Creating an entity definition from a file

A method comprising:

• receiving a file comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising one or more data items separated by one or more delimiters, each data item having an ordered position within the entry;
• causing display of the entries in a table of a GUI, the table having rows and columns, wherein the data items of each entry appear in respective columns of the same row;
• receiving user input designating, for a column of the table, information for at least one of identifying or locating a data item appearing in the column within an entity definition;
• and
• storing the data item appearing in the column in the entity definition in accordance with the user input;
• wherein the entity definition represents an entity from among one or more entities that provide a service, the entity definition having an identification of machine data produced by or about the entity, the service having a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) defined by a search query that derives a value at least in part from the machine data, the value indicating the performance of the service at a point in time or during a period of time;
• wherein the method is performed by a computer system comprising one or more processing devices.

A system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processing device coupled with the memory to:
• receive a file comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising one or more data items separated by one or more delimiters, each data item having an ordered position within the entry;
• cause display of the entries in a table of a GUI, the table having rows and columns, wherein the data items of each entry appear in respective columns of the same row;
• receive user input designating, for a column of the table, information for at least one of identifying or locating a data item appearing in the column within an entity definition;
• and
• store the data item appearing in the column in the entity definition in accordance with the user input;
• wherein the entity definition represents an entity from among one or more entities that provide a service, the entity definition having an identification of machine data produced by or about the entity, the service having a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) defined by a search query that derives a value at least in part from the machine data, the value indicating the performance of the service at a point in time or during a period of time.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoding instructions thereon that, in response to execution by one or more processing devices, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a file comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising one or more data items separated by one or more delimiters, each data item having an ordered position within the entry;
• causing display of the entries in a table of a GUI, the table having rows and columns, wherein the data items of each entry appear in respective columns of the same row;
• receiving user input designating, for a column of the table, information for at least one of identifying or locating a data item appearing in the column within an entity definition;
• and
• storing the data item appearing in the column in the entity definition in accordance with the user input;
• wherein the entity definition represents an entity from among one or more entities that provide a service, the entity definition having an identification of machine data produced by or about the entity, the service having a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) defined by a search query that derives a value at least in part from the machine data, the value indicating the performance of the service at a point in time or during a period of time.