An Aggregator defines how data is “sliced and diced“ to produce statistics - or stats - that are then displayed in the dashboards in VMX-Explorer.
Beeks Analytics uses Aggregators to perform calculations on Agent Event data.
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.
Example aggregator structure shown in VMX-Explorer
