URL Discovery insights dashboard

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of URL Discovery insights dashboard

    The URL Discovery insights dashboard in the Discovery Admin Workspace provides ServiceNow customers with detailed analytics and data on web domains accessed by managed Windows and macOS devices. This dashboard helps you monitor URL usage patterns and make informed decisions based on usage data collected through the Agent Client Collector for Visibility and ITOM URL Discovery.

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    Prerequisites

    • ServiceNow AI Platform (Australia, Zurich, or Yokohama releases starting with Patch 6)
    • Software Asset Management Professional plugin (com.snc.samp)
    • Agent Client Collector for Visibility - Content (ACC-VC) version 1.8.0 or higher
    • ITOM URL Discovery version 1.1.0 or higher
    • Discovery Admin Workspace version 1.14.0 or higher
    • Enabled data collection with the snaccviscontent.enablefullmonitoring property set to True
    • Required roles: discoveryadmin or admin

    Key Features

    The dashboard extracts data from the Application Domain table and provides several visualizations to help analyze URL access:

    • All visited URLs: Displays a count of all URLs visited across managed devices since a specified date (visible only if Broad discovery is enabled).
    • Top 5 URLs with the most visits: Bar chart showing the five most frequently accessed URLs.
    • Targeted URLs visited by category: Donut chart displaying visits grouped by URL category.
    • Targeted URLs visited list: Lists URLs configured for targeted monitoring, offering domain-level usage metrics such as total page views, accessed time, and distinct user counts. Note these metrics update daily and may not reflect the current day's activity immediately.
    • Other URLs visited (Broad discovery): Displays URLs accessed but not targeted. You can select URLs from this list to add them to your targeted discovery list for monitoring.

    Managing Targeted URLs

    When adding URLs to targeted discovery, you specify the following attributes to categorize and associate the URL with relevant products and services:

    • Internal or External: Defines whether the domain is internal or external (default is External).
    • Category: URL category from predefined entity categories.
    • Product: Software product associated with the domain (optional from version 1.2.1 onwards).
    • Publisher: Publisher of the associated product.
    • Application Service: Application service linked to the domain (required if a product is selected).

    After saving, the URL is added to the targeted discovery list and monitored going forward. Filtering options are available to refine displayed data in both targeted and broad URL lists.

    Practical Value for ServiceNow Customers

    This dashboard enables you to monitor web usage effectively, identify key URLs accessed by managed devices, and categorize them for software asset management purposes. It supports compliance and security efforts by providing visibility into URL access patterns and allows you to map URLs to software products and application services for better asset tracking. The integration with daily aggregation jobs ensures data is refreshed regularly, although current-day activity may have a slight delay.

    The Discovery Admin Workspace URL Discovery insights dashboard displays captured data and analytics for web domains accessed on managed Windows and macOS devices.

    To access the dashboard, navigate to Workspaces > Discovery Admin Workspace > Insights > URL Discovery insights for SAM.

    URL Discovery insights dashboard

    Prerequisites

    Verify that you have the required setup
    • ServiceNow AI Platform: Australia release, Zurich release, or Yokohama release, starting with Patch 6
    • Software Asset Management Professional plugin (com.snc.samp)
    • Agent Client Collector for Visibility - Content (ACC-VC), starting with v1.8.0
    • ITOM URL Discovery, starting with v1.1.0
    • Discovery Admin Workspace, starting with v1.14.0
    Enable the data collection

    Role required: discovery_admin or admin

    Set the sn_acc_vis_content.enable_full_monitoring property to True.

    For more information, see Collect web usage data using Agent Client Collector for Visibility Content.

    Required ServiceNow AI Platform roles

    • discovery_admin
    • admin

    Key features

    The URL Discovery insights dashboard enables you to make data-driven decisions through visualizations. The data is extracted from the Application Domain [sn_acc_vis_content_application_domain] table.

    Select the More options icon (More options icon), then select Refresh to refresh the data for each visualization in this section.

    Table 1. Data visualizations
    Report title Type Description
    All visited URLs Data count Displays the total number of URLs visited across managed devices since a given date.
    Note:
    This data count displays only when Broad discovery is enabled.
    Top 5 URLs with the most visits Bar chart Displays the five URLs with the highest visit counts across managed devices since a given date.
    Targeted URLs visited by category Donut chart Displays the distribution of targeted URL visits grouped by URL category since a given date.
    Note:
    Daily aggregation jobs update domain-level metrics, including total page views and last accessed time. Data may not reflect activity from the current day until the job has run.

    Targeted URLs visited

    This section lists the targeted URLs visited across managed devices since a given date. Targeted URLs are those configured for monitoring in Workspaces > Discovery Admin Workspace > Settings > URL Discovery. For more information, see Discovery Admin Workspace Settings.

    Select a URL from the list to open its domain details page, which displays domain-level usage metrics including total page views, total accessed time, last accessed time, and the number of distinct users.
    Note:
    These metrics are aggregated per domain by the daily aggregation job and may not reflect current-day activity until the job runs.
    Select the filter icon (filter icon) to apply filters to the table.

    Other URLs visited

    The Broad URLs visited list displays URLs accessed on managed devices that aren't in the targeted URLs list and is populated only when broad URL discovery is enabled. The list includes the URL and the number of hits recorded for each domain. To add a URL to your targeted discovery list, select the check box next to the URL and select Add to targeted discovery. In the dialog, enter the following information:
    Table 2. Targeted discovery
    Field Description
    Internal or External Whether the domain is internal or external. The default value is External.
    Category The URL category to assign to the domain. The Entity Categories [sn_acc_vis_content_entity_category] table populates the available categories.
    Product The product associated with the domain. The Software Products [samp_sw_product] table populates the available products.
    Note:
    Beginning with URL Discovery v1.2.1, this field is optional. However, if you select a product, Application Service is set to a required field.
    Publisher The publisher of the product associated with the domain.
    Application Service The application service associated with the domain. The Service Instances [cmdb_ci_service_auto] table populates the available services.
    Note:
    Beginning with URL Discovery v1.2.1, this field is optional unless a Product is selected.

    Select Save to add the URL to the Targeted URL discovery. The URL is then monitored and appears in the Targeted URLs visited tab.

    Select the filter icon (filter icon) to apply filters to the table.

    Note:
    Mapping a SAM product to a URL requires the sam_user role.