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Learn how to break a service down by its labels to isolate an anomaly.

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Investigate a service with labels

checkoutservice is spiking. Labels help you see which dimension is driving that.

The Labels tab shows the labels for this service under the selected profile type (CPU in this case).

To investigate with labels, complete the following steps:

  1. The checkoutservice panel has some huge spikes. Click Labels on the panel to explore it further.

  2. In the Search labels field, type region so the region panel is on screen. If you already see it, click Skip.

  3. At a glance, one region is using a lot more CPU than the other two. Click Select on the region panel.

    That gives each region its own panel so you can compare CPU usage side by side.

  4. Look at the separate region panels. ap-south-1 and us-east-2 have similar CPU usage, but eu-west-1 uses quite a bit more. That points to eu-west-1 as the place to investigate next.

You’ve isolated the problem to a single region. Next, you’ll pinpoint the exact function responsible.