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title: "Knowledge Graph | Grafana Labs"
description: "Automatic issue detection and guided troubleshooting"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Beyond services: your entire system mapped

Knowledge Graph provides three core capabilities:

| Capability         | What it does                   | Problems solved                                  |
|--------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| **Entity Catalog** | All entities and relationships | Unified view of services, hosts, pods, databases |
| **Insights**       | Automatic issue detection      | Problems surface before users report them        |
| **RCA Workbench**  | Timeline-based investigation   | Guided troubleshooting with AI assistance        |

## Entity types discovered

| Type           | Examples                           |
|----------------|------------------------------------|
| Services       | checkout-api, payment-service      |
| Infrastructure | Hosts, nodes, pods, containers     |
| Data           | Databases, caches, message queues  |
| Groupings      | Namespaces, clusters, environments |

## Insight types

| Type           | What it detects                           |
|----------------|-------------------------------------------|
| **Anomalies**  | Traffic drops, latency spikes             |
| **Failures**   | 5xx errors, pod crashes                   |
| **Saturation** | Resources approaching limits              |
| **Amends**     | Deployments, config changes, scale events |

## Questions answered

| With Knowledge Graph, you can answer…            |
|--------------------------------------------------|
| What services run on this failing host?          |
| What changed right before this issue started?    |
| Which related entities are also having problems? |
| What’s the blast radius if this component fails? |