# Glossary * **Agent:** The set of code that runs on a customer's cloud to collect metric data. These are open-source and only collect a metric value, timestamp and additional metadata (like groupings or items to filter on) * **Dataset:** Represents either a tracked database table or a virtual representation of joined tables (like a view) and data collected from streaming agents (like a schema representing the output format of a Prediction API) * **Indicator:** A metric usually representing data health. In Lariat, these are plotted on a time-series so have to have a time dimension associated with it. Indicators can etiher be set up during configuration through a quickstart menu or custom-built with SQL. In either case, there is a SQL representation that backs an Indicator * **Event:** This is generally a streaming event. Examples of this include, ObjectCreated events that write a file to S3, lambda triggers or Kafka writes. * **Ingest:** Represents the first phase of data ingress into a data organization * **Integration:** Refers to an agent integration or an output integration such as sending alert data to PagerDuty, Slack or email or metric data to Datadog, Grafana or Tableau --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.lariatdata.com/overview/glossary.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.