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What are entities?

Entities help define paths of critical checkpoints for a product workflow.

PublishedJuly 26, 2023

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What are entities?

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Definition:Why Entities?How do entities differ from transactions & events?Features and capabilities of Entities

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

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