The Event and Alert Processing dashboard uses Performance Analytics to provide real-time visibility into events and alerts in Event Management.

Event and Alert Processing dashboard.

Prerequisites

  • Ensure that the Event Management application is installed.
  • Activate the daily job, [PA EM] Daily Data Collection, to enable collection of daily Event Management data:
    1. Navigate to All > Performance Analytics > Data Collector > Jobs.
    2. Select [PA EM] Daily Data Collection.
    3. Set to Active.
  • Run the historical job, [PA EM] Historic Data Collection, once to enable partial collection of historical Event Management data:
    1. Navigate to All > Performance Analytics > Data Collector > Jobs.
    2. Select [PA EM] Historic Data Collection.
    3. Select Execute Now.

Required Now Platform roles

  • evt_mgmt_admin
  • evt_mgmt_operator

Access the Events and alerts processing dashboard

To open the dashboard, use one of the following methods:
  • Navigate to All > AIOps Dashboards > AIOps Operational > Events and Alerts.
  • Navigate to Workspaces > Service Operations Workspace and select the AIOps Dashboards icon (AIOps Dashboards icon.).

Use cases

For examples of how different people in your organization would use this dashboard, see these 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 events, alerts, trends, outcomes and the most impacted Configuration Items in your organization.

Breakdowns

Breakdowns available in the Event and Alert Processing dashboard are:

  • Trends
  • Outcomes

Reports

Most impacted Configuration Items

The Configuration Items (CIs) that are most impacted by this IT issue. The CIs are ordered by name, number of alerts, class (for example, application service), location, owner, and support group.