Insights and Opportunities for Incident dashboard

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  • Updated June 4, 2026
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    Summary of Insights and Opportunities for Incident dashboard

    The Insights and Opportunities for Incident dashboard in Service Operations Workspace provides service desk and incident managers with a comprehensive, unified view of incident trends, SLA compliance, sentiment analysis, and operational patterns. It enables data-driven decision-making by aggregating incident data across multiple dimensions and time ranges. The dashboard supports identifying recurring issues, monitoring service delivery, and improving overall incident management.

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    Key Features

    • Two primary views:
      • Dashboard view: Displays organization-wide incident analytics for the selected time period, including incident volume, SLA status, sentiment trends, and operational patterns.
      • Trend category view: Focuses on a specific incident trend category selected from the Incident trends table, providing detailed analytics and an AI-generated natural language summary.
    • Dashboard view widgets include:
      • Incident volume over time with period comparisons
      • SLA compliance status (on track vs. breached)
      • AI-inferred incident sentiment trends
      • Incident trends clustered by recurring themes
      • Top departments by incident volume
      • Geographic distribution of incidents
      • Incident submission channels (phone, self-service, email, chat)
      • Incident volume by business criticality of affected services
      • Top configuration item classes associated with incidents
      • Assignment groups with high reassignment counts
    • Trend category view enhancements:
      • AI-generated summary identifying issues and probable causes
      • Metrics such as total incidents, average Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR), SLA breaches, and reassignments within the selected trend
      • Breakdowns by incident priority, category, department volume, and MTTR by assignment group
      • Listing of SLA-breached open incidents and associated individual incident records for detailed review
    • Interactive drill-down capability: Users can select visualizations to access detailed incident records and deeper analytics.

    Key Outcomes

    • Provides a holistic operational view to monitor incident trends and SLA performance across the organization.
    • Enables identification of recurring incident patterns and root causes to prioritize remediation efforts.
    • Supports targeted analysis of specific incident categories with AI-generated insights to guide action plans.
    • Facilitates continuous service improvement by tracking critical metrics such as sentiment trends, reassignment frequency, and MTTR.
    • Helps optimize resource allocation by highlighting top departments, assignment groups, and impacted services.

    The Insights and Opportunities for Incident dashboard in Service Operations Workspace gives service desk managers and incident managers a unified view of incident trends, SLA compliance, sentiment, and operational patterns to support data-driven decisions.

    The Insights and Opportunities for Incident dashboard aggregates incident data across multiple dimensions, giving service desk managers and incident managers the context to identify patterns, address recurring issues, and improve service delivery. The dashboard is available in Service Operations Workspace and updates based on the selected date range. Select any visualization to drill down into the underlying incident records.

    The dashboard has two primary views:

    • Dashboard view — Displays organization-wide incident analytics across all incidents in the selected period. Use this view to monitor support demand, SLA performance, sentiment, and other operational patterns.
    • Trend category view — Displays analytics scoped to a selected incident trend category. Access this view by selecting a row in the Incident trends table. The view includes an AI-generated summary, key metrics, and detailed analytics scoped to the selected trend category.

    Dashboard view

    The dashboard view provides a broad operational picture across all incidents. It includes the following widgets:

    Incident volume
    Incident volume over time, with a period-over-period comparison.
    SLA status
    Incidents on track vs. breached against SLA targets.
    Incident sentiment trend
    AI-inferred sentiment scores over time.
    Incident trends
    Incident trend categories, clustered by recurring themes. Select a row to open the trend category view.
    Top departments
    Departments with the highest incident volume.
    Geographic distribution of incidents
    Incident concentration by location.
    Channel distribution
    Incidents by submission channel, such as phone, self-service, email, and chat.
    Services by business criticality
    Incident volume by the business criticality of the affected service.
    Top configuration item classes
    CI classes by number of associated incidents.
    Top assignment groups with high reassignment count
    Assignment groups by total reassignments.

    Trend category view

    The trend category view includes all Dashboard view widgets scoped to the selected trend category, plus the following:

    AI-generated summary
    Natural language summary of the selected trend category, including identified issues and probable causes.
    Total incidents
    Total incidents in the selected trend category within the selected date range.
    Average MTTR
    Average mean time to resolve (MTTR) for incidents in the selected trend category.
    SLA breached incidents
    Incidents in the selected trend category that have breached their SLA targets.
    Total reassignments
    Total reassignments across all incidents in the selected trend category.
    Incident priority breakdown
    Incidents in the selected trend category by priority level.
    Top categories
    Incidents in the selected trend category by category.
    Top 10 departments by volume
    Incident volume by department, broken down by state.
    Top assignment group by MTTR
    MTTR trends by assignment group for the selected trend category.
    SLA-breached open incidents
    Open incidents in the selected trend category that have breached their SLA targets.
    Associated incidents
    Individual incidents that make up the selected trend category, available for detailed review.
    Note:
    The AI-generated summary may not reflect all details of the trend category. Review the associated incident records to verify accuracy before taking action.