Health Log Analytics Overview dashboard
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Summary of Health Log Analytics Overview dashboard
The Health Log Analytics Overview dashboard utilizes Performance Analytics to track historical data trends and generate regular reports. It provides insights into automated actions triggered by IT alerts, incident reduction rates, and the prevention of escalations due to Health Log Analytics. Note that this feature is set for future deprecation, and users should transition to the HLA Operational dashboard for continued support.
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Key Features
- User Roles: The dashboard requires the roles of evtmgmtadmin for editing and permission management, and evtmgmtoperator for viewing details on alerts and anomalies.
- Indicators: Various performance indicators are available, including:
- Average time to close alerts
- Active streaming endpoints
- Predicted issues based on alerts
- Alerts closed without ITSM tickets
- Cost savings from preventing outages
- Significant alerts
- Alerts with knowledge base articles
- Alerts leading to ITSM tickets
- Alerts compression ratio
- Breakdowns: Allows grouping or filtering of scores for detailed analysis, such as by assignment group.
- Data Visualizations: Reports available include critical alerts score, active alerts score, and impacted application services.
Key Outcomes
By using the Health Log Analytics Overview dashboard, organizations can effectively visualize and track HLA alerts, monitor incident resolution times, and quantify financial savings from proactive incident management. This enables better decision-making and enhances operational efficiency within IT operations management.
The Health Log Analytics Overview dashboard uses Performance Analytics to provide a trend of historical data as well as regular reports. The dashboard helps you understand the number of automated actions triggered by alerts from IT issues, the incident reduction rate, and the amount of escalation Health Log Analytics prevented.
Instead of the Health Log Analytics Overview dashboard, you can use the HLA Operational dashboard. For more information, see HLA Operational dashboard.
Required ServiceNow AI Platform roles
- evt_mgmt_admin
- evt_mgmt_operator
Use cases
| User | Dashboard use |
|---|---|
| evt_mgmt_admin or admin | Edits the dashboard and grants view and share permissions. |
| evt_mgmt_operator or admin | Views the dashboard and details of the records contained in it to visualize and track HLA alerts, anomalies, time required to resolve IT incidents, funds saved, and other relevant information. |
Indicators
Indicators define a performance measurement taken at regular intervals of a business service, an activity, or organizational behavior. These performance measurements result in a series of indicator scores over time. Businesses track these scores to measure current conditions and to forecast trends.
Indicators available in the Health Log Analytics Overview dashboard are:
- Average time between HLA alert occurrence time and alert closed time
- The median time between Health Log Analytics alert occurrence time and alert closed time, measured daily in hours.
This data is presented in the MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) Weekly AVG widget.
- The average number of hours between alert occurrence time and alert closed time of a Health Log Analytics alert.
This data is presented in the MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) widget.
- The median time between Health Log Analytics alert occurrence time and alert closed time, measured daily in hours.
- Active streaming endpoints
- The number of endpoints (IPs, networks, and devices) that are streaming into Health Log Analytics.
This data is presented in the Endpoints Streamed widget.
- HLA alerts with ITSM ticket
- The predicted number of issues based on the number of alerts that led to ITSM tickets.
This data is presented in the Escalations Prevented widget.
- Closed alerts without ITSM ticket
- The weekly number of alerts closed without an ITSM ticket.
This data is presented in the Incident Reduction widget.
- $ saved
- The amount of money, in US dollars, saved by using Health Log Analytics. The model is based on the number of Health Log Analytics alerts marked as significant, with P1 incidents.
This data is presented in the US$ Savings from Predicting and Preventing Critical Outages widget.
- HLA alerts that marked as significant
- The number of Health Log Analytics alerts marked as significant.
This data is presented in the Issues Predicted widget.
- Alerts with KB
- The number of Health Log Analytics alerts with an associated knowledge base article.
This data is presented in the Automation-Ready Alerts widget.
- HLA alerts turned ITSM ticket
- The number of Health Log Analytics alerts with actual iHub invocations.
This data is presented in the Automations Triggered widget.
- Alerts compression ratio
- The number of anomalies that led to Health Log Analytics alerts.
This data is presented in the Noise Reduction widget.
- Active streaming endpoints
- The number of endpoints (IPs, networks, and devices) that are streaming into Health Log Analytics, by Application Service.
This data is presented in the Endpoints Streamed widget.
- Detections.accepted and Alerts.Open
- Indicators used to calculate the Alerts compression ratio.
Breakdowns
Breakdowns enable you to group or filter indicator scores for more detailed analysis, such as to show separate scores for each assignment group.
Breakdowns available in the Health Log Analytics Overview dashboard are:
Streaming Sources Data Input.
Data visualizations
Reports available from the Health Log Analytics Overview dashboard are listed in the following table.
| Title | Type | Source table | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Alerts | Score |
Report Source: Active Alerts Additional condition: Source = Log Analytics, Severity = Critical,Maintenance = false, AND State = not Closed |
The number of critical alerts in your organization from the source Log Analytics. |
| Active Alerts | Score |
Report Source: Active Alerts Additional condition: Source = Log Analytics, Maintenance = false, AND State = not Closed |
The number of open alerts in your organization from the source Log Analytics. |
| Application Services Affected by HLA Alerts | Bar |
[em_alert_bs_status_view] | The number of alerts per severity level. The alerts are grouped by business service in your Configuration Management Database (CMDB). |
| Top 10 Impacted Application Services with Urgent and High Priority | Bar |
Report Data Source: Active Alerts (Maintenance = false AND State = not Closed) Additional condition: Source = Log Analytics AND Priority group in (Urgent, High) |
The services in your CMDB that were impacted the most by urgent and high priority alerts. |