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CONNECT feedback portal

Welcome to our feedback site!


We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about CONNECT products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the CONNECT product managers.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


This page is for feedback specifically for CONNECT. For links to our other feedback portals, please see RESOURCES below.

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__ParentID metadata should be parent Asset ID, not parent element GUID in AF.

As a connect data services user, it is more helpful to me to know the parent asset id of my asset rather than its parent element GUID. This would allow me to more easily navigate the Asset hierarchy programatically.
Jessica Rammo over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Alert if ingress detected to be in a bad state

During 2 recent lighthouse projects, most recently with Kimball Electronics, the machine hosting the PI to CONNECT agent experienced a reboot due to patch installations. PI to CONNECT didn't properly restart (we'll investigate that separately) and...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Monitoring network traffic of PI to CONNECT Agent

If there is a connection between a PI Server and a restricted Network (limited traffic due to a restriction of the data plan or restrictions by government authorities - e.g. China), it would be helpful to have information about the actual and esti...
Hans-Otto Weinhold about 4 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Allow administrators to change which CONNECT tenant/Namespace of the agent

As an administrator, the only mechanism to change the tenant or namespace of the installed agent is to completely uninstall and reinstall the agent. You can remove the agent from the Data Services Agent screen, but the Agent Configuration doesn't ...
Sam Pride over 1 year ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

PI to CONNECT - Automatic Agent Upgrade

Enable a more seamless upgrade experience for the PI to CONNECT Agent, the on-premises component required to transfer data to CONNECT
Elizabeth McErlean about 4 years ago in PI to CONNECT 0 Tell us more

Spectral Data

Be able to handle the storage, context, and retrieval / visualization of spectral data.
Guest about 4 years ago in Streams / Sequential Data Store (SDS) 1 No status

PI Adapter for Apache Kafka

Create a PI Adapter that supports reading data from Apache Kafka. Please comment with any specific data, requirements, or use cases that this adapter would need to support!
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / New Connectivity 0 No status

Provide a streamlined way to rename streams and push the changes to the endpoint

The current process forces the user to modify the adapter configuration (DataSource for the prefix, DataSelection for the stream name) and the endpoint (PIDA, OCS). The adapter should support modifying directly the stream name and push those chang...
Guest about 4 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General 1 Future consideration

Allow Asset Rules to support multiples of Id, Name or Description

When creating an Asset Rule, you are forced to extract tokens from either the Stream ID, Stream Name or Stream Description (not multiples). Often, information will be required from all of these fields. Being able to tokenise all inputs allows for ...
Sam Pride about 1 year ago in Streams / Sequential Data Store (SDS) 0 No status

An option to store symmetric keys in a file - OPC UA

It would be helpful to be able to read network trace between OPC UA Server and Adapter even if communication is encrypted. This possibility is described here https://www.unified-automation.com/news/news-details/analyzing-encrypted-opc-ua-traffic-w...
Guest 6 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 0 No status