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Status Submitted
Workspace AIOps Integrations
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 24, 2025

VMWare integration creates resources that seem identical

The alert view shows an alert group (a group of alerts from the VMWare connector) with the following description:
GROUP (1482 alerts) CD/DVD drive 1 is NOT_CONNECTED
it shows "1 resource" under the resource column.

But actually this is 1482 different DVD drives on 1482 different VMs. Each resource has a unique ID.

Shouldn't the column value for the group say "1482 resources"?

To the extent that this type of interaction is a general problem with multiple integrations (e.g. the same thing could happen with Kubernetes, GCP, or almost any other topology observer) maybe a general solution should be implemented.

My question is: if these are separate resources (they have distinct IDs) and have not been merged, why does the alert view report them as "1 resource"? Is it not using the ID to distinguish them. If it's just using the name, then it is implicitly creating a virtual merge rule that says "if the name is the same then they are the same resource".


Idea priority Medium