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Configuration Overview

Once Causely is deployed and connected to your telemetry, this section covers how to configure how it detects, prioritizes, and reasons about issues in your environment.

Alerts & Root Causes​

Configure how external alerts are ingested and how Causely reasons about issues it doesn't automatically recognize:

  • Alert Ingestion and Mapping: How Causely maps external alerts to entities and Signals so they participate in causal analysis
  • Custom Causes: Define your own causes for alerts Causely does not automatically recognize

Reliability Prioritization​

Configure which services matter most and how aggressively Causely detects and surfaces issues:

  • Service Prioritization: Assign priority tiers to services so alerts and Diagnoses reflect what matters most
  • SLO Targets and Burn Rates: Configure SLO targets and burn rate behavior for services, HTTP paths, RPC methods, and queues
  • Thresholds: Configure the thresholds used for Signal detection and SLI-based SLO evaluation
  • Signal Delay: Configure activation and deactivation delays to avoid reacting to temporary spikes

Many of these settings can be configured through the Causely UI, Kubernetes/Nomad/Consul labels, or the API. See each page for the methods it supports.

Views​

  • Scopes: Define custom scopes to focus on the subset of your topology that matters most to your role or current task

Discovery​

  • Credentials Autodiscovery: Add new scraping targets without updating the Causely configuration, by labeling the corresponding Kubernetes Secret

General Settings​

Accessible through the Causely UI under Preferences:

  • Screen View Mode: Choose the layout mode for large screens.
  • Auto Refresh Interval: Choose the frequency at which the user interface views should refresh automatically.

Deployment Configuration​

The Helm values file (causely-values.yaml) is the primary method for configuring your Causely deployment.

For a complete list of available configuration options, you can view your current values using:

helm get values causely --namespace causely --all

Read more about the Helm values configuration.