Metric Browser

This page describes how the Metric Browser provides a metrics-oriented view of the monitored environment for a selected time period.

In the Metric Browser, you can see metrics by nodes, business transactions, the overall application, and more. You can also compare two or more metrics and view metrics relative to a baseline. Use this tool when you want to drill into and analyze the details for a specific metric.

View Metric Browser

The metric tree includes metric groups. You can view all the metrics specific to a group when you navigate through the metric groups and the child groups. When you double-click a metric, you can view the metrics details on the right pane.

You can view the Metric Browser on the left pane for each of the following components:

Component	Navigation	Description
Applications	Home > Applications ><Select an application> >Details > Metric Browser	This Metric Browser includes the metric tree that are specific to the selected application.
User Experience	Home > User Experience > <select name> > Details>Metric Browser You can select the name for the required applications under Browser Apps, Mobile Apps, or the API key under API Monitoring.	This Metric Browser includes the metric tree that are specific to the selected application or API.
Database Visibility	Home > Databases > Metric Browser	This Metric Browser includes the metric tree for all the databases. Within the required metric group, you can view the database metrics that are collected using the Database Agent. For more information about the metrics that are displayed, see Database Monitoring Metrics.
Server Visibility	Home > Servers> Metric Browser	This Metric Browser includes the metric tree for all the servers. Within the required metric group, you can view the server metrics that are collected using the Machine Agent. For more information about the metrics that are collected, see Monitor Servers Using Server Visibility. In this browser, you can search for any specific metric group within the first four levels of the metric tree. You require minimum three strings to initiate a search. When you specify the string in the Search field and click Search, you can view the total number of matches found with the navigation arrows to move to previous or next match in the sequence.
Analytics	Home > Analytics> Metrics> <Select a metric>> Metric Browser	This Metric Browser includes the metric tree for the events. Within the required metric group, you can view the event metrics that are collected using transaction, browser, and mobile events. For more information, see Analytics.

Get Started with Metric Browser

Click Metric Browser.
Expand a metric group and double-click an option for that metric to display in the graph. Add multiple metrics in the same manner to compare them.
Mark the checkbox for the type of data you want to see for each metric.
Select Filters () and choose how you want to view data:
- Show Tiers / Nodes with performance data to show entities and metrics for live entities over the specified time range.
- Show Tiers / Nodes with no performance data to show metrics/entities of entities that are not alive over the specified time range.
- Select both checkboxes to show metrics and entities without checking the liveness of entities.
Select Plot Points to enable the plot points on the graph line.
Select a Scale option to adapt the scale of the y-axis unit according to the values in the graph.

To remove a single metric from the graph, click X or click Clear at the top of the metric browser to remove all metrics.

Metric Data Point Details

For most types of metrics in the browser, you can click any of the points in the graph to view more information about the metric observed at that point in time. The information shown includes the metric identifier, date and time of the observation and any of the following values relevant to the metric:

Obs—The observed average of all data points seen for that interval. For the Percentile Metric for the App Agent for Java, this is the percentile value. For a cluster or a time rollup, this represents the weighted average across nodes or over time.
Min—The minimum data point value for that interval.
Max—The maximum data point value for that interval.
Sum—The sum of all data point values for that interval. For the Percentile Metric for the App Agent for Java, this is the result of the percentile value multiplied by the Count.
Count—The number of observations aggregated in that one point. For example, a count of five indicates that there were five one-minute data points aggregated into one point.
Base—The baseline data for the metric. See Viewing Metrics Relative to Baselines.

By selecting the checkbox that corresponds to the metric information at the bottom of the graph, such as Min, Max, Count, or Sum, you can graph that information for the metric over the time range shown in the browser. Checkboxes for only the types of information relevant to the metric can be selected.

For node-level metrics only, min and max values are available for any count- or sum-based metrics and for when the metric is rolled up to hourly or daily data points. Min and max values are not visible for tier- and application-level metrics. Count- and sum-based metrics include errors per minute, calls per minute, and so on.

Analyze Performance for a Time Range

Once you identify a time frame of interest in the metric browser, you may want to see snapshots in that time range. To analyze snapshots during a time range in the browser, click and hold the start of the time range in the graph and drag to the end of the time range. Release to view the Time Range pane.

If you do not see a metric in the browser, you can add certain metrics by editing node properties. See App Agent Node Properties.

View Metrics Relative to Baselines

You can see how data in the Metric Browser compare to baseline values. Monitoring baseline deviation exposes performance metrics that might be violating your Service Level Agreements (SLAs). See Dynamic Baselines.

To display baseline patterns, select the baseline option for the metric in the view options for the metric.

Export Metric Data

You can export metric data that is currently displayed to a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

Exported data includes all the data displayed, even if there is a time range selected. To export data only for a specific time range, first set a global time range and then export.

To export all data:

Select Actions > Export Data.
In the popup, you can either copy the data to your clipboard or click Export Data to download the data as a CSV file.

To export data for an individual metric in the graph, click Download at the bottom of the graph.