If you work with monitoring or monitoring tools much, you’ve probably seen the phrase “correlating” here and there. Correlation is what can help you find metrics with similar pattern and see dependencies between metrics even if you don’t suspect they are in dependency relation. When troubleshooting, automatic metrics correlation is the easiest way to find root cause.
Automatic metrics correlation in Sematext Cloud work pretty straight forward: you select a metrics of interested, select time range and Correlation mechanism will find all metrics which have similar behaviour in the same time range. Similar spikes, similar trends, similar waves.