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Explore

🔎Find it: FusionReactor > Explore

Explore allows you to query and analyse all metrics, logs and traces ingested to your cloud account. Create new data views and filter data in any way you require.

Warning

While with Explore you can technically search for any amount of data within your cloud account, there are strict execution times on queries that will restrict performance heavy queries.

Datasource selection

Within Explore there are three datasource configures. They are accessed using the dropdown located to the left of the screen. The default datasource is Metrics.

  • Metrics will contain any metric sent from a FusionReactor agent, plus some additional metrics created within our ingest engine.
  • Traces will contain any slow or error transactions sent from a FusionReactor agent, requests viewed in the recent or running tabs of the server view will not appear here as they are not ingested.
  • Logs will contain any logs sent to FusionReactor, either from a FusionReactor agent or log shipper.

Note

Going forward we will allow ingest for traces and metrics from a non FusionReactor agents, however at this time this feature is unavailable.

Metric queries

🔎Find it: FusionReactor > Explore > Metrics

To explore metrics, use the Metric browser.

Within the Metric browser you can:

  • Select one or more metrics to view.

  • Filter metrics by any label, such as instance, group or application.

  • Execute functions such as Sum, Count, or Avg on metrics.

  • Compare metrics by using mathematical functions.

  • Combine multiple queries in a single view.

  • View data as various chart types, or as raw data in a table.

The metrics browser will create data views for you using Promql.

Using Promql directly you can create powerful and complex queries to get the most out of your FusionReactor data.

Trace queries

🔎Find it: FusionReactor > Explore > Traces > Search

To explore traces we advise using the Search feature.

Within search, you can specify:

Type Description
Service Name Instance from which the trace originates.
Span Name The URL or action of a transaction.
Tag A label applied to a trace, for example txnId or status.code. A full list of tags can be searched within the input field.
Min Duration The minimum duration of a transaction.
Max Duration The maximum duration of a transaction.
Limit How many results you wish to view.

You can view the trace information by clicking on the trace ID, which will open a window on the right of the screen.

Log queries

🔎Find it: FusionReactor > Explore > Logs

To explore logs, use the Logs browser.

The Logs browser allows you to filter and view any ingested logs.

The log browser lets you:

  • Filter logs by labels like job, filename or instance.

  • Perform calculations like Sum, Count, or Avg to extract metrics from logs.

  • Combine multiple queries in one view.

  • Display data as charts or raw tables.

The browser automatically builds log queries and generates LogQL for you.

You can also use Explore to run custom LogQL queries.

Info

LogQL, developed by Grafana Labs, is a query language for filtering, searching, and generating metrics from log data.

LogQL examples

Search for logs with a specific job

Example

{job="job1"}

Search for specific filename

Example

{filename=~"request"}

Search for logs with a job using wildcard

Example

{job=~"job.*"}

Search for any stdout or stderr logs for any jobs matching the wildcard

Example

{job=~"job.*",filename=~"std.*"}

Query for the volume of jobs per job and instance

Example

sum(count_over_time({job=~".+"}[5m])) by (job,instance)

Query for the top IP addresses triggering requests in FusionReactor

Example

topk(10,sum by (clientAddress)(rate({filename="request"} | logfmt | line_format "{{.clientAddress}}" | __error__="" [1m])))

Query nginx for the top IP address hitting the load balancer

Example

topk(10,sum by (remote_address)(rate({filename="/opt/access.log"} | logfmt | line_format "{{.remote_address}}" | __error__="" [1m])))

Search all logs for the text exception

Example

{ job=~".+"} |= "Exception"

Process the request log for top hit page URLs

Example

sum by (url)(rate({filename="request"} | logfmt | line_format "{{.url}}" | __error__="" [10s]))

Graph the number of error or exception error lines

Example

sum by (job) (count_over_time({job=~"store-.*"} |= "error" != "exception" [5m]))

Process the avg CPU time per page URL

Example

topk(10, sum by (url)(avg_over_time({ filename="request"} | logfmt | __error__="" | unwrap cpuTime[5m])))

Graph previous crashes caused by OutOfMemory errors

Example

sum by (job) (count_over_time({job=~".+"} |= "java.lang.OutOfMemory" [1m]))

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