🤓Glossary

Terminology repeatedlly used across our docs and platform

• 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