Alert: A condition that needs attention, produced by a rule threshold or SPC control. Alerts have a status, severity, assignee, and history.
Alerting condition: The trigger, severity, message, and notification configuration that turns a rule event into an alert. Also called a threshold in some detail views.
Chipper Log Collector: The Windows agent that watches configured local log files and streams new data into the ingestion path.
Coherence engine: Chipper's product category: a learned model of what it takes to keep a lab's connected systems working coherently.
Derivation rule: A rule that extracts or computes a numeric value from log data for thresholds, charts, or SPC.
Duration rule: A rule that pairs start and end conditions and measures elapsed time.
Event: A meaningful occurrence created when an enabled rule matches parsed log data.
Instance rule: A rule that creates an event for each matching occurrence.
Instrument: The stable device identity that files, runs, events, alerts, methods, and log sources are attributed to.
Log file: The original instrument or system output received through a collector, cloud source, or manual upload.
Log source: The configuration that describes how one instrument's logs reach Chipper.
Method: A repeated workflow identified in instrument data.
Process model: Chipper's learned, per-method representation of how a workflow executes, including its steps, timing, equipment, and recovery behavior.
Rule: A definition that detects an occurrence, measures a duration, or derives a numeric value from parsed logs.
Run: One execution of a method. A run can span multiple files and can be labeled partial when the available data is incomplete.
SPC: Statistical process control: method- and instrument-aware control charts and alerting for numeric measurements.
Workcell: A group of instruments treated as one operational unit. Each component instrument still has its own log source.