data points sent to the system.
• Dropped data points — data points that are dropped due to validation or missing containment rules.
• Filtered data points — data points filtered in one of the active filters.

Data Volumes Copied

This section shows the size and usage of the volumes in a full Obcerv cluster, including apps. Volumes exceeding 75% capacity are flagged with a warning, and those at or above 90% capacity are flagged as critical.

Services Copied

This section displays a table for all the containers running in the Obcerv install, including apps.

If a container has restarts, the row shows in light red. When you click on a container row, it shows a drawer displaying the CPU and memory time-series charts, container details, and a “Last Status” table if there are restarts.

You can also filter containers by enabling the Hide LinkerD or Hide Non-Running options.

Consumer Groups Copied

This section periodically gathers long-term increasing alerts on consumer groups. You can also filter data by enabling the Hide Unknown Consumers or Hide Zero lag options.

Configuration Copied

Dropped data points Copied

Note

Only users with admin privileges can configure dimensions.

Any unknown dimension is listed in the Dropped Entities tab. These data points are not processed by the Platform.

If you wish to see this data, you must configure the order of dimensions.

To configure the order of unknown dimension keys, click the Order icon in the right-most column. This opens the Order dimension keys dialog, where you can drag the keys into the desired order.

Note

To see a full JSON example of the data point, click Sample.

The dimensions are ordered by hierarchy groups so that you can configure these at the same time. For example, if the following dimensions are listed:

[a][b]
[a][b][c]
[a][b][c][d]

Then configuring the order of [a][b] will also allow you to configure the other dimensions with common keys. It is important that hierarchies are configured following a consistent key order.

Once you have configured one or more dimension keys, the checkbox for the item will be selected in the list. To save the changes, click Configure.

After saving your changes, the configured dimensions are moved from the Dropped Entities tab to the Known Entities tab.

Known entities Copied

There are two sections for resolved dimensions: Configured and Preconfigured (Read only).

Configured Copied

These are the dimensions that previously appeared in the Dropped Entities tab. If the items have pending status, it means that they have been configured but no new data has arrived matching these dimensions. Non-pending items are fully configured and working as expected.

To remove configured dimensions, select the checkbox for the dimension keys, and then click the Remove button.

Note

Removing dimensions from the data points does not automatically populate them in the Dropped Entities tab. They will only appear if new data is published that uses those exact dimensions, which may be unlikely to happen.

Preconfigured (Read only) Copied

The Preconfigured (Read only) tab shows the preconfigured dimensions for known dimension keys. This information is provided for reference only.

Filtering Copied

Filters allow you to exclude certain data points based on some matching rules.

1. From the Filtering tab, click the Add button to create a new filter.
2. Input an expression or select the filters.
3. Once the value is set, select one or more options in the Datapoint drop-down list to apply the filter to.
4. Click Save.

To modify or delete a filter, select the checkbox for the filter, and then click Edit or Remove.

Geneos filters Copied

You can use multiple Geneos filters to manage data points from Geneos that are ingested into ITRS Analytics.

To add your desired Geneos filters, go to the Geneos Filter tab and click Add Filter. You can also reorder, modify, and delete filters in this tab.

All filters added become part of your Geneos Filter set. You can only enable or disable an entire filter set, not a single Geneos filter.

• If the filter set is enabled, at least one filter must explicitly include a data point for that data point to be retained. If no filter includes it, it will be excluded.
• If the filter set is disabled, no data points will be excluded.

Note

The filter set is designed to prioritize exclusion.

Filters are applied in the following order to determine which data points are retained or excluded:

• Each filter is analyzed individually, considering both its “include” and “exclude” selectors. Within a single filter, the “exclude” selector always takes precedence over the “include” selector. The order of these selectors does not matter.
• If a filter neither includes nor excludes a data point, it has no impact on the overall results.
• If a filter explicitly includes or excludes a data point, it overrides any previous filter’s results for that data point.
• If no filter specifically selects a data point, the data point is excluded.

Data retention policy Copied

This is a read-only display of data retention policies, including metric policies and non-metric policies, that are being used in the Platform.