Advanced Use Cases

Advanced use cases collect the techniques that go beyond configuring a source and reading a dashboard — writing reports in FPL, building custom widgets, and emitting custom metrics from inside a processor so that operational counters can be charted and alerted on like any other telemetry. These pages assume the basics are already in place and are aimed at readers extending the platform to answer questions the built-in views do not cover.

In this section

• Reports — the outline of report creation: FPL, widget creation and scheduling, then dashboards and delivery.
• Metrics — creating a metric namespace by writing counters from inside a processor, with a worked example.

Related

• Appendix — the section this belongs to.
• Cookbooks — working parser and report code.
• Reports — the main report documentation.
• Processors — where metric-emitting code runs.
• Metrics Alerts — alerting on the metrics produced here.
• FPL Reference — the language used throughout.