Metas (aka metadata) can be seen as labels or. They are additional data that accompany the errors, events etc. in order to provide context and allow granular filtering.
Faro requires app meta as the only mandatory meta when initializing the library. Besides app, it automatically
creates a session meta which can also be set manually in some cases (i.e. sharing the same session with the API,
storing the session ID etc.).
Another meta which is set dynamically is the user meta. This contains one or more of the following: user name, user
email and/or user ID.
The session and user metas can be used to look for all the data captured from a specific session or user and both can be combined to track the activity of a user prior to logging in.
Metas in the API are similar to the ones provided by Faro but they are required by OpenTelemetry.
- Navigate to the Homepage
- Get the session ID from the top of the page
- Navigate to the Features Page
- Click on the
Start new sessionbutton from theEventscategory - Perform other operations in the app
- Observe and get the new session ID
- Navigate to the Explore page in Grafana
- Select the
CortexorLokias a datasource - Input the session IDs copied previously into the label filters or line filters
