Algology (Visualisation) User Guide
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Algology inside Algoreus equips you with the capability to query, visualize, alert, and delve deep into your metrics, logs, and traces, regardless of where they are stored. Algology offers you the necessary tools to transform your time-series database (TSDB) data into insightful graphs and visualizations. The node framework also facilitates the integration of other data sources such as NoSQL/SQL databases, issue-tracking systems like Jira or ServiceNow, and CI/CD tools like GitLab.
The following sections present an overview of Algology features and links to product documentation to enhance your understanding.
Engage with your data through ad-hoc queries and dynamic drilldowns. Compare different time ranges, queries, and data sources side by side using the split view feature. Check the Explore section for additional information.
If you're utilizing Algology's Alerting feature, you can configure alerts to be sent through various notifiers like PagerDuty, SMS, Email, VictorOps, OpsGenie, or Slack.
Alert hooks give you the flexibility to code custom notifiers if you prefer alternative communication channels. You can define visual alert rules for your most important metrics.
You can enrich graphs with detailed events from different data sources. Hovering over these events reveals the full event metadata and tags.
This feature, displayed as a graph marker in Algology, is instrumental for correlating data during troubleshooting. Annotations can be manually created by right-clicking on a graph and entering some text, or they can be retrieved from any data source. The Annotations section provides more details.
Template variables allow you to construct versatile dashboards that can be reused for numerous different use cases. Template variables eliminate the need for hard-coded values, meaning the same dashboard can be used for both a production server and a test server, for instance.
Templates facilitate detailed data exploration. These dashboards can be shared across your organization's teams, or if you develop a valuable dashboard template for a widely used data source, you can contribute it to the community for customization and usage.
In Algology, you can map users to teams. If your organization has its own authentication system, Algology allows you to map the teams in your internal systems to teams in Algology. This enables automatic dashboard access for team members.
Provisioning Power users in need of many dashboards may automate setup via scripting. Anything in Algology can be scripted.
When organizations use one Algology instance for multiple teams, the need to maintain separation while sharing dashboards often arises. You can establish a team of users, then set permissions on folders, dashboards, and even down to the data source level if you're using Algology.