Terminology

A table of commonly used terminology can be found below.

Term	Description
Simvue	A generic real-time monitoring and alerting framework with data lineage for any simulation or data processing application.
Run	An instance of a simulation or data processing task which is being monitored by Simvue.
Folder	A location to store information about a run on the Simvue storage system.
Metric	Time series data which is being evaluated and stored as a run is being executed.
Artifact	A file or object that is used as an input or output to the simulation which is stored on the Simvue server
Event	A timestamped text record which is produced and stored during run execution, to monitor the progress of the run
Alert	A warning which can be sent to the user if a Metric or Event is seen to fall outside required parameters during run execution
Metadata	A set of key/value pairs which stores key information about the run being executed
Tag	A short label which can be added to runs or folders to help with efficient filtering and searching through stored data
Status	The current status of the run, automatically updated by Simvue based on it's communication with the simulation
Visibility	The users which a given run can be viewed by, either Public (all users), Tenant (group of users), or Private (only the user who created the run)
Tenant	A group of users who have some shared permissions, and can view runs created by each other
Client	A Python class which allows the user to retrieve data stored on the Simvue server for analysis