Health Events

The Health Events Explorer page is a catalog of health events in Riverbed IQ Ops. A health event is a named health-related signal or condition the platform has ingested and can refer to in analysis. The stored record is mainly a short label for what 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. report, not a device An entity type representing network devices or hardware components deployed in the customer environment that are monitored for performance and anomalies. or a network object on its own.

You use this list to see which health event names exist, which sources produced them, and to apply custom properties so you can find and group them in search and in 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. and analytics context. The model is intentionally small. Each item is defined mainly by name and source context, not by the same rich structure you get for devices, interfaces An entity type representing network interfaces on devices that are monitored for performance metrics and anomalies., or a full application An entity type representing software applications deployed in the customer environment that are monitored for performance and anomalies. record. The table shows every health event name the product currently holds for your environment.

Navigate to the Explorer Health Events Page:
1. Click the Launchpad button ⁝⁝⁝.
2. Click IQ Ops > Management.
3. In the Management page, click the Hamburger Icon, then click Explorer - Health Events.

Explorer table

The main table can include the following columns. Optional columns and custom property columns use the same column chooser behavior as on other Explorer pages.

Name: The name of the health event. You can sort the table by this column (ascending is the default).
Custom Properties: Assigned custom property values for the health event, shown as tags in the table.
Data Source Name: The data sources that reported the health event.
Data Source Type: The types of those data sources, such as Riverbed AppResponse or Riverbed NetProfiler.

Details blade

When you select a health event, the Details blade shows the Properties tab with the name and any custom property values, and Set Custom Property. Unlike applications and activities, there is no second tab of related entities Things deployed in the customer environment that are needed to run the business, such as applications, devices, interfaces, and locations. for health events in this blade.

Searching, filters, and facets

Use the text search area and the filter panel to narrow the list. You can search the health event name, custom properties, and data sources from the same controls you use to filter the table.

Open the Facets Chooser to add or remove facets such as name and custom property value groupings, similar to other Explorers. Not every facet is shown by default.

Note: The filter selections you apply appear under the search area. The selected filter facets and your column choices are specific to the Explorer. They are stored with your Explorer preferences.

Custom properties and tagging

You can set custom properties for selected health events with the Set Custom Property action, in line with the other custom property enabled Explorer types.