Scan Engine Platform Owner dashboard

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  • Updated October 22, 2025
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    Summary of Scan Engine Platform Owner Dashboard

    The Platform Owner dashboard provides a comprehensive view of the Scan Engine's performance, including trend charts and key metrics that help users monitor code quality and manage technical debt effectively. It is crucial for ServiceNow customers to leverage this dashboard to identify and address unresolved findings and enhance their development processes.

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    Key Features

    • Outstanding Findings: Tracks unresolved issues detected by the Scan Engine.
    • Health Score: Displays the percentage of definition occurrences without findings, calculated as 1 - (F / D) 100.
    • Lines of Code Scanned: Total lines of code analyzed, including all script fields and base system records.
    • In Progress Update Sets: Counts the unfinished update sets being developed.
    • Findings by Impact to Instance: Categorizes findings based on their severity, allowing users to prioritize effectively.
    • Open Findings by Team: Lists findings associated with each team configured in the instance.

    Platform Owner Trend Charts

    • Technical Debt: Estimates the development time required to resolve all findings, customizable by date.
    • Findings by Team: Displays findings categorized by team, state, and category, enabling focused attention on specific areas.
    • Real-Time Preventions: Shows findings corrected during development, with options to customize the timeframe.
    • Findings by File Type: Provides a heatmap of findings, highlighting areas needing attention.
    • Update Sets: Lists update sets across instances for a selected timeframe.
    • Exception Reasons: Tracks exception approval requests by status for each team.
    • Findings by Suite: Classifies findings by category, helping engage relevant process owners.

    Key Outcomes

    Utilizing the Platform Owner dashboard allows ServiceNow customers to monitor the health of their development environment, prioritize findings based on impact, and effectively manage technical debt. This proactive approach ensures improved code quality and streamlined development processes.

    The Platform Owner dashboard includes trend charts and the following overview modules.

    Table 1. Platform Owner dashboard overview
    Information module Description
    Outstanding findings The number of unresolved findings identified by the Scan Engine that have not been addressed.
    Health score

    The health score represents the percentage of definition occurrences used across the platform that did not return any findings. It is calculated as:

    1 - (F / D) * 100

    • F: The number of findings
    • D: The number of definition occurrences which is the total number of times a definition has been executed by the Scan Engine to generate findings.
    Lines of code scanned The total number of lines of code analyzed by the Scan Engine, including all script field code and any scanned base system records.
    In progress update sets The number of unfinished update sets currently being worked on by developers.
    Findings by impact to instance
    • The total findings for the instance, grouped by impact to instance.
    • Impacts to instance range from 1 (minor impact) to 10 (significant impact). You can select a bar on the chart to list the findings for that impact to the instance in a new browser tab.
    Open findings by team All available teams configured on the instance through the Team Leads related list on the Scan Engine Properties page. You can select a team from the list to show their corresponding information in the module and trend charts.
    Note:
    The number next to the team name is the number of open findings held by that team.

    Platform Owner trend charts

    The Platform Owner dashboard includes the following trend charts.

    Table 2. Platform Owner dashboard trend charts
    Chart Description
    Technical debt
    • The amount of development time required to resolve all findings.
    • You can customize the time period using the date selector.
    Technical debt by team
    • A team's total technical debt, represented as the estimated amount of development time required to resolve all team findings.
    • You can configure the teams displayed on this chart in the Scan Engine properties.
    Findings by team
    • The number of findings by team, classified by state and category.
    • Select a number to see the list of findings for that team in a new browser tab.
    Findings by impact to instance
    • Findings listed in order of highest impact to your instance with the lowest time to resolve. Address these findings first to achieve the highest impact with the lowest effort.
    • Select any finding number to view its details in a new browser window.
    Real time preventions
    • The findings that were corrected during development for each team.
    • The default time span for these preventions is 30 days. You can customize time spans using the date selector.
    Real time preventions trend
    • All real-time preventions by a team during the selected time period. A real-time prevention is when the Scan Engine prevents a finding from being saved.
    • You can customize the time period using the date selector.
    Findings by file type
    • A heatmap of findings by file type. Lets you quickly identify development areas that need the most attention.
    • Select a number in a cell to see the full list of violations for that file type/category.
    Update sets
    • A list of update sets on all configured instances for the selected time period.
    • You can customize the time period using the date selector.
    • You can add and configure instances in the My SN Instances related list in the Scan Engine properties.
    Exception reasons The number of exception approval requests by status for each team.
    Findings by suite
    • The number of findings by category, classified by suite.
    • Lets you identify findings within top-level suites and engage the relevant process owners.
    • Select a table entry to view the list of findings for that category in a new browser tab.

    Platform Owner dashboard data sources

    The following tables show the data source for each module and trend chart in the Platform Owner dashboard.
    Note:
    All components require either the impact.admin or impact.platform.owner role to use.
    Table 3. Platform Owner overview data sources
    Component Data Source
    Outstanding findings sn_se_scan_result
    Health score sn_se_scan_result
    Lines of code scanned sn_se_scan_result
    In progress update sets sn_se_scan_result
    Findings by impact to instance sn_se_summary_scan_detail
    Open findings by team sn_se_summary_scan_detail
    Table 4. Platform Owner trend chart data sources
    Component Data Source
    Technical debt sn_se_summary_scan_detail
    Technical debt by team sn_se_summary_scan_detail
    Findings by team
    • sn_se_summary_scan_detail
    • sn_se_summary_resolved_detail
    • sn_se_findings
    Findings by impact to instance sn_se_summary_scan_detail
    Real time preventions sn_se_onsubmit_prevention
    Real time preventions trend sn_se_summary_scan_detail
    Findings by file type sn_se_summary_scan_detail
    Update sets
    • sn_se_scan_result
    • sn_se_my_sn_instances
    Exception reasons sn_se_exception_reason
    Findings by suite sn_se_summary_scan_detail