What are entities?
Entities help define paths of critical checkpoints for a product workflow.
Definition:
An entity is a chain of events connected using a common primary key.
Why Entities?
Entities help stitch together all critical events associated with a specific business object, in the above-mentioned case, a payment transaction.
The presence/absence of these events helps identify failure points in the transaction.
The attribute values within each event help drill-down and identify variable values within the transactions.
How do entities differ from transactions & events?
Features and capabilities of Entities
Grouping in List View: You can group all events associated with a single instance of an entity.
Alerting: Identifying anomalies in transactions at an aggregate or individual level basis entity events.
Filtering: You can filter out entities basis.
Flow views: Track the state of different instances started within a certain duration
Mapping external metrics to nodes: Every node in an entity can be considered to be equivalent
To get started with creating your entities, click here.