Learn about the advantages of using event frames

Event frames provide these advantages:

• Flexibility

  Event frames:

  • Reference multiple elements within the same event.

  • Support multiple overlapping events on a PI AF element.

  • Capture any event; a "batch" is just one type of capturable event.

• Easy search options

  Searches can be specified on a number of configurable event frame attributes: it is optional to specify a time range. For example, you can search just by entering the name of the event frame. The most commonly searched event frame attributes can be configured as indexed attributes through event frame templates, which speeds up end-user searches.

• Scalability

  Event frames are extremely scalable whereas search performance degrades with a large number (tens of thousands) of batches.