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Frequently asked questions

Data collection rates

What is the time granularity AKA data collection rate of Moogsoft Cloud data?

The integrations where Moogsoft Cloud actively collects data, the collection rates are:

For integrations that push data to Moogsoft Cloud, the data source can push data as frequently as needed. In most cases you can send data every minute. Sending data at higher rates, such as every second, is generally not recommended.

Collector compression and encryption

Does the collector compress and encrypt the data that it sends to Moogsoft Cloud?

Yes. The collector compresses data using gzip and sends all data over HTTPS.

Enriching data after ingestion

Can I enrich my raw data with additional information after ingestion?

Yes. You can define event workflows that enrich and process your data immediately after ingestion. Enrichment is strongly recommended and has the following benefits:

  • You can fine-tune how Moogsoft Cloud clusters your alerts into incidents.

  • You can make your alerts more informative and readable.

  • You can normalize events that come from different sources and have different formats.

Time series metrics — features and capabilities

What metric features does Moogsoft Cloud have that makes it different from other products?

Moogsoft Cloud includes the following metric features:

  • Metrics API

    You can send metrics from all your monitoring services to one endpoint. The metric schema is highly flexible, with a few required fields, several more optional fields, and a tags field for custom information.

  • Collectors

    Collectors are lightweight, easy-to-install agents that collect time series metrics and events on Linux, MacOS, and Windows servers and send the data to Moogsoft Cloud.

  • Predefined anomaly detection

    Moogsoft Cloud detects anomalies by default and without configuration. You don't need to define thresholds or other parameters.

  • Customizable anomaly detection for individual metrics

    You can customize how Moogsoft Cloud detects anomalies for individual metrics with special characteristics. For example, you might want to fine-tune the anomaly-detection logic for metrics with very large or very small data ranges.

Metric and event updates

Does Moogsoft Cloud update metrics and events after ingestion?

Moogsoft Cloud ingests raw events and events generated from metric anomalies. You can enrich and normalize events at ingestion using event workflows. For example, you can enrich events with information such as the apps or services that generated specific events. You can also process events from different sources so that all your event fields are formatted consistently.

Once your workflows finish processing events, Moogsoft Cloud deduplicates the events into alerts. When it adds a new event to an alert, Moogsoft Cloud it updates the alert with the latest information from the event. Thus you can think of events as hard-coded snapshots of an issue, while alerts get updated with each new event.

Alert and incident updates

Does Moogsoft Cloud update alerts or incidents automatically?

Moogsoft Cloud updates alerts and incidents as follows:

  • Sets an alert to Closed from any state after 72 hours.

  • Sets an alert to Closed 30 minutes after it is resolved.

  • Sets an incident to Closed 60 minutes after all alerts in that incident are closed.

  • Sets incidents from any state to Closed after 7 days.

You can change the default settings using Auto Close.

Browser support

Moogsoft Cloud supports the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

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