Defining a tagger variable
A variable represents the time series data that will be evaluated to determine whether an event occurred. You can define one or more variables in a tagger.
To tag excessive temperature events, you will create a variable based on the temperature channel in a log.
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Type
temperature
into theVariable name
field. Remember to follow proper naming conventions when naming variables. -
In the
Channel
dropdown, select the relevant channel -- in this case,/terrible_temperature
. -
You can click on the
Display schema
to review the message schema for the channel and identify the schema path containing the target variable data. -
In the
Access path
section, selecttemperature
from theSchema path
dropdown. -
You can ensure your variable definition is valid by clicking on the
Validate
button. Note that you can add more variables, if needed. In this case, we only needtemperature
. -
Click
Continue
to proceed to the next step — defining a tagger predicate