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In Beeks Analytics, VMX-Capture is the layer responsible for data capture and decoding. | |
A Probe is an ultra-fast, lightweight capture mechanism within VMX-Capture which decodes and/or analyses traffic, delivering business objects and statistics to one or more Agent Points configured in Beeks Analytics. | |
A Packet Capture probe captures packets and writes them to disk to provide a store of the captured data, which users can then consult if needed for diagnostics or evidence. | |
A Visibility Point is a location in an application or network from which we want to capture data. | |
A Pre-aggregated stat is a set of data that has been aggregated in VMX-Capture and the result sent to VMX-Analysis. | |
In data analysis, an Anomaly is some data that differs from the expected pattern of data. The most common type of anomaly is a market data gap. | |
In Beeks Analytics, VMX-Analysis is the layer that analyses the data from VMX-Capture to produce reports and views, and passes aggregated data and individual business items to VMX-Explorer for visualisation. | |
An Agent Point is an end point in VMX-Analysis, responsible for translating business data events from probes, and converting and mapping them to the Attributes for the relevant Flow. | |
An Interval is a set of information about a time period between two Agent Events. | |
An Attribute is a formal container for a type of data. Attributes are populated by Agents. | |
A Flow is the journey of a business object type, such as an order or trade, through the monitored system. | |
An Item represents all the Agent Events that relate to a single business object. | |
Correlation is the act of grouping together all Agent Events for a given business object so that VMX-Analysis can track it as it moves through the network and/or the application. | |
An Association represents a group of related Items. Whereas Correlation concerns grouping multiple Agent Events into a single Item (aka Business Object), Association groups multiple related Items together. | |
An Aggregator defines how data is “sliced and diced“ to produce statistics - or stats - that are then displayed in the dashboards in VMX-Explorer. | |
In Beeks Analytics, VMX-Explorer is a Grafana-based web user interface, and is where Beeks Analytics visualises the analytics provided by VMX-Analysis. VMX-Explorer is fed by the Beeks Analytics REST API. |