Activities

The Activities Explorer page lists application activities that Riverbed IQ Ops has ingested. An activity is a named unit of work under a parent application An entity type representing software applications deployed in the customer environment that are monitored for performance and anomalies., such as a specific operation, business flow, or other fine-grained behavior your data sources A product in your network that forwards data to the system. This data can be streaming data used to detect anomalies and generate incidents, or data that can be fetched on demand when runbooks are executed. attribute to that app. Activities matter when you need to reason about performance or user experience at a level below the whole application, and when incidents 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. or analysis refer to a particular activity rather than to the app alone. Every row is tied to exactly one parent application. On this page you can search, filter, and apply custom properties to the activity type so the same activity names stay aligned with what you use in the rest of the product.

1. Navigate to the Explorer Activities Page:

   1. Click the Launchpad button ⁝⁝⁝.

   2. Click IQ Ops > Management.

   3. In the Management page, click the Hamburger Icon, then click Explorer - Activities.

Explorer table

The main table can include the following columns for each activity. Optional columns and custom property columns follow the same patterns as on other Explorer pages, including the column chooser in the upper right of the table.

• Name: The name of the activity. You can sort the table by this column (ascending is the default).

• Application: The parent application for the activity.

• Custom Properties: Assigned custom property values for the activity, shown as tags in the table.

• Data Source Name: The data sources that reported the activity.

• Data Source Type: The types of those data sources, such as Riverbed AppResponse or Riverbed NetProfiler.

Details blade and relationship to applications

When you select an activity, the Properties tab of the Details blade shows the activity name, custom properties, and Set Custom Property.

A second tab, Application, lists the parent application An entity type representing software applications deployed in the customer environment that are monitored for performance and anomalies. (name and type) for the selected activity, similar to how the Devices and Interfaces pages expose related entities on a second tab. From the Applications Explorer, the Details blade for a selected application includes a second Activities tab with the activities for that application.

Searching, filters, and facets

Use the text search field and the filter panel to narrow the list. You can search the activity name, the parent application, data sources, and custom properties from the same controls you use to filter the table.

Filters and facets follow the same pattern as on the Applications Explorer. Open the Facets Chooser from the Filters menu to add or remove facets, including the name, application name, and custom property value facets. Not every facet is shown by default.

Custom properties and tagging

You can set custom properties for selected activities with the Set Custom Property action, using the same workflow as on other custom property enabled Explorer types.