DeviceLink Site Dashboards are now available!

At Copia, we know how much observability can make a difference to efficient and resilient operations. That’s why we’re releasing site dashboards: a new tool that helps you monitor DeviceLink performance at your sites in real time. By using DeviceLink's dashboards, you can also identify patterns of issues on devices and ensure your Copia configuration is complete.

Here is a tour of a few of the capabilities included in the site dashboard:

1. Dedicated dashboard URL

Each site has its own site dashboard, and each dashboard has its own dedicated URL. The DeviceLink site dashboard is designed to be bookmarked as a “first stop” for reviewing a site’s configuration and performance. It can also be used as a view for an always-on monitor at a site.

2. Project Health table

The Project Health table summarizes the configuration status of all projects at your site, indicating whether there are any Projects that require additional setup or configuration to run backups properly. It also gives a summarized overview of job status by project, allowing you to quickly identify patterns of failure. For a detailed description of the configuration issues monitored by the Project Health table, please see our documentation.

3. Job Run Status graph

The Job Run Status graph is a large version of the DeviceLink graphs available on the Sites page. A larger form factor allows for more careful review and easier filtering interactions. To see all job runs with a selected status, hover over one of the sections of the bar graph. You can also use the filter menu on the top right of the graph to filter the graph for certain job run statuses. Clicking on a section of the graph will open the Job History page filtered for the selected date range and job status. The graph can be adjusted for multiple time horizons (last 24 hours, last 7 days, and last 30 days). In our user research, we found that many engineers preferred reviewing a consistent timeframe regularly, so the dashboard will remember your selection the next time you load the page.

4. Agents table

The Agents table summarizes the status and utilization percentage of all agents (single-site and multi-site) available at your site. An agent’s utilization is defined as the percentage of time it was busy running jobs in a given time period. As with the Job Run Status graph above, the Agents table will remember your previous time period selection. 

A more thorough overview of the features in the site dashboard can be found in our documentation. We look forward to your feedback on this new observability feature and will be shipping more features like it soon!

We’re excited to announce expanded support for Schneider Control Expert users! Copia now renders exported Unity section files in the following formats: .XBD, .XLD, .XDD, .XDB, and .XST. This enhancement gives Controls Engineers more flexibility when working with exported Control Expert project sections, enabling a smoother version control and review experience directly within Copia.

Start leveraging these new formats today and streamline your workflow even further! You can read more about our Control Expert rendering support in our Documentation.

As you grow your organization in Copia, user management becomes an increasingly complex problem. That’s why we shipped new integrations for third party identity providers this past February. But we’re always looking for ways to make user and permissions management faster and more painless, so today we are announcing a major upgrade to our user management interface. We’re launching our redesigned user management dashboard with several new features that make management of users and licenses easier than ever. Below is a full-screen view of what you will now see in the user management homepage. 

Some of the new features we’d like to highlight are:

User activity & license usage charts:

A common refrain we’ve heard from team leaders is that they’d love to see how many of their users are actually active, so they can offer additional training or reallocate write seats more efficiently. We’ve gone one step further: members of the Owners team can now see a breakdown of how many users in their organization last used Copia within various time horizons. Selecting one section of the pie chart will filter the user table to only show users whose last activity date on Copia falls in that timeframe.

We have also moved all information about license usage (write seats for Source Control users, and Agent/Device usage for DeviceLink users) into a single view, so you no longer have to navigate between multiple pages to understand your organization’s license usage.

This visualization is visible only to users who are part of the “Owners” team.

Improved user table filtering and sorting:

You can now filter the user table for multiple additional dimensions: team associations, repository associations, and whether a user is occupying a paid seat. You can also sort the “Last active date” column ascending or descending. We are also bringing our click-to-filter menus from the job history table to the user table - click on a team association or repo association, and choose whether you want to add it to a table filter or navigate directly to the team or repo page.

You can also save filters by bookmarking or copying the page URL - filters are now encoded directly in the URL for easier storing and sharing.

Export user list to CSV:

Members of the Owners team can now export a full CSV of all Copia users in their organization, including their team/repository associations and assigned permission levels. This feature is meant to support organizations who wish to audit user permissions using external tools.

Thank you and please reach out with any questions - we are always here to help and look forward to continually improving our product and your user experience!

We're excited to announce a valuable new update to Copia Copilot: Chat History! Now, your Copilot conversations are more useful and easier to manage than ever.

What's new:

• Auto-Titled Conversations: Each conversation automatically receives a clear, meaningful title based on your interaction, making it easy to find specific sessions.
• Indefinite Conversation Retention: Your conversations with Copilot are stored indefinitely, allowing you to continue conversations seamlessly, whether they took place days, weeks, or even months ago.
• Conversation Search: Quickly locate previous discussions or questions you've asked, making it simple to revisit past interactions.

Chat History ensures you never lose track of important Copilot interactions, significantly boosting your productivity and enhancing your workflow.

For more details, check out the Chat History documentation.

We're excited to announce the release of Smart Filter for RSLogix 500 devices, now available in Copia Automation's DeviceLink!

Smart Filter intelligently reduces noise in your automated backups by filtering out routine, non-impactful changes—like fluctuating tag values and configuration data—so your team can quickly identify and focus on meaningful logic modifications.

Benefits include:

• Clearer change histories and simplified audits.
• Reduced noise.
• Enhanced productivity for your engineering team.

Take advantage of Smart Filter today and streamline your automation device management!

Learn more and get started →

Hello,

Your experience matters! Help us define the future of industrial automation by participating in the 2025 State of Industrial DevOps Survey.

Take the 15-minute survey now: https://survey.sapioresearch.com/s/d75509 

Here are links to the reports produced from last year's survey to see how your contributions will shape thought leadership in 2025/2026:

Copia_Report_1stAnnual_r12.pdf 

The State of Industrial DevOps Workforce 2025.pdf

Thank you for your participation! Please reach out with any questions: gerry@copia.io 

Gerry Abbey, Director of Product Marketing 

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We're excited to announce a new feature in the Copia Desktop App designed to help you protect your valuable repo files by helping you get into the habit of committing and pushing more frequently!

With our new opt-in Commit and Push Reminders, you'll receive timely Windows notifications when:

• You've had uncommitted changes sitting around for a while.
• You have local changes that haven't been pushed yet.

Inspired by the valuable feedback from our users, this feature helps build the essential habit of committing and pushing frequently—"commit early, commit often!"

Ready to give it a try? These reminders are opt-in for the initial launch, so please check out our Documentation at this link to learn how to enable Commit and Push Reminders and boost your productivity today!

We have exciting news to share with all our Schneider Electric Control Expert users! We are happy to announce that Copia now supports the rendering of Control Expert Function Block Diagrams (FBDs).

Based on user feedback and requests, we have expanded our Control Expert support to include this popular language.  Having the ability to view FBD in its native graphical format should greatly simplify the process of reviewing and debugging code.  In addition, code commenting is provided, which allows you to add comments to the graphical diagrams as well.

We hope that this new feature will help our users design, create, review and deploy their control systems more efficiently.  For more information about our Control Expert support, please visit our Documentation.

Copia DeviceLink makes it easy to set up automated backups quickly for an entire Site using a sitewide backup schedule. Instead of manually scheduling backups for each of your Copia Projects one by one, the sitewide backup schedule applies a single schedule to every Project in a Site. However, there are plenty of reasons why you might want to exclude certain Projects from a schedule - perhaps a line is undergoing maintenance, or a device is awaiting a firmware upgrade.

That’s why DeviceLink now gives you the option to exclude Projects from a sitewide backup schedule. To exclude a Project, open the detail view and activate the “Exclude from Sitewide Backup Schedule” toggle (shown in the image above).

We know that case-by-case exclusions such as these may make it difficult to remember whether you have configured your automated backups as expected. That’s why we’ve also added a visual label to Projects that are not currently associated with any scheduled job, including sitewide schedules (shown in the image below). This label makes it easier to see which of your Projects are not configured for automated backup at a glance.

Thank you and please reach out with any questions - we are always here to help and look forward to continually improving our product and your user experience!

We're happy to announce that Copia now supports the newest version of Siemens' TIA Portal V20 for both Source Control rendering and DeviceLink automated backup! See our Documentation for more info on our Siemens TIA Portal support.