What is Cognition?
The five Cognition views explained — when to open each one, what questions it answers, and how to navigate there.
What you'll be able to do after this module
Open Cognition with a purpose — know immediately which view to go to depending on what's wrong.
The problem Cognition solves
Once an app is running in production, you need answers to questions your code can't tell you on its own:
- Did something start failing after that last deployment?
- Is there unusual traffic hitting an endpoint that doesn't exist?
- Is memory climbing toward a ceiling, or has it been stable for days?
- Did something spike at 3am that nobody noticed?
Cognition pulls those answers into one place. It's not a logging tool — it's an intelligence layer on top of what your apps are doing.
How to open Cognition
- Sign in to console.skytells.ai.
- In the left sidebar, find Build & Deploy.
- Select Cognition.
You land on the Cognition hub at console.skytells.ai/cognition.
The six views
Cognition is organized into tab-driven views. Each one answers a specific kind of question.
Overview
Your starting point. Shows error counts, security event totals, anomaly flags, and performance summaries for a selected time window.
Open when: You want a quick read on whether anything is wrong right now.
Errors
A list of application errors with event patterns, stack information, and timing.
Open when: Users are reporting unexpected behavior, or you've seen an error count jump in the overview.
Security Threats
Security events and alerts detected across your apps — suspicious request patterns, authentication anomalies, and other flagged behavior.
Open when: You want to know whether anything is trying to abuse your app, or whether a recent policy change caused unexpected access patterns.
Runtime Health
CPU usage, memory consumption, heap signals, and request latency snapshots from your running apps.
Open when: An app is slow, unstable, or you suspect a memory leak. Also useful as a routine check after a major deployment.
Anomalies
Events that don't fit normal patterns — traffic spikes, unusual error distributions, behavior that looks different from your app's baseline.
Open when: Something feels off but you don't have a specific error to point to.
Live
Real-time event stream from your apps. New events appear as they happen.
Open when: You're actively debugging something and want to see what's happening right now.
AI Analysis
Higher-order analysis surface. Brings together signals from multiple views to surface patterns that are harder to spot manually.
Open when: You've investigated individual views and want a broader perspective, or when an incident is complex and spans multiple systems.
Which view to open first
Use this as a quick mental map:
A note on how Cognition loads data
Cognition uses a fast shell-first layout. The page structure appears immediately, and live data loads into the panels after the shell renders. If a panel looks empty, give it a moment — this is by design and keeps the UI responsive even when fetching large datasets.
What you now understand
| View | Best for |
|---|---|
| Overview | Daily check, post-deploy sanity check |
| Errors | Bug investigation, error spike triage |
| Security Threats | Suspicious access, abuse detection |
| Runtime Health | Performance, memory, stability checks |
| Anomalies | Pattern deviations, unexplained changes |
| Live | Real-time debugging sessions |
| AI Analysis | Complex, cross-signal analysis |
Cognition Monitoring
Learn to use Skytells Cognition to track errors, detect security threats, monitor runtime health, catch anomalies, and stream live events — from the Console and the CLI.
Errors & Incident Investigation
Track application errors, read event patterns and stack information, and correlate spikes with deployments or traffic changes.