Overview
The Overview page is the first item in the menu, and a workspace opens on it. It is the first thing to read in the morning. It answers one question: is the operation in the state it should be in?
It is built from your own configuration: your alert rules, your zones and their keywords. There is nothing extra to set up. The day you finish writing your rules, the Overview is correct.
Most numbers on the page open the list behind them. If a tile says 2, click it to see which two.
The page refreshes itself about once a minute while it is open, so you can leave it on a screen. The time of the last refresh shows beside the Refresh button. If that time grows old, the numbers on the page are old too.
Until the workspace has its first asset or device, the page shows a short list of setup steps instead.
The asset filters at the top of the page narrow every section to the matching assets: the rule tables, trips and zone movement, and the counts. A filter set on another page is already set here, and a tile you click opens its list with the filter still set.
What needs attention
Two short tables list rules, one row each:
- Rules with open alerts: each rule with open alerts, and how many. An acknowledged alert is still open.
- Rules with notifications: each notification rule that recorded events in the last 24 hours, and how many.
Click a row to open that rule's alerts, or its events, on the Alerts page. Each table also links to the Alerts page: All alerts and All notifications. Above the tables, a line shows how many alerts were raised and how many cleared in the last 24 hours, so you can see whether the team is keeping up.
A workspace with no enabled rule shows how to create or switch on one instead.
When rules are paused
If no tag in the workspace has reported for seven days, rules stop being evaluated, and no new alerts open. The page then shows a Rule evaluation paused warning above the tables. Do not read an empty table as an all-clear. Rules start again by themselves when a tag reports.
What is moving
The pulse of the operation. It tells a quiet page apart from a page whose data has stopped arriving.
- Trips in progress, and trips out and back in the last 24 hours, with a table of the latest finished trips. These tiles count assets, not devices, and only appear in a workspace where an asset has made a trip.
- Zone movement: entries and exits in the last 24 hours for the busiest zone keywords. A workspace with no zone keywords sees its busiest zones instead.
- Detected in the last hour: how many assets reported, and through how many hotspots or devices running the Blecon Agent. If the reporters have gone, nothing looks wrong only because nothing is being detected.
Where everything is
How many assets are in each zone keyword: depot 28, customer 19. This is the answer the map only gives if you count pins.
- Other zones counts assets in a zone that has no keyword.
- In no zone counts assets outside every zone.
- A workspace with no zone keywords sees one tile per zone instead, with a prompt to add keywords.
An asset inside two zones with different keywords (a bay inside a yard) is counted under both keywords. Only the busiest keywords are shown. The Zones page has the full list.
What we can see
The same freshness counts as the Assets page: assets detected in the last 15 minutes, within the hour, within a day, dark (not detected for over a day), never reported, and missing (not detected for seven days). Each opens the Assets page filtered to those assets.
Working with the Overview
- Name your rules in your own words. The tables list rules by name, so "Cage left in a no-leave zone" reads better than "Dwell Time".
- Keyword your zones. The movement and location bands group by zone keyword. Without keywords they fall back to one tile per zone, which stops being readable once you have many zones.
- A large count is a configuration problem, not a work queue. A rule with 1,240 open alerts usually means a rule is targeting more assets than it should. Narrow the rule's keywords rather than working the list.
Related pages
- Alerts: the work queue behind the rule tables
- Notifications: notification-only events, on the Alerts page
- Statistics: the same operation over weeks and months
- Zones: zone keywords
- Assets: the filtered lists the tiles open