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Status Needs more information
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 20, 2025

Console / Dashboard for Vision Automator Health

Systems Admin, and Intellimagic Admin.

It would be great if the windows components that comprise the vision automator would come packaged with a 'console'.  Currently when I want to check status of activities, I need to open my current days log file and scroll to the bottom to see what is currently happening.  If I want to refresh the view, I need to close it and re-open over and over.

Notepad++ provides some capability to stream the data in, but it becomes flooded too quickly to see what is happening.

If the Automator had a console, this could allow us to page through the log in a controlled manner.

Additional value added features would be the ability to look at previous days logs in the tool as well.  Also to filter the log by specific event types (new file found, cleanup, defrags, etc.)

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Jul 17, 2026

    The proposal is to provide a dedicated console for the Vision Automator service that displays log activity in real time, rather than requiring administrators to manually open and refresh raw log files.

    A key feature would be an auto-scroll option. When enabled, the console would automatically follow the latest log entries so users can monitor current processing as it happens. When disabled, users could remain focused on a specific section of the log — for example, while reviewing a failure or warning — without the view constantly jumping to the newest entry.

    In addition, the console would be more valuable if it supported:

    • Access to historical logs, including previous days’ activity

    • Event categorization, such as processing events, warnings, errors, new file detection, cleanup activities, defrags, and similar event types

    • Filtering capabilities, similar to Windows Event Viewer, so users can quickly isolate and review specific types of events

    • A single interface to review and navigate saved logs more efficiently, instead of relying on Notepad or similar text editors

    Overall, the objective is to improve monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency by replacing manual raw-log review with a more structured, searchable, and user-friendly console experience.

    Yash Rojiwadia, CIBC (Idea Author)

  • Guest
    Nov 25, 2025

    Look like good idea :-)