User Guide
Synapse Metrics adds new Storm commands for retrieving a Cortex’s edit activity by time, layer, user, tag, or node attributes.
Getting Started
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Examples
Display edit history by inbound node
> inet:fqdn=vertex.link | metrics.edits.bynode
Layer | User | Time | Form | EditType | Edit
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ecfa66e1acbec168e2e68215a8391eef | root | 2025-06-12 20:43:17 | inet:fqdn | node:add | {'valu': 'vertex.link', 'type': 17}
ecfa66e1acbec168e2e68215a8391eef | root | 2025-06-12 20:43:17 | inet:fqdn | prop:set | {'prop': '.created', 'valu': 1749760997862, 'oldv': None, 'type': 21}
ecfa66e1acbec168e2e68215a8391eef | root | 2025-06-12 20:43:17 | inet:fqdn | prop:set | {'prop': 'host', 'valu': 'vertex', 'oldv': None, 'type': 1}
ecfa66e1acbec168e2e68215a8391eef | root | 2025-06-12 20:43:17 | inet:fqdn | prop:set | {'prop': 'domain', 'valu': 'link', 'oldv': None, 'type': 17}
ecfa66e1acbec168e2e68215a8391eef | root | 2025-06-12 20:43:17 | inet:fqdn | prop:set | {'prop': 'issuffix', 'valu': 0, 'oldv': None, 'type': 2}
ecfa66e1acbec168e2e68215a8391eef | root | 2025-06-12 20:43:17 | inet:fqdn | prop:set | {'prop': 'iszone', 'valu': 1, 'oldv': None, 'type': 2}
ecfa66e1acbec168e2e68215a8391eef | root | 2025-06-12 20:43:17 | inet:fqdn | prop:set | {'prop': 'zone', 'valu': 'vertex.link', 'oldv': None, 'type': 17}
ecfa66e1acbec168e2e68215a8391eef | root | 2025-06-12 20:43:17 | inet:fqdn | tag:set | {'tag': 'foo', 'valu': (None, None), 'oldv': None}
inet:fqdn=vertex.link
.created = 2025/06/12 20:43:17.862
:domain = link
:host = vertex
:issuffix = false
:iszone = true
:zone = vertex.link
#foo
Display edit history by tag
> metrics.edits.bytag foo
Layer | User | Time | Form | EditType | Edit
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ecfa66e1acbec168e2e68215a8391eef | root | 2025-06-12 20:43:17 | inet:fqdn | tag:set | {'tag': 'foo', 'valu': (None, None), 'oldv': None}
Yield nodes which previously had a tag
> inet:fqdn#foo [ -#foo ]
inet:fqdn=vertex.link
.created = 2025/06/12 20:43:17.862
:domain = link
:host = vertex
:issuffix = false
:iszone = true
:zone = vertex.link
> $tag=foo metrics.nodes.bytag $tag --unset | -#$tag
inet:fqdn=vertex.link
.created = 2025/06/12 20:43:17.862
:domain = link
:host = vertex
:issuffix = false
:iszone = true
:zone = vertex.link
Use of meta:source nodes
Synapse Metrics does not create/use meta:source nodes.