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Subscription and Host Metric Changes in Ansible Automation Platform 2.4

Our customers use Ansible Automation Platform across a multitude of platforms, in a plethora of ways. That’s why in Ansible Automation Platform 2.4, we’ve introduced a new Host Metrics dashboard tab with the ability to: View high level automation run details per managed host The first and last time automated (this metric already existed) The number of times automation has been run or attempted to be run against a host (new in 2.4) The number of times a managed host has been deleted (new in 2.4)

It can be useful to reference this number against your automated hosts count: If imported > hosts automated then you have more hosts referenced in inventories than you have managed node count.

Hosts remaining - your managed node subscription count - hosts automated gives you the number of hosts you can still automate against before becoming non compliant.

This blog described the host metric accounting changes, the soft deletion capability and sequent subscription counting effects in Ansible Automation Platform 2.4.