When creating a Custom Table (and I imagine a custom chart, alert, or anything that uses the "Choose Column" resource seen in the screenshot below) and setting the "Orion Object" to "Component" and then choosing "Current Component Statistics" in the left-hand side of the table, I noticed that the "Percent Component Availability" and "Percent Application Availability" columns are not pointing to actual percent available data. They seem to actually point to the "Availability" columns which are confusingly synonymous with the "Status" column found throughout pretty much the rest of Orion (who in the SAM team by the way thought it was a good idea name columns with status codes in them "Availability"? It doesn't even make sense...).
Here is the screenshot and you can see in the Output Preview column in the far right that it just shows 1.
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I thought at first maybe I needed to multiply this value by 100 in the "Custom Format" area of the table builder, but when I went into SWQL Studio and found the "Orion.APM.CurrentStatistics" entity I discovered the two columns called "ApplicationAvailability" and "ComponentAvailability" and virtually all of them had a value of 1 with a few others having values of 7 and 11, which are just different status codes. I think whoever coded these columns into this web control mistakingly labelled those columns as Percent Availability (just more proof that it is extremely confusing to call columns with status code data "Status" almost everywhere in the product and then, in SAM they call them "Availability" instead. Please just label all columns with status codes in them as "Status"... Please.)
This wouldn't be a big deal of I could choose the Percent Availability (the real percent availability field, not the fake one) from the other grouping on the left called "Current Component Status" (which is where the actual Percent Availability columns are in SWQL Studio, not in the Current Statistics entity), but when I click on "Current Component Status" there is only Description and Timestamp. That means that is obviously a historical table and the data that was in there is split up into the Historical groupings on the left side of the resource. It'd be really nice if there was an actual pre-calculated current availability field with something like "Today", "This Week", and "This Month" we could use (kind of synonymous with Peak, Min, Avg fields that we already get for CPU, Memory, and Response Time).
Here is the SWQL Studio data I'm talking about. These are definitely not percentage fields:
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