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Hi,

Why sorting on the information column isn’t available anymore? This is very handy to get a list of services suffering from a same issue type?

What’s the point of suppressing a trivial functionality like this?! Is that (not so) new (but still in a beta state!) so bloated or badly written that even with a 100 (!) display limit such a simple task like this isn’t possible in an acceptable time?

Is it a user desire to get over simplified UI? Or a guideline from a UI specialist of any kind?

Why didn’t I provide feedback on this point sooner? Because the issues with this UI are myriads…

Please explain such design choice or let me know what I’m doing wrong.

Regards,

Hi ​@Stéphane I suppose you are talking about Resource Status menu and “Information” column, right?

The problem is more technical than functional. The output data is stored in a text field in the database. Searching or sorting on this field generates a full scan, which is extremely resource-intensive for the DBMS.

We will work on searching in "long output" and see how to optimize searching on this type of similar data, and perhaps offer to sort its data.


Hi,

Thx for your reply.

We indeed noticed Centreon has become globally very heavy and slow. I’d say since the 21.04. Considering we also monitor more objects, things are becoming quite problematic.
As there was no issue in the past with the old pages I guess the technical problems all arised from the new Resource page. One an even more anoying issue is the 100 hosts/services limit. It is real problem particularly in the “View by host”  where it results in the wrong count of services for the last host of the list being displayed  (or services not displayed when the host is unfolded).
This is sad, not only you published this new interface as the main one, making the current one, which had less issues, obsolete, but also chose not rolling back xhen users, like me, told you it was a very bad thing. I won’t even speak of the fact it is an obvious, I’d even say trivial, good practice that one introduce a new interface like this the other way around: by making the new UI  available as a beta-feature first, only obsoleting the current one afterward.
The only hypothesis I can figure to do such terrible choice is prioritizing  cosmetic considerations over technical consideration. And the only reason for this is prioritizing the marketing departement over engineers. Sure that this is rarely a technician who decides to become customer  in companies…
Sorry if it sounds harsh, to you and I sincerly hope I am wrong, for all kind of reasons.

Have a nice day anyway. Best of luck for the future of Centreon.


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