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Top Event Producers tile

The Top Event Producers tile displays the entities that have the greatest number of event instances reported against them during the current time period, in descending order. The tile displays entity names, the total count of event instances, and a heat map.

  • Each entity name in a tile is a link to the entity's Smart View page.
  • The total count is the deduplicated count.
  • The heat map represents the distribution of event occurrences during the current time period.

Example tile

Tile configuration options

Tile title
The text that appears in the upper-left corner of a tile.
Filters

One or more comparisons that select events to include in a tile. Events that do not match all comparisons are excluded.

You can specify the following fields in comparisons. If you specify the same field multiple times, the field values are combined.

Field Description
Status One or more event statuses (Open, Suppressed, or Closed).
Severity One or more event severity levels (Critical, Error, Warning, or Info).
Summary Text included in an event summary.
Parent entity name The name of an entity's parent entity.
Name The name of an event.
Last seen Date and time the event was last seen.
Entity name The name of an entity associated with an event.
Event class The name of a class associated with a event. You can associate class names with an event when you create it and when you map it.
Source The instance identifier of a source type, for example, cz0.
CZ production state A Collection Zone production state name (Production, PreProduction, Test, Maintenance, or Decommissioned).
CZ location The name of the Collection Zone Locations organizer to which an entity associated with an event belongs.
CZ groups The name of the Collection Zone Groups organizer to which an entity associated with an event belongs.
CZ systems The name of the Collection Zone Systems organizer to which an entity associated with an event belongs.
CZ priority The Collection Zone device priority associated with an event (Highest, High, Normal, Low, Lowest, or Trivial).
CZ device class The Collection Zone device class associated with an event.
CZ incident Include or exclude events that have been opened as incidents in an external workflow system. This field is only relevant if your Collection Zone includes the Incident Management Integration Service ZenPack.
Count

The maximum number of entities to include in a tile.

If the number of entities displayed in a tile is less than the value specified in this field, the list expands to fill the available space.

Types

(Optional) The types of entities to include in a tile.

You can include multiple types. Essentially, this is a sub-query of the dashboard's scope.

Label format
The content to include in the text accompanying each event count.
Tile scope filters

(Optional) Create a specific filter just for the tile. This is useful if you need to compare different services side-by-side. For example, maybe you want to compare the performance of your services in different regions.

Use the query builder to create and apply a filter to the tile:

  1. Click the + (plus sign) to add a clause.

  2. To define the clauses, click in the first field to select an entity field. This field offers suggestions based on the user-friendly names in the Dictionary or from live data in your system.

  3. Select your operator, then select your value. Start typing in the value field for autosuggestions based on your selected entity field.

  4. To add another simple clause or add a compound clause, use the buttons in the top of your query. To remove all the clauses, click the X button in the top of the query.