About the Monitor-Name Page

Tasks You Can Perform

You can perform the following tasks on the Monitor-Name page:

• View Monitor details—You can view the following details related to the Monitor:

  • Monitor name—The name of the Monitor that you have specified at the time of creating the Monitor.

  • Monitor description—The description of the Monitor that you have entered at the time of creating the Monitor.

  • Last Started—The date and time when the Monitor was last started.

  • Monitor status—The overall status of the Monitor that you run.

• View Monitor results for a specific period—You can select a predefined period (15 m, 2h, 4h, 8h, 16h, 24h, 1w) for which you want to view the results of all Monitors. You can also view the last started time of the Monitor.

  Click Custom to set a custom time range for which you want to view the results of all Monitors. On the Custom Time Range Selection page that appears, enter the day and time in the From and To fields, respectively.

• View the list of events—You can view the events generated by the Monitor and the date and time at which the event has occurred. The last five events are displayed on the Events bar.

  To view the list of all the events generated in the order of occurrence, expand the Events bar by clicking >. When you click More, the Events page appear. You can also sort the columns in the Events page. For more information on the events generated by the Monitor, see Table 1.

• View the events on an event bar—You can view all the events generated on an event bar. The event bar is a colour-driven bar graph that indicates events and the time at which the event has occurred. The colors represent the severity of events. That is, critical events are represented in red, errors are represented in orange, warnings are represented in yellow, information is represented in blue.

  You can also hover over an event generated on the event bar to view the start time, end time, total number of events generated, and the number of events generated in each type.

• View the status of each Task within the Step—A Step is a collection of Tasks and a Monitor can only have one Step. Each Task within a Step is displayed as different event bars. Click > to view the event bar for each Task. When you hover over the event bar, you can view the events generated for the Task.

• View the list of Streams—You can view the list of Streams generated for the Task you selected and their details as displayed in Table 2. To view the details of a specific Stream, click a Stream-Name. The Stream-Name page displays the result for metrics as area-graphs. For more information, see View Stream Details.

• Group all the Tasks—By default, all Streams are displayed in a table format. When you enable the Group by Task toggle button, the Streams are categorized based on the Tasks. By default, this toggle button is disabled.

  When you enable this toggle button, you can expand and hide the Streams within the Tasks by using Expand and Minimize icons. When you click Expand icon, the Stream details for each Task are displayed, and when you click Minimize, the Stream details for each Task are hidden.

• Start or Stop a Monitor—You can start or stop a Monitor by using the Start or Stop options. If the Monitor status is Completed, click More on the top-right corner of the page and select Start to restart a Monitor. If the Monitor status is Running, click More on the top-right corner of the page and select Stop to stop a Monitor.

  A message confirms that Paragon Automation successfully started or stopped the Monitor and the overall status of the Monitor changes to Running or Stopped.

• Edit a Monitor—You can edit a Monitor by using the Edit option. To edit a Monitor, click More on the top-right corner of the page and select Edit.

  You are redirected to the Edit Monitor (Observability > Active Assurance > Measurement Designer) page and the Monitor you configured is displayed in edit mode.

Table 1: Fields in the Events page

Field	Description
Severity	The type of severity level of the event that is raised when there is a criteria violation. The following are the severity levels: Critical—Indicates that the event is critical and needs immediate attention. Warning—Indicates that the event needs to be fixed but does not require immediate attention. Info—Indicates that an event is raised that provides information on progress of the Task and does not require attention. Error—Indicates that the event needs to be fixed and requires immediate attention and troubleshooting.
Description	The description that you specified when you configured the evaluation criteria for a Monitor.
Raise Time	The date and time when the event was generated. The timestamp is displayed in the following format: Month DD, YYYY, HH:MM:SS AM/PM. The date and time is displayed according to the Raise delay you specified when you configured the evaluation criteria for a Monitor. For example, Mar 5, 2024, 4:29:52 PM.
Clear Time	The date and time when the event was cleared. The timestamp is displayed in the following format: Month DD, YYYY, HH:MM:SS AM/PM. The date and time is displayed according to the clear delay you specified when you configured the evaluation criteria for a Monitor. For example, Mar 5, 2024, 4:29:52 PM.
Subject	The details of the event generated is displayed in JSON format. It displays various IDs related to the event like Test Agent ID, Monitor ID, Task ID, Stream ID, and so on. To view the details, click show hyperlink.
Data	The details of the evaluation criteria associated with the event generated. To view data, click show hyperlink.

Table 2: Fields in the Monitor Result Table

Field	Description
Stream Name	The name of the Stream that is auto-generated by Paragon Automation when you run a Monitor.
Config	The configuration details of the selected Stream. Click show to view the details of the results metrics measured by the Stream. You can also copy the configuration.
Task Name	The name of the Task that generated the Stream. Tasks such as UDP is bi-directional. A bi-directional Task produces two Streams.
Task Status	The status of the Task generated by the Stream. The Task can have Waiting, Started, Running, Error, Stopped, and Completed status.
Severity	The severity level of events raised by Streams. The following are the severity levels: Critical—Indicates that the event is critical and needs immediate attention. Warning—Indicates that the event needs to be fixed but does not require immediate attention. Info—Indicates that an informational event is raised that provides details on the progress of the Task and does not require attention. Error—Indicates that the event needs to be fixed and requires immediate attention and troubleshooting.
Event Overview	The event overview of a Stream displays an event bar. You can view the start time, end time, total number of events generated, and the number of events generated in each type. The events can have Critical (Red), Error (Orange), Warning (Yellow), or Info (Blue) status. If you click a Stream-Name, you can access a detailed result of all metrics measured by the Stream. See View Stream Details for more information.