Metric Collection

Specify the metrics A measurement or data point that is monitored and analyzed to detect anomalies and generate incidents. to be collected for consideration by the runbook An automated workflow that executes a series of steps or tasks in response to a triggered event, such as the detection of anomalous behavior generating an incident, a lifecycle event, or a manually executed runbook. to investigate the incident A collection of one or more related triggers. Relationships that cause triggers to be combined into incidents include application, location, operating system, or a trigger by itself..

Collect Metrics: Toggle this to specify which metrics to collect, and how that metric data will be formatted, for what time interval.

Output Data Format: Choose Summarized or Time Series.

Collect Data For Last: Specify a time interval over which to acquire metric data.

On the Data Store node, when the selected data type is time-aware, the Runbook Editor shows an Interval section with Collect Data Based on instead of relying only on a single look-back in the metrics area. Use that section to choose a preset look-back, explicit start and end times from variables, or an anchor time plus duration. See Interval in the Data Store topic.