Introduction
The Device Timeline in the HP Workforce Experience Platform (WXP) provides a unified, near-real-time view of device activity so you can quickly understand device health, performance, and security status. It consolidates alerts, events, errors, application activity, and key performance indicators (KPIs) into a single, chronological view. The Device Timeline serves as your single source of truth for device behavior, enabling informed decisions and rapid issue resolution with comprehensive, real-time visibility.
Use the Device Timeline to:
Identify issues faster
Correlate system and application changes with failures
Reduce troubleshooting time
Minimize downtime
Improve device reliability and user productivity
The timeline acts as a single source of truth for device behavior over time.
Accessing the Timeline Tab
From the left menu of the WXP platform, click Devices > PCs. A paginated list of devices is displayed in a tabular view.
Click the Serial number of any device. The details page displays the Overview tab.
Click the Timeline tab.
The Timeline tab shows a state-based timeline that visualizes device signals as horizontal status bands across time, allowing you to see when changes, events, or errors occur and how long they persist.
The Device Timeline shows a state-and-event timeline visualization.
Timeline components
Lanes
Each lane represents a monitored device signal, such as CPU, memory, system drive, applications, system events, or security status (Antivirus, Firewall, Encryption, Secure Boot).
States
Colored lines show device status over time:
Green: Healthy or compliant
Red: Error or non-compliant
State changes indicate when the device condition changes.
Events
Markers indicate activities or changes at a specific time, such as installs, reboots, logins, policy updates, or errors.
Hover over a marker to view details and counts.
This visualization enables:
Historical performance analysis
Pattern detection
Identification of recurring issues
Faster root-cause investigation
Device Timeline Tracking
The timeline continuously updates using real-time, on-change, or interval-based sampling depending on the data source. Below is the complete list of tracked signals.
Tracked signals and refresh behavior
Timeline Category | Event name/type | Interval or event | Refresh type |
Alert | Alert updates | On change | On-demand, real-time |
System Health Errors | Disk errors | On event | On demand / real-time |
Battery Errors | On event change | On demand / real-time | |
OS Performance errors | OS Crash | On event | real time |
BSOD | On event | Real time | |
Application errors | Installed applicationerror | On event | On demand / real-time |
Web application errors | on event | On demand / real-time | |
Security | Antivirus | On change | Real time |
Firewall | On change | Real time | |
AV Signature status | On change | Real time | |
Encryption | on-change | Real time | |
Secure boot | on-change | Real time | |
Remediations | Script update | On change of status | On-demand, real-time |
Policy update | On change of status | On-demand, real-time | |
Applications | application installation updates | On change | Real time |
CPU | CPU Utilization | 10-min sampling | On-demand, real-time |
Memory | MEmory Utilization | 10-min sampling | On-demand, real-time |
System drive | Drive space Utilization | 10-min sampling | On-demand, real-time |
System health | System startup | on event | On demand / real-time |
system reboot | on event | On demand / real-time | |
system shutdown | on event | On demand / real-time | |
Login | on event | On demand / real-time | |
Windows missing updates | On event | On demand / real-time | |
Softpaq updates | On event | On demand / real-time |
Contact Us
For any assistance, create a support case or email support@wxp.hp.com.