Cloud Discovery schedules dashboard in Cloud Discovery Workspace

Release version: Australia

Updated March 24, 2026

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Summary of Cloud Discovery schedules dashboard in Cloud Discovery Workspace

The Cloud Discovery schedules dashboard provides detailed insights into selected discovery runs within the Cloud Discovery Workspace. It presents key metrics such as resource counts, discovery duration, errors, and changes in discovered Configuration Items (CIs). However, note that Cloud Discovery Workspace is deprecated and no longer available for new activations. Customers should use Discovery Admin Workspace for the latest experience.

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Access and Roles

To access the dashboard, navigate through Cloud Discovery Workspace > Cloud Discovery > Schedules. Users require the sncloudopsws.cloudopsadmin role to view and interact with the dashboard.

Key Features

Resource Count Indicators: Displays the total number of CIs discovered, newly discovered CIs, absent CIs compared to the previous run, and discovery errors.
Duration Indicator: Shows the time taken to complete the selected discovery run.
Reports: Includes bar charts for resource counts and time taken across the last 10 discovery runs, sourced from discoverycloudresults and discoverystatus tables.
Filtering and Sorting: Allows filtering discovery schedules by cloud provider or schedule name, and sorting by name, error count, or discovery status.
Selection of Discovery Runs: Users can select from the last 10 discovery runs to visualize detailed data on the Results tab.

Use Cases

The dashboard helps users monitor recent discovery runs by providing:

Counts of resources discovered and errors encountered
Lists of newly discovered and missing CIs compared to previous runs
Insights into discovery run duration

Important Notes

The Newly discovered and Absent from last indicators apply only to pattern-based discoveries.
Only the last 10 discovery runs are available for selection in the reports drop-down list.

The Cloud Discovery schedules dashboard displays information about the selected discovery run.

Important:

Cloud Discovery Workspace is now deprecated and no longer supported or available for new activation. Discovery Admin Workspace provides the latest experience for this functionality. For details, see the Application/Plugin Deprecation Process [KB0867184] article in the Now Support knowledge base.

Required ServiceNow AI Platform roles

sn_cloud_ops_ws.cloud_ops_admin

Access the Cloud Discovery schedules dashboard

To open the dashboard, navigate to Cloud Discovery Workspace > Cloud Discovery > Schedules.

Use cases

For examples of how different people in your organization would use this dashboard, see these use cases.


User	Dashboard use
sn_cloud_ops_ws.cloud_ops_admin	View the resource count from the recent discovery runs. View the time taken for the recent discovery runs. View the list of newly discovered CIs View the list of CIs missing from the previous discovery run. View the count of CIs discovered during the selected discovery run. View the count of discovery errors that occurred during the selected discovery run.

Indicators

Total Resources: The indicator displays the total count of Configuration Items (CI) discovered during the selected discovery run.
Newly discovered: The indicator displays the count of new CIs discovered during the selected discovery run.
Absent from last: The indicator displays the count of CIs missing during the selected discovery run. That is, CIs were discovered during the previous discovery run, but are missing during the selected discovery run.
Errors: The indicator displays the count of discovery errors that occurred during the selected discovery run.
Duration: The indicator displays the time taken to complete the selected discovery run.

Note:

Cloud Discovery calculates the Newly discovered and Absent from last indicators only for the pattern-based discoveries.

Reports


Title	Type	Source table	Description
Resource counts from recent discovery runs	Bar chart	discovery_cloud_results	This report displays the count of CIs discovered during the last 10 runs of the selected discovery schedule.
Time taken for recent discovery runs	Bar chart	discovery_status	This report displays the time taken to complete the last 10 runs of the selected discovery schedule. This report covers both completed as well as canceled discovery runs.

Filters


Name	Type	Description
Schedules filter	Choice-based filter	By default, the list shows all the Cloud Discovery schedules in alphabetical order, regardless of their current running status. Use the schedule filter to filter the Cloud Discovery schedules. You can filter the schedules by cloud provider, schedule name, or both. You can also sort the filtered list by any one of the following criteria: Alphabetically: Sort the schedule names alphabetically. Errors: Sort by the count of errors encountered during the discovery. Discovery in progress: Sort by status of the discovery. After filtering the schedule, select the discovery run from the Report drop-down list to visualize its data in the schedules dashboard displayed on the Results tab. Note: Only the last 10 discovery runs appear in the Report drop-down list.