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Metadata Management

Feature Overview​

In the observability platform, metadata management is the core module that connects various types of monitoring data, measurement metrics, logs, and tracing information. Through unified and standardized metadata management, the platform can establish correlation relationships between various components, providing more comprehensive and precise observation perspectives.

What is Metadata​

Metadata is data that describes data. In the observability platform, metadata refers to any attributes in monitoring data such as Metric, Log, Trace, etc. Through organization and standardization, attributes with the same meaning are unified into standardized metadata representations to ensure semantic consistency across systems and components.

Metadata contains the following key elements:

  • Key: Unique identifier for a piece of metadata, such as http.status_code.
  • Chinese Name: Chinese description of the metadata, such as "HTTP 状态码".
  • English Name: English description of the metadata, such as "HTTP Status Code".
  • Data Type: The data type of the attribute, such as integer, string, boolean, etc.

Through metadata standardization, data redundancy can be effectively reduced, query and analysis efficiency can be improved, and a solid foundation can be laid for subsequent correlation analysis, alert rule configuration, and automated operations.