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Hello,
I was looking at the BBmap component and have a suggestion. Our old in-house monitoring tool presented data much the same way as BBmap, but as the number of hosts and services grew it became less useful since we could only see a portion of the results at any one time. If you consider problems to be the interesting points, it became a large sparse array. We added a filter selection to the display to allow it to show all hosts/services or only host/services with problems. So any rows or columns that were all 'green' or acknowledged/scheduled_downtime were hidden. That made it much easier to spot problems across hosts and services at a glance. (like the operations center view, but in a grid).
Our hosts are automatically sorted by service group and can optionally be filtered by service group or a string in the hostname/description.

I would really like to be able to compact the array to show problem hosts/services. This may be simple to implement, but I've been too swamped to spend any time on it myself. (took a long holiday just to get the time to post this suggestion

I think I understand what you are saying, but just to verify. You would like to see a filter that shows one of three options; everything, hosts with any checks that are warning or worse, or hosts with critical on any one or more checks. I agree that this shouldn't be too big or difficult of a thing to do especially since we have host and service groups filterable already. I would highly suggest putting up a feature request on tracker.nagios.com, this would be pretty handy!

We filter not only hosts, but services. If you have a lot of different services, then the data becomes too wide to see all services at once. If there are problems off screen, you won't be able to see them without scrolling. Usually, there are several services (columns) that are all green and so don't provide much useful information. (sometimes you want to see what IS working, so it's best to offer a switchable filter so you can see everything when you want.) By setting the service filter to 'Problems', we suppress the display of all green services/columns, greatly compressing the display. That way you only have hosts/rows and services/columns where there is a problem. Much like the Operations Center, but in a grid format.
I'll try to get around to submitting a feature request today. What should that go under...Nagios XI, or something else?

Yep, I would put it under XI and features! You might also link to this page.