Data services 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 data services. For links to our other feedback portals, please see RESOURCES below.

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Support security baselining

As a PI administrator, I need to baseline the security configuration of my PI System to ensure OSIsoft security best practices are followed. Below is a list of requested features. Baseline verification (read-only) for PI Data Archive: - PI Data ...
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / PI System Deployment Tests 2 No status

PI to Connect (formerly Pi to OCS) agent needs to be collective aware

The PI to Connect agent is not collective aware. Instead, only a single archive can be mapped to the agent. Please allow the PI to Connect agent to utilize collectives. This increases the system's overall resiliency.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI to CONNECT / General 2 Future consideration

Send only data that has changed.

When transferring data via satellite it is necessary to keep bandwidth usage to a bare minimum. Currently OMF must send all values regardless of whether they have changed or not. If it could send only the data parameters that have changed that wou...
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 6 Declined

Provide metrics and health information as a stream

As an administrator, I would like to be able to create smart dashboards and alerting on the health of my critical PI infrastructure, including the PI to CONNECT agent. Providing the Agent and transfer metrics of the PI to CONNECT agent as a stream...
Sam Pride about 1 month 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 about 1 month ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Allow PI Adapter for MQTT (Generic) to process non-json payloads

Some MQTT devices do not send json payloads; for example, some devices send a single value as the payload for a specific topic. It would be beneficial for the adapter to be able to handle this rather than to convert these payloads into json befo...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT 3 In development

Allow Definition of Point Attributes via OMF to PI Web API

When creating containers via OMF the PI Points are created with default Point Attributes - if these need to be changed it is a manual process to subsequently change the attributes appropriately. As OMF solutions can be easily deployed it would be ...
Guest over 2 years ago in Developer Resources / Open Message Format (OMF) 2 No status

Allow the PI Point description to not be populated by the adapter

Implement a configuration flag that allows one to NOT synchronize description from OPC UA server into PI Tag. In instances where the description is empty "", the description cannot be set in PI. Similarly, the description on the OPC UA Server sid...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA 4 In development

Allow PI to CONNECT to send data faster

Currently there is upto a few minutes of latency from when data arrives in PI to when it is available in CONNECT. There are some tags/streams that we need the data quicker.
Derek Endres 3 months ago in PI to CONNECT / General 0 No status

Visualize CONNECT Metrics Page

We need to be able to visualize and see CONNECT metrics without a PowerShell script to aggregate the data. While the script was very helpful, this needs to be a built-in feature in data services. Having metrics of the CONNECT system is very valuab...
Hege Dammen 3 months ago in General 0 No status