Analytics Dashboard

The Analytics Dashboard provides an account-wide overview of historical data and helps you identify areas for improvement and achieve your digital operations goals.

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Availability

The Analytics Dashboard is available on the following pricing plans: Professional, Business, Digital Operations (legacy) and Enterprise for Incident Management. Please contact our Sales team to upgrade to a plan with this feature.

View the Analytics Dashboard

You can find the Analytics Dashboard in the web app's top navigation bar under Analytics Dashboard. The Analytics Dashboard consists of the following sections:

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Data Update Schedule

Data in the Analytics Dashboard updates once per day, and it may take up to 24 hours for new data to appear. A timestamp in the page's upper-right indicates the last update.

Filters and Search

The following filters are available to help you find the most relevant results:

  • Team: Click the Team dropdown and select the tab for My Teams or All Teams. Select the checkbox next your preferred team(s) from the list and optionally enter a search term to narrow results. Click Apply to update the data in the Analytics Dashboard.
  • Escalation Policy: Click the Escalation Policy dropdown and search or select one or more escalation policies. Click Apply to update the data in the Analytics Dashboard.
    • Note: If you have filtered by specific Teams, this filter will automatically populate the escalation policies associated with by the selected Team(s).
  • Service: Click the Service dropdown and search or select one or more services. Click Apply to update the data in the Analytics Dashboard.
    • Note: If you have filtered by specific services (above), this filter will automatically populate services associated with by the selected Team(s).
  • Urgency: Select from All, High or Low to display incidents with the chosen urgency.
  • Priority: Select from All or any of your account’s preconfigured incident priority levels.
  • Date Range: Select from Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, Last Month, This Month, or Custom Range (if you select Custom Range, use the calendar to choose your preferred start and end dates). Click Apply to update the data in the Analytics Dashboard.
    • Note: For custom ranges, you can select a start date up to three years in the past. A maximum duration of one year is allowed.

Over Time

The Over Time section offers a visualization of key incident metrics: Total Incidents, MTTA, MTTR, Interruptions, and Acknowledgement Rate %.

Over Time analytics

Over Time analytics

Over Time Metrics

MetricDefinition
Total IncidentsTotal count of incidents matching the active filters.
MTTAMean time to acknowledge is the average amount of time from when an incident is created until the time the first responder acknowledges an incident. Excludes incidents that were not acknowledged.
MTTRMean time to resolve is the average amount of time from when an incident was created until it was resolved. Excludes incidents that have not been resolved.
InterruptionsInterruptions are when an on-call responder receives a mobile push, phone call notification or SMS (text). Notifications sent from various channels (push, phone, SMS) to the same user count as one interruption.
Ack Rate %Percentage of the total number of incidents which were acknowledged. Only explicit incident acknowledgments count; reassign, resolve, and escalation actions do not imply acknowledgement.

Click View Report in this section to see the Incident Activity report.

Services

The Services section offers a visualization of key metrics, segregated by services, such as the Total Incidents, Uptime, Highest MTTA, Highest MTTR, and Escalations.

Service analytics

Service analytics

Service Metrics

MetricDefinition
Incidents by ServiceTotal count of incidents matching the provided filters, segregated by service.
Uptime by ServiceThe inverse of the time (in %) during which the service had an active major incident, segregated by service.. A major incident is defined as the top two levels of your priority settings, or if multiple responders are added and acknowledge.
Highest MTTA by ServiceHighest mean time to acknowledge matching the provided filters, segregated by Services. MTTA is the average amount of time from when an incident is created until the time the first responder acknowledges an incident. Excludes incidents that were not acknowledged.
Highest MTTR by ServiceHighest mean time to resolve matching the provided filters, segregated by Services. MTTR is the average amount of time from when an incident was created until it was resolved. Excludes incidents that have not been resolved.
Escalations by ServiceTotal count of escalations that occurred for incidents on this service

Click View Report in this section to see the Service Performance report.

Escalation Policies

The Escalation Policies section offers a visualization of key metrics, segregated by escalation policies, such as Interruptions, Highest MTTA, Highest MTTR, and Total Incidents.

Escalation Policies Metrics

MetricDefinition
Interruptions by Escalation PolicyTotal count of interruptions, segregated by Escalation Policies. Interruptions are when an on-call responder receives a mobile push, phone call or SMS (text). Notifications sent from various channels (push, phone, SMS) to the same user count as one interruption.
Highest MTTA by Escalation PolicyHighest mean time to acknowledge matching the provided filters, segregated by Escalation Policies. MTTA is the average amount of time from when an incident is created until the time the first responder acknowledges an incident. Excludes incidents that were not acknowledged.
Highest MTTR by Escalation PolicyHighest mean time to resolve matching the provided filters, segregated by Escalation Policies. MTTR is the average amount of time from when an incident was created until it was resolved. Excludes incidents that have not been resolved.
Incidents by Escalation PolicyTotal count of incidents matching the active filters, segregated by Escalation Policies.

Click View Report button in this section to see the Escalation Policy report.

Teams

The Teams section offers a visualization of key metrics, segregated by teams, such as the Interruptions, Highest MTTA, Highest MTTR and Total Incidents.

Team analytics

Team analytics

Teams Metrics

MetricDefinition
Interruptions by TeamTotal count of interruptions, segregated by Teams. Interruptions are when an on-call responder receives a mobile push, phone call, or SMS (text) notification. Notifications sent from various channels (push, phone, SMS) to the same user count as one interruption.
Highest MTTA by TeamHighest mean time to acknowledge matching the provided filters, segregated by Teams. MTTA is the average amount of time from when an incident is created until the time the first responder acknowledges an incident. Excludes incidents that were not acknowledged.
Highest MTTR by TeamHighest mean time to resolve matching the provided filters, segregated by Teams. MTTR is the average amount of time from when an incident was created until it was resolved. Excludes incidents that have not been resolved.
Incidents by TeamTotal count of incidents matching the active filters, segregated by Teams.

Click View Report in this section to see the Team report.

Responders

The Responders section offers a visualization of key metrics, segregated by responders, such as the Response Effort and Total Incidents.

Responder analytics

Responder analytics

Responders Metrics

MetricDefinition
Response Effort by ResponderThe total engaged time of the responder, measured from the time the responder acknowledges or accepts a responder request, until the incident is resolved.
Incidents by ResponderTotal count of incidents matching the active filters, segregated by Responders.

Click View Report in this section to see the Responder report.

Share the Analytics Dashboard

Click Share Copy Link to copy the dashboard's unique URL to your clipboard, which you can share with others. Signed in users who visit the link will see the same filters applied in their dashboard.

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