In the “Server Health” app the status of various services as determined by the “Server Health Plugin” are displayed. Typically the Paglo Crawler will not probe a service, and thus will not report any status for it, if it knows that that device does not offer that service.

However, some services liked DNS, are checked using UDP. This means Paglo can not differentiated between a device actually offering DNS and it not currently working vs that device simply not offering DNS service. In these cases the ‘Server Health’ app will show for every device that the ‘Service Health Check’ plugin is run against that DNS is down. You can tell the ‘Server Health’ app to not consider that service in the list of services that matter for a device, but what if you simply do not want to see it at all?

As of today the ‘Server Health’ app now offers a way to do this. In any list of services, whether it be by device or by service a new checkbox will appear. It has the label “Hide this service.”

When you ‘hide’ a service on a specific device you may not have it selected for either alerting or showing in the status for that device. Hiding a service that has either of those other checkboxes selected will uncheck them before hiding the service. The service will be hidden immediately. If this service previously contributed to the status of the device that status will not update until the whole page is refreshed.

At the bottom of the list of services will be a link that will either make visible or disappear the currently hidden services:

This feature should help you make the ‘Server Health’ app more useful by eliminating views of data that just are not relevant for specific devices and services.