Core concepts

This page provides an introduction to the core concepts underlying monitoring views.

• Metric: Resources emit metrics, or logs. Monitors are created on top of these metrics to set a user’s standards of performance on a given resource.
• Resource: A “thing” in Foundry that can be monitored, including datasets, agents, schedules, objects, and link types.
• Scope: A scope is the boundary around the set of resources on which your thresholds are set. A resource can be monitored on different scope types:
  • Single: The monitor is only applied to that specific resource.
  • Folder: The monitor is only applied to resources of the specified type in the scoped folder, not including subfolders.
  • Project: The monitor is applied to any resources of the specified type in the project or multiple projects.
• Monitoring rule: A threshold or set of thresholds put on the metrics of a resource within a given scope and contain:
  • Resource type
  • Metric threshold tolerances
  • Severity level assignment
• Monitoring view: A collection of monitoring rules that a group of subscribers care about.
• Subscriber: A user subscribed to a monitoring view.
• Alerts: Notifications that can have low, medium, or high assignments and are sent to subscribers.