The lists of hosts under Monitoring and Data collection are extremely similar. They have some very annoying differences though:
* on one page you can search for hosts with some attributes (such as the templates they use), while you can't on the other.
* on the monitoring page you can click on the host and get easy access to the latest data, etc of a host. The "data collection" list however, shortcuts you to the "host configuration" instead of giving you that dropdown menu.
* if you chose to view certain details about a host, you get moved to the "data collection" page and then need to navigate back to the "monitoring" page to continue what you were doing.
* If you're working on hosts and have to navigate back and forth between the "monitoring" and "data collection" version of the host list, you have to change two different filters for two different pages all the time since the two different pages keep their own state completely separately (there's a related forum post about that issue).
After have been working in this industry for over a decade, got top grades in UI design, been teaching about it at the university ... I really do know what I'm talking about when I say that the UI is horrible. It's also well known why these bad designs happen. I'd gladly help for free, but sadly, you don't have a public bug report page (too much hassle to get in there) . so I'm making a post here instead.
Feel free to bug-report if anyone cares.
Great work and everything overall though.
* on one page you can search for hosts with some attributes (such as the templates they use), while you can't on the other.
* on the monitoring page you can click on the host and get easy access to the latest data, etc of a host. The "data collection" list however, shortcuts you to the "host configuration" instead of giving you that dropdown menu.
* if you chose to view certain details about a host, you get moved to the "data collection" page and then need to navigate back to the "monitoring" page to continue what you were doing.
* If you're working on hosts and have to navigate back and forth between the "monitoring" and "data collection" version of the host list, you have to change two different filters for two different pages all the time since the two different pages keep their own state completely separately (there's a related forum post about that issue).
After have been working in this industry for over a decade, got top grades in UI design, been teaching about it at the university ... I really do know what I'm talking about when I say that the UI is horrible. It's also well known why these bad designs happen. I'd gladly help for free, but sadly, you don't have a public bug report page (too much hassle to get in there) . so I'm making a post here instead.
Feel free to bug-report if anyone cares.
Great work and everything overall though.
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