If you're an Advanced Compute customer, you can use NRQL to directly query entity and relationship data in NRDB alongside your telemetry data. This unified access enables faster troubleshooting and deeper system insights.
This document covers:
- Querying entity and relationship data with NRQL
- Correlating entities with telemetry for comprehensive analysis
- Practical examples like tracking state changes and finding application-host relationships
Key benefits
Are you looking to simplify how you understand your systems and troubleshoot issues faster? We've centralized your data by bringing entities and their relationships directly into NRDB. This means you can use the power of NRQL to get a complete picture of your environment, all in one place.
Here's how you benefit:
- Access all your entity data directly in NRDB: You'll find that your entity and relationship data is ingested and stored in NRDB. This creates a unified datastore, making it the central place for this critical information alongside your telemetry data.
- Query with ease using NRQL: You can use the powerful and flexible NRQL you're already familiar with to query this entity and relationship data. This simplifies your workflow, as you don't need to learn new query languages or perform complex joins across different data stores. Your queries become more straightforward and easier to manage.
- Get timely insights with 24-hour data availability: Wondering if the data will be there when you need it? This entity and relationship data is retained in NRDB for a 24-hour period. This availability allows you to perform timely analysis and correlation, so you can quickly retrieve the information needed to understand system behavior and identify dependencies.
- Achieve a holistic view with simplified correlation: You can effortlessly link entities, their relationships, and your associated telemetry data (like metrics, events, logs, and traces). This improved correlation capability means you get a complete picture of your environment's health and performance, enabling you to troubleshoot issues more efficiently and gain faster insights.
Next steps
Ready to put this into practice? Check out our NRQL query examples for entities & relationships to see practical queries for common use cases like correlating CPU usage with host attributes, tracking entity state changes, and finding applications related to hosts.