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Entity Details


In the entity list, click any entity name to open the details page in a slide-out panel, which provides a centralized view of the entity's metadata, relationship topology, and associated observability data.

Top Action Bar

The top of the page displays the entity's core identity and quick actions:

  • Entity name: The entity type icon and entity name are shown on the left, and the data source is marked on the right.
  • Edit: Click to open the edit dialog, where you can modify the entity's display name, description, project, service specification, contact information, external links, and other attributes.
  • More: Delete entity: Deletes the entity object after confirmation.

Basic Information

Displays the entity's business attributes and contact information, grouped by information type.

Entity Attributes

Displays the corresponding business fields dynamically based on the entity type (system, service, host, database, etc.):

  • General attributes: Project, entity description, owning team, custom tags
  • Service specification (for service types): Service type (Web/DB/Cache/Queue, etc.), development language (Java/Go/Python, etc.), lifecycle stage (running, in maintenance, etc.), deployment environment (production/staging/testing/development)
  • Infrastructure (for hosts/databases): Host IP, operating system, cloud provider, instance ID, region, availability zone
  • Ownership: Shows the upper-level entities that this entity belongs to (such as the owning host or system) and the runtime dependencies it relies on (such as dependent Redis and database instances)

Contact Information

Centrally displays the entity's alert notification contacts, ordered by Slack, email, and phone.

For privacy protection, only contact names are displayed by default; specific phone numbers, email addresses, and Slack accounts are hidden.

  • Click the View icon next to a name to expand and display the full contact information.
  • Click the Copy icon or click the name directly to copy the contact information.

Aggregates shortcut entries to external resources related to this entity, including code repositories, help documentation, and views.

Relationships

Displays the relationships between this entity and other entities through a visual topology, supporting two view modes: Dependency and Hierarchy.

Dependency View

Shows the entity's call paths and ownership relationships; supports search to quickly locate related entities.

  • Left-side list: Displays four categories of related entities

    • Owning entities: The infrastructure that the current entity belongs to (such as the owning host or cluster)
    • Subordinate entities: Components or instances that belong to the current entity
    • Upstream entities: Services that call the current entity
    • Downstream entities: Services called by the current entity (that is, the current entity's runtime dependencies)
  • Right-side topology:

    • The current entity is highlighted in the center, and related entities are arranged in layers by relationship type.
    • View Full-Path Relationships is disabled by default, so the display scope covers first-level topology relationships directly connected to the current entity, along with the call relationships among entities in that scope, making it easy to view call direction and dependencies in the local topology.
    • To view the complete chain, click Settings in the upper-right corner and enable View Full-Path Relationships. The topology then shows the full-path relationships and highlights the current entity's connections, helping you locate its position in the chain.
    • Click any entity node in the topology to expand a drop-down card showing the entity's basic information. Click View Entity Details to explore that entity's relationship topology in depth.

Hierarchy View

Shows the entity's ownership hierarchy:

  • Left-side list: Shows owning entities (the upper-level entities that the current entity belongs to) and subordinate entities (the lower-level entities that belong to the current entity).
  • Right-side topology: Displays the hierarchical ownership relationships in a tree diagram, with the current entity highlighted.

Adjusting the Topology Layout

In the Relationships tab of the entity details, you can drag relationship links on the topology canvas to adjust how the links are displayed. While dragging, the start and end points of the links remain unchanged, and the relationships between entities are not affected.

Click Restore Default Layout to reset the topology to its default layout.

Entities

Lists all entities that have relationships with the current entity; supports keyword search by entity name.

The list provides the following information:

  • Entity count: Shows the total number of related entities.
  • Entity list: Shows the name, type, and relationship type (such as owned by or depends on) of each related entity.

Configuration Details

Displays the entity's complete configuration definition in YAML format, including metadata such as basic attributes, tags, and relationship definitions. Supports one-click copying of the YAML content.

Logs

The error log explorer associated with this entity displays the error logs generated by the entity by default. You can directly view, search, and analyze log data within the details page.

Traces

Displays a list of distributed tracing data generated by this entity, with key fields such as trace ID, service name, resource name, and duration available for review.

Events

Centrally displays all events associated with this entity, with toggle support between the list view and the timeline view. The timeline view is shown by default.

List View

Displays events in reverse chronological order, supporting filtering by event type and keyword search. Click an event to navigate to the event details explorer.

Timeline View

Uses a status color bar overlaid with change event markers to intuitively show the entity's alert status distribution and change history within the selected time range, helping you quickly determine "whether changes occurred before or after an incident."

  • Status color bar: Shows the alert status distribution in time slices. The color is determined by the highest-level alert event in the slice and is aligned with the definitions in Event Center levels.
  • Change event markers: Change event markers (◆) are overlaid on the timeline, including native change events and externally flagged change events. When adjacent markers are too dense, they automatically aggregate into clusters; click a cluster to expand and view the list of change events.
  • Event statistics: Statistic cards for four event types—change, alert, normal, and security—are shown at the top. Click a card to filter the event list below. Supports searching event content; click an event to navigate to the event details explorer.

    • Change events: Includes native change events and change events flagged through external event monitors.
    • Alert events: Alert events generated by monitors, Smart Monitoring, and other sources.
    • Normal events: Events generated by OpenAPI writes, SLOs, custom events, and other sources.
    • Security events: Anomalous behavior or vulnerability alerts detected by the security module.

Metrics

Shows the performance metric charts associated with this entity.

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