Terminology
Terminology in IT is always a bit of a challenge we try to make it easier by outlining what we mean with curtain terms.
Terminology overview
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Agentcore | Central component in a monitored infrastructure that acts as a relay between probes and the InfraSonar cloud. |
| Agents | A standalone InfraSonar component that can send monitoring data to InfraSonar via the API |
| API | The API allows users to perform automated access using a personal access token. |
| Appliance | A dedicated (virtual) Linux appliance for InfraSonar. |
| Asset | A monitored network component in an environment. |
| Collectors | These perform the actual measurement and are tailored per monitored component. InfraSonar knows three types of collectors: probes for agentless monitoring, agents for standalone or event driven monitoring and services for remote monitoring from the cloud. |
| Container | Used to organize environments and authorization in those environments. |
| Frontend | These are the webservers hosting the UI for end users to access InfraSonar. |
| Hub | State is stored here in memory, and logic is performed when new monitoring data arrives. |
| SiriDB | The database used for storing timeseries data with a long term retention. |