Guided Tours of Apica Ascent Capabilities
Fleet
Fleet is a lightweight agent manager that dynamically adjusts the collection, enrichment, and sending of observability data by managing configuration files, ensuring your existing agents respond seamlessly to changes in your environment.
Topology
The Topology View feature transforms how you interact with ingested data. It's designed as a logical topology browser, enabling you to group and work with applications and data seamlessly. This intuitive approach means that related applications and data are easily accessible in one place.
Logical Data Grouping, Error Aggregation, Chronological Navigation, and Customizable Groupings that align with enterprise operational strategies.
The color-coded nodes quickly highlight errors and warnings, streamlining your troubleshooting process.
The Time Travel feature allows users to retrospectively view system changes using a color-coded system to pinpoint where and when problems began.
Distributed Tracing
Apica's distributed tracing view facilitates trace searches using attribute-based criteria. Users input specific attributes and values, prompting the system to retrieve matching traces and spans.
Targeted Search enables precise filtering based on specific data attributes. Streamlines the search process, reducing time spent on data retrieval.
Observe
Query: Descriptive Statistics Overview — a comprehensive summary of statistical metrics for the executed query, including value column, total data points, mean, median, mode, high bound, low bound, and standard deviation.
Log Management
Users have the flexibility to sift through logs by selecting their desired time range. Choose from a predefined set of relative time options or use the dynamic relative time range selector for specific log searches.
Choose from predefined relative time options or use dynamic relative time range selector for specific log searches.
Build complex expressions in a search query for searching logs. Advance Query supports the use of complex expressions in the search query for log search.
The favorites feature allows you to mark your search queries for quick and easy access in the future.
Dashboards
The Import Dashboard feature lets you quickly leverage pre-defined dashboards tailored for common use cases, enabling efficient monitoring of your application and infrastructure.
Avoid the hassle of building complex dashboards from scratch and gain insights faster with just a few clicks.
Apica Ascent equips you with advanced monitoring tools to easily track metrics, identify anomalies, and receive early warnings to prevent incidents.
AI / ML / GenAI
Detecting anomalies in metrics is simplified through machine learning techniques applied to time-series data. Leverage Gen-AI technology to significantly aid in understanding security logs.
Start with pre-formed time-series data, generate data with a query, visualize with a chart, and adjust anomaly detection sensitivity.
Navigate to logs view, choose log events, open the Gen-AI chat interface, and pose questions directly related to the attributes found within the log data.
Highlight data from the current table page in the pattern chart. Compare patterns on two different time ranges side by side.
The AI-powered search feature uses the GitBook API to generate accurate, context-specific responses to natural language queries.
Security
OSSEC stands as the most popular Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) for meticulous security monitoring and capturing compliance evidence. The Apica Ascent Platform fully supports OSSEC, along with its enhanced capabilities.
Navigate to Integrations, select the OSSEC extension, then switch to the Explore view to access and analyze OSSEC logs in real-time.
Live Tailing
Logs Live Tail streamlines troubleshooting by offering a real-time stream of new log events as they arrive. Swiftly detect and address issues by viewing, filtering, and highlighting logs almost instantaneously.
Navigate to the explore view, select your desired namespace/application, and start tailing logs live. Pause the stream or download logs for further analysis.
Settings and Configuration
Configure your Apica Ascent environment to match your team's preferences — from timezone settings to SAML authentication and mail server configuration.
The TimeZone setting gives users the capability to set the timezone based on their preference from a dropdown menu or keyword search.
Enable SAML login from the settings for ease-of-access in logging in to the application.
Configure emails to forward alerts and send email invites by navigating to the mail tab in settings.
Data Explorer
Filter the namespace or application based on keyword search, or select multiple namespaces to filter your data. Create and customize widgets and dashboards to tailor visualizations to your needs.
Create Dashboard from pre-defined JSON schema.
Create and customize widgets in the Data Explorer using the builder option to tailor visualizations to your specific analytical needs.
Rule Management
Rules and rule packs play a pivotal role in data management, allowing users to effectively manage the cost and flow of their data. Create rules by hovering over any log line and selecting "Create rule."
Pipeline
A data pipeline orchestrates the flow of data through a predefined series of steps or processes. It's designed for systematic and efficient data movement and transformation, incorporating filtering and rule application to manage the data stream.
Apply robust operations on incoming logs with the help of the CODE Rule.
Synthetic Monitoring Overview
Steps to onboard users from ASM to ASM+. Click on the ASM+ button to go to the new ASM+ Page.
Synthetic Monitoring Check Creation
Creating a browser check is an essential and widely-used method for tracking user interactions and experiences on your platform.
Synthetic Monitoring Check Configuration
Steps for Configuring URL Checks — edit interval inclusion/exclusion periods, configure block rules and severity mapping.
Synthetic Monitoring Check Results
Use a swift, three-click process to identify the underlying cause of a failure in a synthetic check. Watch as we pinpoint the application error responsible for disrupting a Synthetic script's performance.