Map visualization

The BVQ Systems health map is a compact visualization of your systems' health status in form of a sunburst chart. Each section of this layered donut chart shows either a group of states in the inner rings or system checks on the outer edge ring.

The status level of a group or check is visualized in colors similar to traffic lights:

• OK
• INFO
• WARN
• ERROR

A group's status level is always propagated from the subordinated groups or checks with the worst status level.

All system checks are based on BVQ Alert rules and their calculated result delivers the status level for the map. Therefore the Systems health map is a valuable extension of our cherished Alerting feature and awards its maximum flexibility and a familiar user experience.

You can interactively drill down from groups to their details like alert rules and affected objects. Click on a group section to see more details of subsections and the contained Alert rules. You can also move backwards.

Drill down capabilities

On the right side of the map, there are two additional areas:

• The top one shows a pie chart with the distribution of status levels across all contained objects of a group or Alert rules. The more red you see here the more critical your issue is.
  
  

• The lower one shows a button row and a table containing affected objects. This area is only filled when an Alert rule is selected on the outer edge ring.

  • The buttons in the upper row lead to the following functions:

    Info	Single Alert rule overview
    ✎ Edit	Alert rule editor
    	Help text of the Alert rule

  • The table shows all objects and their levels affected by the selected Alert rule. The inline buttons lead to:

    Info	Single Object Alert level overview
    Eye	Exclude this Object from all maps

Time travel

Current state is not enough! How were the states yesterday? Last week? Did I miss a critical state change?

On top of the map panel you can choose a time period of interest.

• The maps always show the aggregated worst state in the selected time period.
• “Autoplay” will keep the maps up to date with respect to the prior selected timeframe.
• The default timeframe is set to one hour.

Predefined alert rules

This type of rules is new in BVQ 6.0. Internally it is still based on classic Alert rules introduced with BVQ v5.5 but they are simplified with the objective to be most easy to activate and adjustable with an acceptable reduction of flexibility.

~ 150 of them come preconfigured with your BVQ installation and are ready to go: In most cases you just need to turn them on.

You can set an optional notification method for all checks in a given category.

We have chosen the preconfigured thresholds according to best practices but you can adjust them individually.

Custom alert rules integration

For a maximum of configuration flexibility, you can optionally select a category for any of your custom alert rules, no matter if they are created by the template or advanced editor. With that, you can integrate your own rules at any place in the maps or extend them with your own categories.

Object Status Exclusion

Is your Health map red due to known problems? To get it green, you can exclude unwanted Alert results for any object in question.

If you want an object to be effective in the health maps again, just go to the Alerting results > Excluded Tab and re-include this object again:

Systems health map in Expert GUI

Health map states are also present in the Expert GUI, to support deeper interactive
analysis and drill down:

• Use Treemap Coloring > Alerting > Object specific > Overall to color the Treemap's plates.
  This will give you a quick and filterable overview of affected objects.
  
  
• Open an object’s detail pane for detailed status information.
  Current states of all System checks and other active Alert rules will show up here.

Worst Alert level history charts

No longer miss a critical event!

Du to the new worst level aggregation capabilities of the new System health maps feature, we can now offer a major enhancement for the classic Alert rule history charts shown in the Alerting results overviews.

Alert level history charts “per Alert rule” or “per Object” now respect all state changes in a displayed interval.

Example: Chart showing the past 4 hours Alert level history of an Alert rule:

• Here, one bar is shown all 30 minutes representing
  the objects’ worst Alert level of the past 30 minutes before.
• The counter values show the number of objects
  affected by this Alert rule and level.
• The bar at 13:25 shows the time from 12:55 to 13:25:
  • 45 objects affected by this Alert rule in total
  • 6 objects reached or stayed at a worst level of “Error”
  • 2 objects reached or stayed at a worst level of “Warn”
  • 37 objects stayed at level of “OK”

In older BVQ versions, a bar only represented the last Alert level change before its point in time and ignored all other changes since its forgone bar. So an “Error” in “OK → Error → OK” transitions was hidden between two green bars.