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Understand System Behavior

This page explains how Causely provides deep insights into why your systems behave the way they do by building a causal model of your entire environment and making it queryable.

Once you've installed Causely, the system automatically generates your topology graph and builds a comprehensive understanding of your system's behavior and relationships. For more details on how Causely builds this understanding, see How Causely Works.

Explore Your System Topology​

The Topology view provides a comprehensive view of your entire system. You can explore:

  • Service dependencies and relationships: Understand how services connect and depend on each other
  • Data flow across operations: See how data moves through your system
  • Infrastructure stack: View the infrastructure components that support each entity
  • Historical behavior patterns: Analyze how your system has behaved over time

This topology graph forms the foundation for understanding system behavior, blast radius analysis, root cause attribution, and cross-service impact modeling.

Ask Causely​

Use Ask Causely to query your system's behavior using natural language. Ask questions like:

  • "Why is service X slow?"
  • "What changed in the last hour?"
  • "Show me the dependencies for service Y"
  • "What's causing the latency in my API?"

Causely uses its causal model and topology graph to provide intelligent answers about your system's behavior, helping you understand not just what happened, but why it happened.

Improve Understanding​

To gain deeper insights into your system:

  • Connect more telemetry: Add additional telemetry sources to provide more comprehensive coverage. More telemetry means a more comprehensive topology graph and better causal insights.

  • Configure scopes: Set up scopes to organize your entities and focus on specific parts of your system.

  • Use Ask Causely regularly: Regularly query your system to build familiarity with how it behaves and to identify patterns and relationships.

Want to understand your system behavior as well?

Ready to gain deep insights into why your systems behave the way they do? Connect with our team today to try Causely and see how it can help you understand your system behavior.

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