Learn Wavefront

Learn Wavefront with in-product or external resources:

• Learn Wavefront in Wavefront: Getting Started workflow, tutorial and tour integrations, help panel, integration setup examples.
• Tutorials, Videos, and More: Tutorials, Reference documentation, FAQs and Recipes, videos, and more.
  • Start with the Hello Wavefront! tutorial.
  • To do something, check out the How-to Get Started videos.
  • To get some big picture background, watch some Basic Concepts Videos.

Learn Wavefront in Wavefront

The Getting Started onboarding flow helps you get data into Wavefront, build a dashboard, and create an alert. All trial users go through a Getting Started flow. All other users can click Getting Started in the taskbar to start. You can use the customer-wide or user-level preferences to control whether Getting Started is visible in the taskbar.
The Tutorial integration allows you to experiment with charts and alerts to learn (clone the integration to save your results). In the taskbar, click Integrations. Click Wavefront Tutorial and click the Dashboards tab. Click a dashboard and follow the instructions on the left to explore the charts (with sample data) on the right.
The Tour Pro integration is a deep dive into Wavefront functionality. You can explore Tour dashboards and charts, which use sample data to highlight functionality like Anomaly Detection or fine-tuning alerts. The tour also includes single-host and cluster metrics exploration dashboards. In the taskbar, click Integrations. Search for and click Tour Pro and click the Dashboards tab. Click any of the dashboards to explore - they can be used independently.
The Help panel is available for most screens when you click the question mark ?. You'll get a brief overview and links to other information.

Find Reference Documentation, FAQs, and Best Practices

Our docs include reference documentation for API, query language, and chart options. Our customer success team helped with FAQs and best practices.

REST API reference documentation is available: From the gear icon in the top right on the taskbar inside the product (see screenshot). This option shows you the current version on your cluster. From the VMware Code website. This option shows the most recent version.
Query language reference documentation is available in this doc set. Click any link to see a function page with examples for that function, as shown in the screenshot on the right.
The Chart Reference has details for each chart type.
For Best Practices, our engineering and customer success teams continually update the information. Those doc pages have a label. Use the Best Practices tile in docs.wavefront.com or pick one of these popular Best Practices pages: Alerts Best Practices Alerts Recipes Query Language Recipes Data Naming Best Practices Tracing Best Practices
Our FAQ info helps both users who are new to Wavefront and users who know exactly what they want. We're updating this list as we hear from you in conversations or on Slack. Wavefront Charts FAQs explains how to set color mapping, how to define drilldown links, and more. Wavefront and Kubernetes FAQ addresses common questions, such as integrating with third-party applications. Tracing FAQ helps with common tasks like filtering RED metrics with custom span tags. Wavefront and Spring Boot FAQ explains differences between Freemium and trial clusters, how to visualize metrics and traces, and more.

Learn with Tutorials & Videos

This doc set includes a set of tutorials for common use cases and links to short videos that help you get up to speed quickly.

Tutorials use simple examples to get you up to speed with the different Wavefront components. We're continually adding to this set - let us know what else you'd like to see.
Videos have been part of Wavefront learning from the start. Different videos have different focus. Lightboard videos give conceptual background Our task-focus videos show how to get things done. Here are some task-focus intro videos. Click links in that section for more.