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Insights Operations Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to BigFix Insights. Learn the concepts, terminology, and how to get started with using the feature.
BigFix Insights Change Log
This topic lists out the change log in BigFix Insights.

Insights Operations Guide
Read this guide for an introduction to BigFix Insights. Learn the concepts, terminology, and how to get started with using the feature.
- Version History
- Introduction
  BigFix Insights is an application-driven extract, transform, and load (ETL) that helps you consolidate all the BigFix data into a single data warehouse.
- Working with datasources and sites
  This section describes in detail about adding, deleting, and editing a datasource in BigFix 10 Insights. Datasource represents an existing BigFix Enterprise (BFEnterprise) database containing Fixlets, analyses, computers, sites, and results that Insights uses to visualize important data across your organization. Multiple datasources can be added to Insights to consolidate and correlate data for endpoints spread across multiple BigFix Enterprise Servers. In each datasource, individual sites can be added or excluded for use in BigFix Insights. Matching sites across multiple datasources are represented as a Linked Item in Insights. Each deployment of bigfix has a unique identifier that we use internally to differentiate between datasources you might consume with insights. That identifier is the ActionsiteEpoch. At present, we support a single datasource per BFEnterprise installation.
- Working with Linked Items
  Learn more about Linked Items in BigFix 10 Insights.
- Scheduling an ETL
  The ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process pulls data from a datasource and stores it in the Insights' database. An ETL process may consume significant time and resources and hence it is run on a customizable schedule to minimize disruption. In BigFix Insights, you can schedule an ETL daily, weekly, or monthly and also determine the history of an ETL for a datasource and a set of ETLs for all datasources.
- Working with activities history
  This topic describes how to view the activities history and export the logs.
- Updating WebUI
  Learn how to update the BigFix Insights WebUI application.
- Power BI Reports
  Microsoft Power BI Desktop is a tool that helps you present the data that BigFix generates in a meaningful and comprehensible way. You can add an existing Power BI Report to your BigFix Insights implementation.
- Tableau Workbooks
  Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server are powerful tools that help you present the valuable data that BigFix generates in a meaningful and ingestible way. This chapter describes how to add an existing Tableau Workbook to your BigFix Insights implementation.
- Adding and editing custom attributes
  This topic describes how to create, edit and delete custom attributes.
- Insights schema
  The tables in this section provide detailed information about the BigFix 10 Insights schema.
- Best practices
  Learn more about the best practices in BigFix 10 Insights.
- BigFix Insights Troubleshooting
  This topic helps you in troubleshooting various issues encountered in BigFix 10 Insights.
- BigFix Insights Change Log
  This topic lists out the change log in BigFix Insights.

BigFix Insights Change Log

This topic lists out the change log in BigFix Insights.

January 2022 Release – Insights 10.0.8

Fixes various bugs and defects
- Fixes issues with the insights_table_metrics table population where duplicate key was possible
- Fixes issues with tracking sequences for new entities
- Fixes issue with Custom Attributes that would overwrite existing entries with the same name
- Fixes issue with etl_metrics - adding support for binary type columns
- Fixes issue where datasource_fixlets was not accurately setting hidden for custom content
Added features
- Site inclusion changes from excluded to included now cause a last_sequence reset for all entities associated with this datasource
- Custom Attributes view adds a selected-only filter
- Custom Attributes view adds validation for user input
- Removes possible sensitive data from all future error output.
- datasource_sites now includes operator sites
- [schema change] device_dimensions added colums:
  - agent_type
- [schmea change] datasource_sites added columns:
  - opsite_datasource_user_id
- [schmea change] datasource_fixlets adds columns:
  - user_remote_id
  - creation_time
  - last_modification_time
- [schmea change] added new entities (tables):
  - datasource_baselines
  - datasource_baseline_action_settings
  - datasource_baseline_action_settings_user_groups
  - datasource_baseline_component_actions
  - datasource_baseline_component_action_successes
  - datasource_baseline_component_groups
  - datasource_baseline_components
  - datasource_baseline_fields
  - datasource_baseline_relevances
  - datasource_custom_site_readers
  - datasource_custom_site_writers
  - datasource_device_baselines
  - datasource_external_site_visibilities
  - datasource_fixlet_actions
  - datasource_content_comments
  - datasource_fixlet_relevances
  - datasource_role_group_assignments
  - datasource_role_site_assignments
  - datasource_role_user_assignments
  - datasource_roles
  - datasource_site_users
  - datasource_users
  - etl_entity_inclusions