Quick start

What is Spider

Spider is a distributed system analyzer and debugger.

It is a capturing and analyses network exchanges of your IT systems in order to represent them graphically to offer a complete understanding and analysis of these systems.

Spider goal, features and architecture are further described in What's Spider pages.

Objectives of this guide

This guide provides quick steps and tips to start using Spider UI for the first time.
It targets new users having just created an account and about to join a team to access captured data.

After reading this guide, you will be capable to use Spider to deep dive and analyse your data.

This guide includes:

• Dictionary, to get a grasp on Spider own semantic
• Updating your profile, first action to do after connecting 😉
• Join a team, to access data
• UI discovery, to understand the UI
• Access data, to get to the point
• Filter data, to start the drill down
• Share your analysis, to share your discoveries

To conclude, this guide gives tips on how to well use Spider depending on your user profile.

Further reading

Further reading may enhance your efficiency and give you new tricks and power:

• Spider UI pages help you get the most out of any UI feature
• Operating documentation explains to you how to:
  • Configure Whisperers, Gociphers and Controllers to capture more (or less) data
  • Administrate users and teams
  • Monitor Spider
• Plugins pages are a must-read when you'll want to get deeper in integrating the UI with your business through Plugins
• Open API pages helps you to integrate captured data or analytics within your own tools. Such as:
  • monitoring dashboards,
  • alerting system,
  • automated test reports,
  • automated issues reports,
  • ...