Glossary

Common terms used in Insaion.

Device: a robot or machine running the agent.
Agent: lightweight software that connects a device to Insaion.
Site: a group of devices by location or project.
Template: reusable data collection configuration — monitored topics and recording setup — applied to devices.
Alarm: rule that detects conditions and notifies.
Incident: a tracked occurrence of an alarm.
Data Collection: the device configuration section where each topic is set to be monitored, recorded, or both.
Monitor: ingest a topic as live telemetry, for dashboards, queries and alarms.
Record: write a topic to MCAP files in the device’s rolling buffer, for playback and upload.
Rolling buffer: on-device storage holding recent MCAP recordings, trimmed automatically by a retention policy.
Recording set: one group of recorded topics inside the rolling buffer, with its own file split duration. Called a pipeline in the agent configuration.
Rule: a glob such as /camera/* that records every topic it matches, including ones that appear later.
Downsampling: keeping only a fraction of a monitored topic’s messages, either one in every N (stride) or at most N per second (max rate).
Host metrics: CPU, memory, disk and network telemetry the agent always collects, published under /host_metrics/.