Insights+

Introduction

Device42 Insights+ provides integrated analytics that leverage the breadth and depth of Device42 discovery to help you make sense of your data through visuals and dashboards so that you can make better, more informed business decisions quickly.

Insights+ identifies patterns, trends, and outliers in data sets across your entire estate, elevating your performance with data understanding.

The combination of automatic discovered data and visualization empowers you and your IT teams with a more accurate understanding of your environment that would take the most senior IT staff years to understand –  which helps reduce the time it takes to restore service, increase the speed of root cause discovery, and better plan for capacity growth.

Note: Additional curated dashboards are available on our Insights+ GitHub page: https://github.com/device42/insights. Follow the instructions on the page to download and import the dashboards.

Using Insights+

• Click on Insights+ in the Device42 main menu to display the Insights+ home page, and then select the visualizations you want to see.

Note: You can also select and display Insights+ dashboards on the Device42 home page.

• Click DBB Cookbook to go to the cookbook documentation pages.
• Click Data Dictionary to see the available Data Building Blocks.
• Click Import to get new or updated dashboards as they become available. (Note you must be a super admin user or have the Feature | Update Insights+ Dashboards permission to import.)
• Click Reports to create or edit email Reports and Alerts.
• Click on a Dashboard to see its charts and graphs. Note that the list of dashboards and charts now appears in the left panel.

• Hover over elements in a chart or graphic to see additional information.

• Many Insights+ dashboards include filters you can use to refine the visualizations to see the information you want. You can collapse the filters to increase the dashboard viewing area.

• You can also refresh or maximize a chart, view the chart query, view it as a table, or download it as an image or as a CSV file.

Email Reports and Alerts

You can create and edit email Reports and Alerts for dashboards or charts that are generated and sent based on a schedule you set for each report or alert. The reports and alerts contain images of the dashboard or chart and links to them in Device42.

• Report content can be either a dashboard or chart, and the report is triggered according to the schedule you set up for the report.
• Alert content can also be either a dashboard or chart, but an alert is based on a condition you define for the alert using an SQL query that runs against a D42 database (d42_viewer_mt). The condition check is triggered according to the schedule you set up for the alert
• Alerts and reports run as the alert or report creator, so they respect the model or RBAC permissions of the user who creates the report.
• Alerts and reports can have have multiple owners (including the creator) who can all modify the alert or report.
• Alerts and reports use the Device42 mail server settings (Tools > Settings > Mail Server Settings) to send alert and report emails – these need to be set for emails to function correctly.

Click Reports at the top right of the Insights+ home page, a dashboard or a chart to display the Alerts & Reports page.

The list page displays existing reports or alerts and include Actions options to view logs and edit or delete the reports or alerts. Click Alerts or Reports at the top left to display the items you want.

Reports

Click + Report to add a new report; click the Edit icon to edit an existing report. Insights+ displays the add/edit page.

• Enter Name for the report, select the report Owners and add a Description if you want. Note that Owners should include the report creator and any other users you want to be able to modify the report.
• The report is Active by default.
• Use the Report schedule drop-downs to set the schedule or enter a CRON schedule.
• You can select or enter Schedule settings for Log Retention and Working Timeout.
• Select either Dashboard or Chart as the Message content, and then use the drop-down to select the specific dashboard or chart you want. Select Ignore cache when generating screen shot to have Insights+ regenerate the dashboard or chart graphic rather than using a cached version.
• Select Email as the Notification method, and then enter the recipient email addresses (separated by commas or semicolons).
• Click Save to save the report.

Alerts

Click + Alert to add a new alert; click the Edit icon to edit an existing alert. Insights+ displays the add/edit page. An alert lets you define an alert condition for the notification, but requires an SQL query to create the condition. The condition test is triggered according to the schedule you set for the alert.

• Enter Name for the alert, select the alert Owner and add a Description if you want. Note that Owners should include the alert creator and any other users you want to be able to modify the alert.
• The alert is Active by default.
• Select the Database to use (this should always be d42_viewer_mt) for the Alert condition and enter the SQL Query for the condition. Select a Trigger Alert If… operator from the drop down, and then select the value for the statement to be used with the SQL query.
• Use the Report schedule drop-downs to set the schedule or enter a CRON schedule.
• You can select or enter Schedule settings for Log Retention, Working Timeout, and Grace Period.
• Select either Dashboard or Chart as the Message content, and then use the drop-down to select the specific dashboard or chart you want. Select Ignore cache when generating screen shot to have Insights+ regenerate the dashboard or chart graphic rather than using a cached version.
• Select Email as the Notification method, and then enter the recipient email addresses (separated by commas or semicolons).
• Click Save to save the alert.

Infrastructure Analysis Dashboard

Build Thoughtful Capacity Management Plans

The Infrastructure Analysis Dashboard provides the data that IT leaders need to understand the distribution of compute workloads across the environment to build thoughtful capacity management plans based on real-world data. This in-depth intelligence is broken down by resource types, highlighting usage across each node.

Location Inventory and Hierarchy Dashboard

Understand the Complexity and Spot Trends

Location Inventory and Hierarchy dashboard gives you an understanding of the complexity of your environment through an aggregate view of where all resources are deployed and the distribution of those resources to easily spot trends and ensure that resources are balanced across locations and initiatives for capacity planning.

Host Impact Dashboard

Balance Compute and Memory Across Hosts with Real-World Data

The Host Impact Dashboard monitors the allocation of compute and memory resources to hosts and displays the aggregate view of host performance across your entire environment. This helps you plan for evenly balanced workloads across hosts by identifying risks associated with oversubscribed hosts and inefficiencies where capacity isn’t being used.

Power Usage Dashboard

Identify Risks Before A Power Interruption

The Power Usage Dashboard provides the potential risks in the event of a power interruption with visibility into the relationship and total dependency of an application from the software to the infrastructure, down to the PDU that is powering the application.

The heat maps help IT professionals understand power utilization capacity and trends, allowing them to make changes to the data centers with the confidence of knowing that they have visibility into all potential risks.

Application Mapping Dashboard

Reduce Mean-Time-to-Repair

The Application Mapping Dashboard provides crucial information for IT teams troubleshooting outages or planning for upcoming changes by providing insights into the complexities of enterprise application environments with visualizations beyond individual applications into the complex multi-app dependency.

This dashboard also provides IT teams with an IT Operational Intelligence view of all mapped and unmapped applications in the environment This helps IT teams understand the completeness of the mapping initiative by ensuring that all applications are mapped and dependencies identified.

Public Cloud Dashboard

Better Manage Public Cloud Consumption

The Public Cloud Dashboard provides crucial insights into cloud consumption across all major cloud providers, helping to untangle cloud bills with insights into the distribution of workloads and resource types that are deployed. This dashboard also provides visibility into the progress of migrations and where IT teams are investing in cloud resources, ensuring that the appropriate cloud resources are being consumed in compliance with company standards.