What are entities?

Definition:

An entity is a chain of events connected using a common primary key.

Why Entities?

Entities help stitch together all critical events associated with a specific business object, in the above-mentioned case, a payment transaction.

• The presence/absence of these events helps identify failure points in the transaction.

• The attribute values within each event help drill-down and identify variable values within the transactions.

How do entities differ from transactions & events?

Features and capabilities of Entities

1. Grouping in List View: You can group all events associated with a single instance of an entity.

   

2. Alerting: Identifying anomalies in transactions at an aggregate or individual level basis entity events.

   

3. Filtering: You can filter out entities basis.

   

4. Flow views: Track the state of different instances started within a certain duration

   

5. Mapping external metrics to nodes: Every node in an entity can be considered to be equivalent

   

To get started with creating your entities, click here.