Entity Synthesis

New Relic's goal is to provide practical observability context about business-centric objects and easily organize them into logical systems by focusing on entities. Entities are classified as a data source type and stamped with distinct IDs (guids) for easier classification of ingested data. Entity synthesis is a configuration-based process that dynamically generates entity guids based on unique criteria contained within incoming telemetry, offering advantages such as quick access to telemetry, standard views, summary/golden metrics, entities can be tagged with multiple key-value pairs, and alert state definitions. To create synthesized entities, one must define synthesis rules (definition.yml), golden metrics (golden_metrics.yml), summary metrics (summary_metrics.yml), and a summary dashboard (dashboard.json) based on the required files and configurations, and then check in the branch and create a pull request to merge into the main branch or submit a PR against the fork.

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