Metric categories đź”—
These are the available categories for metrics in Observability Cloud:
Category type |
Description |
|---|---|
0 |
No information about the category type of the metric.
Note: Category type information for metrics is only available after 03/16/2023. Any metrics created before that date has category type
0. |
1 |
Host |
2 |
Container |
3 |
Custom
Metrics reported to Observability Cloud outside of those reported by default, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics might result in increased data ingest costs.
|
4 |
Hi-resolution |
5 |
Internal |
6 |
Tracing metrics |
7 |
Bundled
In host-based subscription plans, additional metrics sent through Infrastructure Monitoring public cloud integrations that are not attributed to specific hosts or containers.
|
8 |
APM hosts |
9 |
APM container |
10 |
APM identity |
11 |
APM bundled metrics |
12 |
APM Troubleshooting MetricSets
This category is not part of the report.
|
13 |
APM Monitoring MetricSets
This category is not part of the report.
|
14 |
Infrastructure Monitoring function |
15 |
APM function |
16 |
RUM Troubleshooting MetricSets
This category is not part of the report.
|
17 |
RUM Monitoring MetricSets |
18 |
Network Explorer metrics |
19 |
Runtime metrics |
20 |
Synthetics metrics |
Note
In subscription plans based on metric time series (MTS), all metrics are categorized as custom metrics and billed accordingly.
Identify and track the category of a metric đź”—
In host-based plans, the category of a metric might impact billing.
To keep track of the type of metrics you’re ingesting, Observability Cloud provides you with different tools and reports:
Custom metric report. It shows the information on MTS associated with data points sent from hosts or containers, as well as information related to custom, high-resolution, and bundled MTS, for a specified date.
Metric Pipeline Management’s usage report. It gives a detailed breakdown of your MTS creation and usage.
Track specific org metrics with custom metric information. See more in View organization metrics for Splunk Observability Cloud.
Use Signalflow to look for a metric’s category 🔗
You can use SignalFlow to query for the sf_mtsCategoryType dimension, which indicates the metric category.
For example, to look for the top 10 custom metrics you’re ingesting, use the following query with the * character:
A = data('*', filter=filter('sf_mtsCategoryType', '3')).count(by="sf_metric").top(10).publish(label='A')
To only look at specific metrics, use their specific metric name.
Learn more in SignalFlow and analytics.