Availability Timeline - Improvements
We stumbled across some parts of the Availability Timeline, which can get very time consuming / annoying and can be easily improved to make it more useable, get quicker results and get a better user experiance
1. Make rows wider - use full screen size!
In the example you can see that column “Last known summary” is stagged.
You can also see that half of the screen ist still empty
(and yes, even with the sidebar there is plenty of space)
Last known Summary (here details of a Process monitored), you want to compare details quickly
Much different if each event has 5 lines for it self comapred to one for example
2. Make Timeline wider - use full screen size!
3. Sorting for every column
Due to character limitation (1000) more details in the comments for the second and third point
Comments: 3
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28 Jun, '22
Daniel Roettgermann2. Make Timeline wider
As you can see in the example, its super dense.
Now the problem is, normally you hover with the mouse over the timeline and it points you to the event.
If its getting more and more dense like in this example, its skipping many of the events in the timeline when you hover over it - as it seems the mouse cant catch the different states
The same here - There is plenty of space to use!
3. Sorting for every colu
As in “nearly” all “parts/areas” you can sort tables. Apparently here you can’t
Take Duration here for example which you wanna sort to find the longest events quickly
Of course its arguable why you want to sort some of the columns, but there are some which will be very helpfull if you could sort them - as right now you need to go a couple of extra miles to get what you need, as your only chance is, to export to CSV, open with another tool, add filters and then start sorting. (with some visual disadvantages - short it costs you lots of extra time outside CMK) -
28 Jun, '22
Daniel RoettgermannThe following are for sure helpful to sort and analyse much quicker your problem/outage without wasting time with other tools (EXCEL for example)
Duration
Last known Summary
Last known Detail -
15 Sep, '23
JakeAdditionally would prefer the default sort order to be descending date. Typical use case is to review most recent activity, not what happened a month ago.
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