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Monitoring Sources

The Monitoring Sources Dashboard gives you a deep dive into how BigPanda is interacting with your monitoring tools including alert volumes, actionable alert percentages, and signal-to-noise ratio.

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Dashboard duplication

This dashboard can be duplicated. See the Manage Unified Analytics documentation to learn how to create a new dashboard from a copy.

Key Features

  • Compare monitoring tools to highlight those with highest alert volumes

  • Identify tools that are sending a high number of unactionable alerts

  • Review which statuses are most commonly triggering alerts from each monitoring tool

  • Track signal-to-noise ratio trends over time

Widgets

The following widgets are available in the Monitoring Sources dashboard:

Alert count

Alerts are counted using the following calculation:

Count (Distinct Alert_ID)

Widget

Description

Monitoring Sources by Volume

The percentage of alerts sent by each inbound integration.

Monitoring Sources 30 Day Trend

The number of Critical or Warning alerts sent by inbound integrations per week.

Monitoring Tool Assessment

The flow of alerts from individual monitoring sources to their incident closure within BigPanda. Alerts are classified as either high, medium, or low quality based on the level of BigPanda enrichment for the alert. See Alert Quality for more information.

Monitoring Sources by Status

The number of Critical and Warning alerts sent by each inbound integration.

Self Healed Alerts Trending

The number of alerts that were resolved without operator action within BigPanda per week. The dotted line tracks the trend over the full reporting period.

Next Steps

View Unified Analytics dashboards.

Learn how to Manage Unified Analytics.

Find definitions of Unified Analytics key metrics.

Dive into potential reporting fields in the Standard Data Model documentation.