SignalFX

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Summary

SignalFX is a monitoring and analytics platform that allows customers to analyze, visualize, automate, and alert on metrics data. You can use SignalFX to drive insights into values such as:

• SLOs

Setup

In order to connect Cortex to your SignalFX instance, you’ll need to create a SignalFX Access Token, and add it under Settings → SignalFX.

Service Registration

Service Descriptor

You can create and manage SLOs by listing relevant SLIs through queries, along with a threshold and a comparator. Cortex will pull data from SignalFX, and roll up the query with a specified rollup function.

x-cortex-slos:
  signalfx:
    - query: sf_metric:"jvm.memory.max" AND area:"nonheap"
      rollup: AVERAGE
      target: 5120000
      lookback: P1Y
      operation: "<="

Field	Description
query	Elasticsearch query for your metric. Filter by metric with sf_metric and add additional dimensions to narrow the search. Queries resulting in multiple datasets will be rolled up according to rollup
rollup	SUM / AVERAGE
target	Target number for SLO.
lookback	ISO-8601 duration (P[n]Y[n]M[n]DT[n]H[n]M[n]S).
operation	> / < / = / <=, >=