Entity creation and their upstream/downstream relationship best practites question

[Valqe]

Hi all,

I understand the concept of creating 'Entities' through 'Entity Type' and their filters. It's a very cool feature and it also keps entities in sync (usually with the CMDB other tables). While its a cool feature, I have come to realize that it can also scale very fast, and if not carefull on setting the right filter conditions one will end up with thousands of entities and will be very hard to maintain.

Q1: What is your recommendation when it comes to entity creation?
I have come to realize it is better to sometimes create entities manually (i.e. for specific Windows Server build (but not for all servers], or for specific Application), but I greatly appreciate you sharing your personal comments and expereience with entity creation.

Q2: Any best practices for organizing 'Entities' in upstream/downstream relationship is appreciated.

Elaboration between Q1 and Q2 is greatly appreciated 🙂

Thank you

[Community Alums · Accepted solution]

Hi @Valqe ,

You should be able to get more insights and help to plan your entities watching this video : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItB7LkVqstw