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title: "The Incidents Tab"
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New Incident Console

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See the New Incident Console documentation to learn more.

Incident information in BigPanda can be managed from a centralized location in the Incidents tab within the UI. You can organize, assign, investigate, and escalate incidents as necessary to facilitate a quick resolution.

The Environments pane organizes your incidents by environment, group, and status. Within the Incident Feed, you can easily see all of the incidents within a chosen environment, or search for incidents. The Incident Details pane provides information about a specific incident from the Incident Feed.

For more information about Incidents, see the Incidents in BigPanda documentation.

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The Incidents Tab

Field	Description	Related Links
1 - Environments Pane	Lists the Environments and folders that you can use to filter the incident feed.	Manage Environments
2 - Incident Feed	Provides a consolidated view of related incidents. You can filter the incident feed by searching or by selecting an Environment and a folder.	Incident Feed
3 - Incident Details	Shows detailed information about the incident selected in the incident feed. You can view details of the related alerts, view the incident life cycle on a timeline, and more.	Incident Details

Environments Pane

Environments filter incidents on properties such as source and priority and group them together for easy visibility and action. Environments make it easy for your team to focus on the incidents relevant to their role and responsibilities. Environments can be used to filter the incident feed, or to create dashboards, set up sharing rules, and simplify incident search.

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The Environments Pane

Field	Description	Related Links
1 - Environment Filter	Allows you to filter the Environments pane by folder or group.	Environments
2 - Starred Environments	Environments that were starred appear at the top of the pane.	Environments
3 - Environment Groups	Environment Groups organize your environments by common functions or properties, for example, business services, teams, and infrastructure areas.	Manage Environment Groups
4 - Environment Folder	Each environment is pre-sorted into status folders: Active, Unhandled, Shared, Snoozed, and Resolved. Incidents that fit the environment rules will be automatically placed in their respective status folder(s).	Environments
5 - Create a New Environment	Click the + New Environment button to add a new Environment.	Create New Environments

Incident Feed

The incident feed provides a consolidated view of all active incidents from any integrated monitoring systems. After you’ve configured your integrations, you can use the incident feed to manage your incidents.

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The Incident Feed

Field	Description	Related Links
1 - Incident Search	Used to search for incidents.	Search Incidents BigPanda Query Language
2 - Status Indicator	Displays a colored ribbon on the left to indicate the incident status, which is determined by the most severe status of the related alerts.	Incidents in BigPanda
3 - Number of Active Alerts	Counts the number of related alerts that are in the Critical or Warning state.	Incidents in BigPanda
4 - Priority	Assigned level of importance (most important on top). Incidents that do not have a priority assigned will be listed at the bottom by Last Changed.	Triage Incidents
5 - Primary property	Shows why the alerts are correlated into an incident. By default, the primary property is defined as one of the following: host, service, application, or device.	Primary_Property
6 - Secondary property	Summarizes the subjects (such as hosts or applications) that are part of the incident. By default, the secondary property is defined as one of the following: check or sensor.	Secondary_Property
7 - Last change, Created, or Duration	Shows information relevant to the current sort order. You can point to it to see more specific information. See Sorting Incidents.	Incidents in BigPanda
8 - Incident Actions	The action icons allow you to resolve, snooze, comment on, or share an incident.	Triage Incidents Remediate Incidents

Incident Details Pane

The Incident Details pane provides a comprehensive view of all information related to an incident. Use the Incident Details pane to view incident history and take action on incidents.

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The Incident Details Pane

Field	Description	Related Links
1 - Assign Incident	Allows you to assign or update the owner of the incident.	Assign an Incident
2 - Incident Actions	Provides access to the available actions for an incident, such as Resolve, Snooze, Comment, and Share.	Triage Incidents Remediate Incidents
3 - Status Indicator	Displays a colored ribbon on the left to indicate the incident status, which is determined by the most severe status of the related alerts.	Alert/Incident Status Incident Feed Incident Life Cycle Logic
4 - Priority	Allows you to view or change the priority of the incident.	Prioritizing Incidents
5 - Primary property	Shows why the alerts are correlated into an incident. By default, the primary property is defined as one of the following: host, service, application, or device.	Primary_Property
6 - Secondary property	Summarizes the subjects (such as hosts or applications) that are part of the incident. By default, the secondary property is defined as one of the following: check or sensor.	Secondary_Property Incident Feed
7 - Timeline	Allows you to visualize the life cycle of an incident on a timeline, which helps you understand how the incident has unfolded.	Incidents in BigPanda Incident Life Cycle Logic
8 - Expand	Allows you to expand the incident details pane to single pane view.	Incidents in BigPanda
9 - Tabs	The Overview tab, Alerts tab, Topology tab, Changes tab, and Activity tab are accessible from the center of the Incident Details screen.	Incidents in BigPanda

Timeline

The Timeline

The timeline view is accessed within the Incident Details pane. On the right side of the pane, click the blue Timeline button. The timeline visually displays incident information and changes over time. It also shows the time when the first alert was received (incident start time) and the time when the incident was resolved (incident end time), or the current time if the incident is still active.

To see the complete details for an alert at any point in its life cycle, click a dot on the timeline. Then, click the arrows to step through the details of every status change for the alert.

Item	Description	Related Links
Incident Status	Displays a colored ribbon on the left to indicate the incident status, which is determined by the most severe status of the related alerts. The timeline displays a maximum of 70 status changes at a time.	Alert/Incident Status Incident Feed Incident Life Cycle Logic
No. of Alerts	Counts the total number of alerts that the incident contains, regardless of the current status of the alerts.	Incident Life Cycle Logic Manage Alert Correlation
System	Shows the type of monitoring tool (such as Nagios or Zabbix) and the integration name (such as Production) that the events came from.	Incident Feed Integrate with BigPanda
Primary Property	Shows why the alerts are correlated into an incident. By default, the primary property is defined as one of the following: host, service, application, or device.	Timeline Manage Alert Correlation Incident Titles
Secondary Property	Summarizes the subjects (such as hosts or applications) that are part of the incident. By default, the secondary property is defined as check or sensor.	Timeline Manage Alert Correlation Incident Titles
Last Change	Calculates the amount of time since the last change to the incident. This calculation includes status changes on related alerts and the addition of new alerts to the incident.	Incident Feed
Timeline	Shows the history of status changes for every alert that the incident contains. Each row represents the history for an individual alert.	Timeline Manage Alert Correlation
Status Change	Displays a colored dot that represents a status change for the related alert. Click a dot to view the alert details at the time of the status change. Then, click the arrows to step through the details of every status change for the alert.	Timeline Incident Life Cycle Logic
Alert List	Lists basic information about each alert that the incident contains, including a colored dot on the left to indicate the current status of the alert. The Timeline displays a maximum of 35 unique alerts at a time.	Timeline Manage Alert Correlation
Current Statuses	Counts the number of related alerts that are in each of the current states: Critical, Warning, Ok (resolved), and Ack (acknowledged or maintenance).	Incident Life Cycle Logic Alert/Incident Status
Incident Start Time	Shows the time when the earliest alert was received.	Timeline Incident Life Cycle Logic
Incident End or Current Time	Shows the time when the incident was resolved (incident end time) or the current time if the incident is still active.	Timeline Incident Life Cycle Logic

Navigate the Alerts Tab

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The Alerts Tab

Click any alert within the table to view additional details. The details that appear can be configured by your BigPanda administrator. See Manage Alert Views for information on tailoring the alert view.

Item	Description	Related Links
No. Of Active Alerts	Counts the number of related alerts that are in the Critical or Warning state. Click the checkbox to view only Active alerts.	Incident Details
No. of Maintenance Alerts	Counts the number of related alerts that are associated with a Maintenance Plan. Click the checkbox to view only Maintenance alerts.	Manage Planned Maintenance
No. of Resolved Alerts	Counts the number of related alerts that have been Resolved. Click the checkbox to view only Resolved alerts.	Remediate Incidents
Split	Multiple incident alerts can be split off and handled as a new incident.	Split Incidents
Status Indicator	Displays a colored dot on the left to indicate the current status of a related alert.	Incident Details
Link	Displays a clickable link icon if the alert contains any links to more information, such as runbooks or time-series metrics.	Incident Details
System	Shows the type of monitoring tool (such as Nagios or Zabbix) and the integration name (such as Production) that the events came from.	Incident Details Integrate with BigPanda
Alert Data	Displays the data for each related alert in a table. The column headers show the tag names and the rows show the tag values. You can drag the center divider to resize the incident feed, and columns are added, removed, or resized dynamically as space allows.	Incident Details
Duration	Shows the amount of time since the first event for each alert.	Incident Details
Last Change	Shows the time of the last status change for each alert.	Incident Details

Topology Tab

The Topology Tab

The Topology tab within the Incident Details pane provides access to the Topology graph for the incident. The Topology graph is a customizable visual display of the links between the incident's alert tags, or nodes.

The Topology Graph

Each node on the topology graph represents an alert’s tag value. The tags present in the incident are labeled by type and displayed as icons in the Topology graph.

The numbers in the corners of the nodes indicate the frequency with which each unique tag and value appears in the incident. The more times a tag appears, the higher the likelihood that it’s a contributor to the root cause of the incident.

The lines connecting the nodes in the graph indicate that the linked nodes appear in the incident’s alerts together. Examining nodes with the most links can provide valuable insight into the possible root cause of the incident.

The Topology Graph

By default, BigPanda connects all the correlation tags into a circle. All the primary tags (ie: host) are connected to their associated correlation tags and the secondary tags (ie: check) are connected to their primary tags.

API Configuration Override

Customizing the graph using the Topology UI API will override BigPanda's default configuration.

Topology Graph Icons

The default icons that comprise the Topology graph are permanent and pre-defined by BigPanda. Additional configurable fallback icons are provided to allow users to define their own custom nodes.

The following are the nine permanent icons provided by BigPanda to represent the Topology node tag types:

Icon

Type

Associated Tags

server

'server', 'servers', 'host', 'hosts', 'hostname', 'hostnames', 'host_name', 'host_names', 'device', 'devices', 'instance', 'instances', 'object', 'objects', 'node', 'nodes'

location

'location', 'locations', 'datacenter', 'datacenters', 'dc', 'store', 'stores', 'site', 'site_code', 'store_id', 'region', 'regions', 'city', 'country', 'geo'

check

'check', 'checks', 'trigger', 'triggers', 'alert_type', 'alert_name', 'health_rule', 'summary', 'monitor', 'health_rules', 'title', 'titles'

environment

'environment', 'environments', 'env', 'envs', 'tier', 'tiers', 'stage'

application

'application', 'applications', 'app', 'apps', 'service', 'services', 'business_service'

'ip_address', 'ipaddress', 'ipaddresses', 'ip_class_b', 'ip_class_c', 'ip'

router

'router', 'routers', 'switch', 'switches', 'hub', 'repeater', 'bridge', 'gateway'

cluster

'rack', 'cluster', 'clusters', 'tower', 'towers'

team

'owner', 'owners', 'team', 'teams', 'group', 'groups', 'assignment_group', 'responsible_group'

Filter

Topology Filters

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The node filtering options at the top of the Topology tab can be used to show/hide the nodes in the graph according to their corresponding tag type. The numbers beside the nodes in the filter represent the frequency with which the node appears in the topology graph.

Navigate the Changes Tab

Advanced Insight Module

This feature is part of the Advanced Insight Module. If your organization has not purchased this module, you may not have access to the feature.

If you are interested in upgrading to the Advanced Insight Module, contact your BigPanda account team.

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The Changes Tab

The change table contains columns that provide background information on the change.

Column	Description
Status	The status of the change can be Planned, In Progress, Done. Canceled changes persist in BigPanda but are not displayed in the change table.
Key	The key is the original ID from the integrated change. Click the hyperlinked change ID in the Key column of the table to view changes in the external change feed.
Summary	A short description of the change.
Start Time/End Time	The timestamps marking the duration of the change.
Root Cause	Changes that may be a suspected or matched root cause of the incident can be marked manually.

You are able to change the size and order of the columns within the change table. Hover over the space between column names to bring up the dividing line or the 6 dots.

To resize a column, click and drag the dividing line to the desired column width
To move a column, click and drag the 6 dots icon to the desired column placement

Show Potential RCC Only Toggle

Use the Show potential RCC only toggle to limit the change table to only show changes BigPanda has found highly correlated with the incident.

Click on any one of the changes in the table to see a pop-up with the full list of tags and other data associated with the change.

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Change Info - BigPanda Suggestion

If the BigPanda change correlation algorithm marked the change as a suspected match, it will include a note about why the algorithm suspects the change. Hover over the information icon beside the note to get more details about why BigPanda suspects that change.

Suspect Changes

BigPanda will only mark changes as Suspect (and not Match) to give users the final say on whether or not the change is the root cause of the incident.

Activity Tab

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The Activity Tab

The Activity tab within the Incident Details pane provides information about activities that occurred within an incident. Within this tab, you can view and add comments, see previous incident actions, and view status changes such as flapping, resolve, reopen, and auto-resolution.

Recent Activities

Only the 1000 most recent activities appear in the BigPanda UI. If an incident has more than 1000 activities, all of them can be retrieved using the Get Activities API.

Item	Description	Related Links
Hide Status Activities	Allows you to hide Resolved, Reopened, and Flapping activities.	Incidents in BigPanda
Comment Field	Allows you to comment on the incident. Comments are added as events in the activity feed.	Comment on Incidents
Event Indicator	Displays an icon beside each item in the event list to indicate the type of event. See Event Indicators below for a description of each icon.	Incidents in BigPanda
Username	Shows the user who made the update, if applicable.	Viewing Incident and Alert Details
Event Time	Shows the exact time the event occurred.	Incidents in BigPanda
Event Type	Shows the type of event that occurred.	Incidents in BigPanda
Event Details	Shows more information about the event, depending on the event type. For example: For sharing events, shows the channel, recipients, and annotation, if applicable. If the recipient is an external ticketing system, provides a link directly to the ticket (for example, a JIRA ticket). For snoozed events, shows the ending time of the snooze period. For comment events, shows the comment text.	Share Incidents Manage AutoShare
Day Separator	Indicates the day the preceding events occurred, if the list of events spans more than one calendar day. Because the event list is sorted with the most recent event on top, the day separator appears below the events that occurred on a given day.	Incidents in BigPanda

Event Indicators

Incident Actions

Incident Actions Icons

Incident Action	Icon
Manually Resolved	Green checkmark
Shared	Blue arrow
AutoShared	Blue double arrows
Commented	Yellow dialog box
Snoozed	Yellow bell
Assigned	Grey bust with plus
Merged	Blue many to one arrow
Split	Blue one to many arrows

Status Changes

Status Change Icons

Incident Action	Icon
Created	Orange dot
Resolved	Green dot
Reopened	Orange dot
Flapping	Orange and green dots

RCC

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RCC Activity Icons

Incident Action	Icon
Marked Change	Purple dot

Incident Tags

Incident Tags Activity Icons

Incident Action	Icon
Updated a Multi-select Field	Grey bullet point lines
Updated a Single String Field	Grey paragraph lines

Next Steps

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