Usage snapshot

See current parallel and queue usage and take action to free capacity when needed.

Usage snapshot provides a point-in-time view of your team’s or organization’s test capacity usage. It’s designed to help you with operational decisions like understanding the usage of parallels and devices, and freeing them up for urgent tests.

What is usage snapshot?

Usage snapshot displays live operational data:

• Current parallel usage and queued sessions.
• Current device usage and queue, with the availability marked according to tiers.
• Drill-down by user to the builds they are running.
• Action to stop a user’s running build to immediately free capacity (queued sessions remain queued).
• Manual refresh to update the snapshot.

Why use it?

• Quickly determine if you have enough free parallels or devices to start urgent test runs.
• Identify users or builds consuming most capacity and intervene when necessary.
• Validate device tier availability before kicking off App Automate suites.
• Empower IAM Admins to manage org-wide capacity while individual teams manage their own scope.

Role-based scope

Access determines the data you see:

• IAM Admin: Org-wide view (for example, total 350 parallels; device tier caps across the org).
• Regular user: Team-scoped view (for example, team’s 100 parallels; device tier caps for the team).

Parallel usage

• Metrics:
  • Parallels in use
  • Queued sessions
• Drill down:
  • View usage by user → see their running builds
• Action:
  • Stop build: Kills the user’s running sessions to free parallels immediately. Queued sessions are unaffected.
• Refresh:
  • Click Refresh to update Data is not updated in real-time.

Device tiers (App Automate)

App Automate groups devices into tiers by availability:

• Tier 1: High availability
• Tier 2–3: Moderate constraints
• Tier 4: Restrictive availability

Limits apply per tier (for example, max 80 Tier 1 devices, 5 Tier 4 devices). Use the snapshot to check availability before triggering large runs.

Actions:

• Stop build for a user to free a device when urgent.

How to use usage snapshot

1. On your dashboard (Automate, App Automate, or Test Reporting & Analytics), hover on Usage Snapshot towards the bottom-left of your screen. You can see a quick overview of your usage. This overview includes the parallels used, sessions queued, and external test executions along with the maximum limits. If you have allocated parallels and sessions for teams, you would see team level information here depending on your role.
2. Click Usage Snapshot to open a detailed view. The detailed view has two tabs: Parallels and Tiers.
3. Depending on your role, the Parallels tab lists the distribution of parallels used and queued sessions for every user or team. The Tiers tab lists the device allocations (more relevant in App Automate) split across different tiers according to availability. You can click View by Users or Group by Teams to sort the list. You can also view the timestamp of the last build run for each user or team.
4. Click View running builds to view the currently running builds of that user.
5. Click Refresh to get updated data. The usage details are not updated in real time.
6. If you are in need of resources, you can hover over a build and click the stop icon to stop the build and release the parallels used. Note that from here, you can stop only the builds that are running, not the ones that are in queue.
7. Click Refresh for latest totals.

Result: You can quickly free capacity or confirm availability for upcoming test runs.

Limitations

• Point-in-time: This is not an analytics dashboard. It does not show trends or historical charts.
• Manual refresh: Data updates only when you refresh.

Frequently asked questions

Does stopping a build affect queued sessions? No. Only running sessions are terminated. Queued sessions remain in queue.

Can I export usage snapshot data? Not intended for export. Use analytics dashboards for historical reporting.

Why don’t I see org-wide data? Your role might be a regular user. IAM Admins see org-wide data.

Related resources

• Custom dashboards
• Analyze testing activity