1. System Insight Overview

System Insight provides a standardized means to visualize complex processing and can be used with visualization and analytics tools which already exist, e g InfluxDB and Grafana.

A probe is a point in  or a workflow where metrics are created by sampling or aggregating events. Using internal probes, data flow probes and customized probes, System Insight generates metrics from  with searchable tags. The metrics are then sent to the System Insight service, from which they are stored in a time-series database, based on the open-source InfluxDB project. These metrics can then be displayed in a web-based dashboard builder, based on the open-source Grafana project, which shows real-time as well as historic metrics. You can customize the dashboards as required, based on the stored data.

System Insight Overview

You can use this functionality to visualize , the metrics for data flow through  and the metrics for assets managed by .

System Insight can collect metrics from external probes in order to visualize them, and can also forward metrics to an external analytics or visualization tool, using MZ workflows. You can create custom metrics using the System Insight forwarding agent in a workflow. The agent sends metrics samples from the workflow to the System Insight service for visualization. Equally, you can use the System Insight collection agent to collect data from the system insight service that is running, and send the data to any protocol supported in .

System Insight is an akka-based service which runs on one or several SCs. For further information on Akka clusters, see 1.7 Akka Cluster in the System Administrator's Guide.