Binary profiling
A common challenge when managing digital employee experience (DEX) is a change implemented throughout the IT ecosystem, such as upgrades to applications or the rollout of new applications. With Binary profile, assess the risk of any adverse impact related to changes in your environment beforehand.
Binary profiling helps you answer important questions:
Is the specific version of the binary stable?
Is the resource consumption on a similar level?
Are there any unexpected problems we might see after the change?

Accessing Binary profiling
To access the binary profiling dashboard of a specific binary or product:
Open Alerts and Diagnostics → Binary profiling from the navigation menu.
Search and select a target binary or product name.
You can access binaries that you do not use in your environment.
If a binary name or product is not widely used by other Nexthink customers, searches may not return results.
After choosing a binary/product, a new dashboard opens with cross-customer statistics for that specific binary or product.

Interpreting Binary profiling
After selecting a specific binary or product of interest, the Binary profiling dashboard contains the following widgets grouped into the sections:
Binary Insights (right-side panel)
Binary Insights
Use the Insights right-side panel in the Binary profiling dashboard to quantify the impact of identified global binary issues and follow suggested improvements.
Current insights cover CPU and memory usage, as well as crashes and freezes.

FAQs about binary-related insights
Binary details
From the Binary details section in the Binary profiling dashboard, you can:
Switch to a different binary within an existing product name or to a different product within an existing binary name.
View the status of devices used with that binary.
View the number of companies and devices that have installed the selected binary.
View a GenAI description of the binary, which provides a category, subcategory and additional context based on its functionality.

Metric by binary version
Use the Metric by version widget in the Binary profiling dashboard to compare all binary versions that devices use.
The default breakdown shows the Version usage as a percentage of devices across all companies that use that binary.
See other metrics such as CPU single core usage, Time between crashes, Average memory used, and network-related metrics such as Network traffic, Throughput, and Connectivity.
The system displays usage at your organization as complementary information.

Binary version comparison
To sort binary versions in the Binary profiling dashboard and see how the latest versions compare to the versions you are currently using at your organization:
From the Metric by version widget hover over the version number to reveal the action menu.
Add the selected binary version to one of the columns in the Version comparison widget.
Alternatively, from the Version comparison widget, select a specific version from the column dropdowns.
The system relies on cross-customer metrics and data for version comparison statistics.

Assessing version comparison statistics
Compare up to three versions to assess the following cross-customer statistics:
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