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.

1. To begin creating a tagger, click on Event Autotagging in the left navigation bar.

2. Click on the + Create tagger button.

3. Enter Excessive Temperature in the Name field. Add an optional description, if desired, then click the Continue button.

4. Type temperature into the Variable name field. Remember to follow proper naming conventions when naming variables.

5. In the Channel dropdown, select the relevant channel -- in this case, /terrible_temperature.

6. 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.

7. In the Access path section, select temperature from the Schema path dropdown.

8. 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 need temperature.

9. Click Continue to proceed to the next step — defining a tagger predicate