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For further information on System Insight, see System Insight.
Configuration
To create a new System Insight profile configuration, click the button in the upper left part of the Desktop window, and then select System Insight from the menu.
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The System Insight profile consists of two tabs: Filters and Detected Metrics.
Filters Tab
The Filters tab is displayed by default.
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| Profile Description | Name the profile. |
| Retention Policy | Select the retention policy that you want to apply to the profile from the drop-down list. If you have installed System Insight with InfluxDB and Grafana, using the scripts provided, as described in 2.1 Installing System Insight using Scripts, the retention policies of one week, six months or one year are available for selection, and the default is one_week. If you select the retention policy (Database Default), the default retention policy of the database that you are using for System Insight applies. If the property |
| System Insight Filter Enabled | Select this check box to set the profile to enabled status so that you can use the filters in the profile. If a profile is not set to enabled, you cannot use the filters it contains to produce the required statistics. |
To Create a Filter
To create a Filter in the Filters tab, take the following steps:
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The fields in the Add Filter Settings are free text, but there are specific naming conventions for the metrics that you add. For guidance on how to determine a filter, see the section below, Determining a Filter.
Determining a Filter
You have two sources that can aid you to determine filters:
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If you want everything detected for host.storage.iostats to be sent to the system insight service: You use regular expression for the metric name: host\.storage\.iostats and leave the Tags empty.  You can use the Detected Metrics tab to help you determine the filter:
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Detected Metrics Tab
In the Detected Metrics tab, the possible metrics, tags and tag values detected for your setup since you started the system insight service are displayed to help you create a filter that you can then add to the filters in the Filters tab. This tab is not populated with data until you have started the system insight service.
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The selection that you make in the Metric names pane in the tree structure check boxes, determines the tags that you can set. The tags that you can set are displayed in the Tag Name column and you can select the corresponding tag value(s) available in the Tag Value column. The more selections you make, it is normally the case that the fewer tags are available, as it is the tags that the selected metrics have in common that you can then filter on.
To Determine a Metric for a Filter
To display the possible tags and tag values you can apply to create a filter, take the following steps:
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