Configuration Overview

Configuration

This section walks you through the key elements of configuring Edge Delta—from defining pipelines and processors to managing alerting and dashboard settings. Whether you’re building YAML-based configurations or using the UI, these topics help you shape how telemetry flows through your environment.

You’ll find guidance on designing effective pipelines, customizing processors, enriching your data, and triggering actionable insights—all while reducing the volume of data sent to downstream tools.

Explore the configuration topics below:

Pipeline and Processor Configuration

Set up and customize pipelines to control how data flows from sources through processors to destinations. Learn how to create pipelines, use built-in or custom processor packs and fine-tune global and agent settings.

Live Capture and In-Stream Debugging

Live Capture helps you build better pipelines by exposing what’s actually flowing through them. It shows the last 100 data items passing through each processor node, and allows you to:

• Inspect raw data and processor outputs side-by-side
• Select individual data items to view diffs and metadata
• Pause, resume, and replay real-time flows

Use it to reduce guesswork during development and verify processor logic with confidence.

Configuration with YAML

Define and manage pipelines declaratively using YAML. This section includes instructions for configuring Edge Delta with Kubernetes ConfigMaps, letting you version and automate observability workflows as code.

Effective Pipeline Design

Best practices for building scalable, cost-efficient pipelines. Learn how to reduce redundancy, minimize data duplication, and maintain clarity as your observability footprint grows.

Source Configuration

Automatically detect telemetry sources or define them manually. Configure metadata tagging to preserve context and enhance queryability downstream.

Alerts and Triggers

Set up alerts at both the pipeline and platform levels. Create real-time triggers based on data patterns in your pipelines or configure back end alerts for long-term trends and anomalies.

Data Enrichment

Add contextual value to your telemetry using lookup tables. This lets you correlate logs or metrics with external datasets—such as business metadata or environment context—without modifying source data.

Dashboards

Create and customize dashboards that surface the most important metrics and signals. This section covers dashboard creation, default visualizations, private deployment, maps, and widget configuration.

By mastering configuration, you gain full control over how Edge Delta collects, processes, routes, and visualizes observability data—empowering your teams to reduce noise, improve cost efficiency, and get ahead of incidents.

Looking for a quick start? Jump into Basic Pipeline Configuration to begin.