An Aggregator defines how data is “sliced and diced“ to produce statistics - or stats - that are then displayed in the dashboards in VMX-Explorer.
Each Aggregator can be thought of as a spreadsheet representing a flattened tree structure, where each cell is tracking a different stat. In the example below, the nodepath column on the far-left shows the level of the breakdown of the recorded data, generally with top level summary data and multiple levels of breakdown by technical or business attributes.
VMX-Analysis uses Aggregators to perform calculations on Agent Event data. VMX-Analysis can also present Aggregators that are populated by statistics events provided by Statistics Collectors in VMX-Capture, which are connected to VMX-Analysis using a Generic Aggregator Input Event (GAIE) Connector .