Documentation Grafana Cloud Knowledge graph Introduction Entity graph

Entity graph

The knowledge graph builds an entity graph of your system by detecting issues on your entities and related properties. The entity graph helps you view the dependencies between services and systems, and understand where any issues originate.

The knowledge graph generates an entity graph by analyzing metrics and discovering application and infrastructure components and the relationships between them. The knowledge graph updates the graph every minute. The metrics that form the basis of the graph can come from various sources such as Prometheus exporters, Istio, Grafana Beyla, metrics derived from OpenTelemetry Traces, and LogQL queries on raw logs.

For more information about the entity catalog, refer to Navigate the entity graph.