AI Advisor "Full Screen Mode" facelift
As you already know, there are two ways to interact with AI Advisor: Co-Pilot Mode where AI Advisor is docked to the current screen you are on (and has page context in memory), and the Full Screen Mode which, well... kind of speaks for itself.
Today we're giving the Full Screen Mode a bit of a facelift, so read on!
The new AI Advisor sidebar
One of the piece of feedback we've gotten is that the AI Settings that host important operational aspects to how AI Advisor operates are burried. Unlike say, collection configurations, AI Advisor settings (notably Runbooks and Custom Network Context) are meant to be living reflections of the operational reality of your network.
They by definition are better when you create/update them as you go. Forcing users to dig into settings and break the flow from AI Advisor was bad user experience. We're changing that to make AI Advisor settings easier to access, something that compounds with the recently announced RBAC for AI Advisor.
Here's how in a screenshot since a picture is always better than a thousand words:
The main new change is the sidebar that
- is horizontally resizable
- is collapsible (so you can take the full screen for your chat session)
- that now gives direct access to AI Settings: you don't need to go through
Company Settings > Kentik AIto access these settings anymore
Note: The "Recent" section of the sidebar panel is a carryover from the previous version, it lets you navigate existing sessions and load them in one click in the central panel. Pinned Chat sessions will always appear at the top of the "Recent" section of the side panel - this section
New AI Chat Sessions History screen
When clicking on the history button, a full screen history will load into the main panel. If you do this in the middle of a AI Chat Session, you can always go back by selecting the session from the "Recent" section.
This AI Chat History screen presents a few benefits
- presents itself in a full screen experience instead of being locked in a side bar
- allows users to easily filter between their own AI Chat Sessions, that of their company, or those automatically-generated by other parts of Kentik Portal (as with the AI Auto-Investigation feature to come)
What do you think ?
We like to share these minor, quality-of-life improvements with our users, and we'd love to know what your thoughts are on this new version.
- Are you Team Co-Pilot Mode or Team Full-Screen Mode ?
- Do you think this new UI is better based on how you use AI Advisor ?
- What other improvements would you like to see us bring to our AI Advisor User Experience ?