Custom Dashboard
Our Custom Dashboard brings together essential metrics from all levels of your infrastructure into one customizable view, enabling you to monitor KPIs at a glance. It features dynamic widgets that adapt to various devices and can be easily shared with colleagues and clients via permalinks, iframes, or exported PDFs. By adding widgets that highlight key metrics, you can tailor your monitoring experience for improved insights and efficiency. This document explains how to create and customize a dashboard to optimize your monitoring capabilities.
Table of contents
How to create a new Custom Dashboard
- Go to Home > Dashboard > Create new.
- In the Dashboard page, from the tool bar, you can perform the following actions:
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- Click Add Widget to add the widgets you want from the left panel.
- Once you add the widgets, click Auto Arrange to optimize the dashboard's layout.
- You can Delete the dashboard.
- You can edit the grid (i.e., columns) to meet your needs.
- Click Done Customizing once you're done customizing your dashboard.
Now, to view your customized dashboard, go to the Dashboards page and click the Custom Dashboards tab. Choose the desired dashboard, and from here, you can perform the following functions from the top band:
- Click the Edit Dashboard option to edit your dashboard.
- Click the Filter icon to filter the widget by the desired widget name.
- Set the selected dashboard as the landing page by clicking the Landing Page button.
- View data in its raw form or aggregated on an hourly basis to better analyze trends and patterns over different time periods by using the Raw/Hour toggle.
If you choose the widget's level period as Last 7 days, you can choose from Raw, Hour, or Day.
- Choose the Widget Level Period you want from the drop-down menu. This feature is applicable for supported widgets.
- Click Share to share the dashboard. You can choose to export the dashboard as PDF, schedule the dashboard during your desired time, or click Make Public to expand your dashboard's access without mandating login credentials.
- When you choose the Make Public option, you must complete the Share Dashboard form. This allows you to:
- View the permalink.
- Embed the dashboard as an iframe in your website.
- Use the Enable Dark Theme toggle (applicable for the dashboard you want to make public).
- Use the Restrict IP Address toggle to control access of the public dashboard based on the IP range you provide.
- After making your selections, click Save. You can also click Unshare Dashboard at the bottom-right of the screen to unshare the dashboard.
How to add widgets
Explore the available widgets and follow the steps to add them to your dashboard.
Performance Attributes
Time Series
The Time Series Widget provides data visualization of performance metrics over specific time intervals. This widget is particularly useful for tracking and analyzing the historical performance of resources, allowing users to observe trends, patterns, and anomalies over time. You can choose to view the data as a line chart, area chart, pie chart, vertical bar, or horizontal bar.
- Resource Type: Choose Monitor, Monitor Group, or Tags.
- Monitor(s): Choose a desired monitor.
- Widget(s): This option offers a selection of predefined charts that you can easily add as widgets to your dashboard. Alternatively, you can toggle the button to customize your own charts by selecting attributes. The toggle button is automatically enabled for Monitor Group, allowing for seamless customization.
- Show: When selecting Monitor Group (in this case, if you select a predefined chart), or Tags, simply pick the desired tags to view the latest 50 active monitors. Opt for Monitor Group to display the following widgets: Latest 50 Active Monitors, Top 50 Monitors, and Bottom 50 Monitors.
- Child Entities: When selecting monitors with associated child entities, you have the option to choose specific child entities for which you want to view data.
- Merge Charts: Merge the charts of different resources or attributes you have selected for comparison of data.
- Time Period: Choose the desired time period to view your data.
Textual Widget
The Textual Widget is a graphical user interface element that displays textual information related to monitored performance metrics, which can be useful for displaying specific metrics or status updates in a concise manner.
- Monitor(s): Choose the desired monitor.
This feature is currently supported only for Network devices, Agentless Server Monitors, and Plugin monitors.
- Attributes: Choose the attributes for which you want to see a text widget.
Numerical Widget
The Numerical Widget offers a straightforward way to view performance data in numeric format. It provides the flexibility to define conditional formatting for color-coded labels based on specified criteria.
- Resource Type: Choose Monitor or Monitor Group.
- Monitor(s): Choose the desired monitor.
- Attribute(s): Choose the desired attributes.
- Child Entities: Choose specific child entities for which you want to view data. (Applicable for monitors with associated child entities.)
- Location: Select location filter (if applicable for the selected monitor).
- Conditional Formatting: Define conditions and specify custom metric values to render the widget data in green, orange, or red to denote severity. Once the actual data breaches any of the conditions, the corresponding color is applied to the data.
- Time Period: Select desired time period.
Performance Attributes - Bar Chart
Bar charts offer a straightforward way to visualize performance data along with color-coded bars based on specified criteria.
- Resource Type: Select Monitor, Monitor Group, or Tags.
- Monitor/Monitor Group: Select the desired monitor or monitor groups.
- Widget(s): Select pre-generated charts to add as a widget in your dashboard or you can enable the toggle button and choose your own attributes to create a chart. The toggle button will be enabled for Monitor Group automatically.
- Location: Select location filter. (If applicable for the selected monitor.)
- Merge Charts: Merge the charts of different resources or attributes you have selected for data comparison.
- Time Period: Select desired time period.
Performance Attributes - Pie Chart
Pie charts help visualize performance data with color-coded segments based on specified criteria.
- Resource Type: Select Monitor, Monitor Group, or Tags.
- Monitor/Monitor Group: Select the desired monitor or monitor groups.
- Widget(s): Select pre-generated charts to add as a widget in your dashboard or you can enable the toggle button and choose your own attributes to create a chart. The toggle button will be enabled for Monitor Group automatically.
- Choose Location: Select location filter (if applicable for the selected monitor).
- Merge Charts: Merge the charts of different resources or attributes you have selected for comparison of data.
- Time Period: Select desired time period.
Top N/Bottom N Widget
The Top N Widget displays the best performing monitors of a similar type, while the Bottom N Widget showcases the least performing ones. Both widgets allow quick identification of areas requiring attention, offering various time periods for analysis and auto-refreshing every 10 minutes. They provide insight into metric values with hover-over details. These widgets are available for monitor types with preconfigured Top N and Bottom N reports.
- Report Type: You can choose to see the Performance or Availability data of resources.
Performance
- Resource Type: Select All Monitors, Monitor, or Monitor Group.
- Monitor Type: Select your desired monitor type.
- Monitor Groups: Select your desired monitor group.
- Attributes: Select your desired attributes.
- Top N/Bottom N: Choose to see the Top N or Bottom N of the selected resource.
- Time Period: Select desired time period.
Availability
Monitor the availability of your resources effortlessly by using Availability widgets on your dashboard for convenient tracking.
- Resource Type: Select All Monitors, Monitor, or Monitor Group.
- Monitor Type: Select your desired monitor type.
- Include Subgroups: If you select Monitor Group, choose whether you want the data of the subgroups to be included as well.
- Monitor Group: Select your desired monitor group.
- Top N/Bottom N: Choose to see the Top N or Bottom N of the selected resource.
- Time Period: Select desired time period.
Availability Trend
Availability Trend - Graphical Widget
The Availability Trend Widget showcases the availability data of your monitors for a predefined time period in a graphical chart view. You can view the available, unavailable and maintenance percentage split for a specific time stamp.
- Resource Type: Select All Monitors, Monitor, Monitor Group, or Monitor Type.
- Choose Monitor(s): Select your desired monitor(s).
- Include Subgroups: If you select Monitor Group, select if you want the data of the subgroups to be included as well.
- Monitor Group: Select your desired monitor group.
- Choose Monitor Type: Select your desired monitor type.
- Time Period: Select desired time period.
Availability Trend - Numerical Widget
You can view the availability data of your monitors and monitor groups for a predefined time period in the Numerical Widget. The data is presented in numerical digits. You can also define the criteria for Conditional Formatting, which lets you set custom metric values to display widget data in green, orange, or red based on predefined conditions. When data breaches these conditions, the corresponding color is applied, making it easy to identify severity levels at a glance.
- Resource Type: Select All Monitors, Monitor, Monitor Group, or Monitor Type.
- Choose Monitor(s): Select your desired monitor(s).
- Include Subgroups: Select if you want the data of the subgroups to be included as well. (applicable if you select monitor groups)
- Monitor Group: Select your desired monitor group.
- Conditional Formatting: Define conditions and specify custom metric values to render the widget data in green, orange, or red. Once the actual data breaches any of the conditions, the corresponding color is applied to the data.
- Time Period: Select desired time period.
Alarms/Current Status
The Alarms Widget helps to view the Down, Critical, Trouble, and Maintenance alarms count for your selected resources in a single widget view. It will display the number of monitors with error along with the total number of monitors. The color of the number of monitors with error will be based on the status with the highest count. If the statuses have the same count, the order of priority for the color would be Down, Critical, Trouble, and Maintenance.
NOC View
Monitor your entire account's status in real-time on a single, scroll-free dashboard with the NOC View. Each monitor is displayed as a tile with unique color codes indicating its real-time status. You can fit up to 10K monitors in one screen. The reasons for critical statuses such as Down, Critical, Trouble, or Configuration Error will be displayed for ease of immediate remediation. Clicking a tile reveals monitor details. Customize the NOC View with a darker theme. While all allowed monitors are visible, real-time status updates are only shown for users designated as alert contacts. Your recent NOC screen with active filters is always accessible via cookies.
- Resource Type: Select All Monitors, Monitor, Monitor Group, Monitor Type, or Tags.
- Monitor(s): Select your desired monitor(s).
- Subgroups/Monitors: Select if you want the data of the subgroups or monitor groups to be included as well. (Applicable if you select Monitor Group.)
- Monitor Group: Select your desired monitor group.
- Monitor Type: Select your desired monitor type.
- Filter by Status: Filter the resources based on the status of the monitors.
Alarm Summary
Get a quick overview of your monitor's alarm details, including reports and tag associations.
- Resource Type: Select All Monitors, Monitor Group, Monitor Type, or Tags.
- Include Subgroups: Select if you want the data of the subgroups to be included as well (if you select Monitor Group).
- Choose Monitor Type: Select your desired monitor type.
- Monitor Group: Select your desired monitor group.
Business View
The Business View Widget shows the business view of your selected monitor group in the widget view. You'll be able to identify the current status of every monitor in each groups using their status color codes. The status and color code of each subgroup will be decided based on the preset threshold value configured by the user during the monitor group and subgroup set up.
- Resource Type: It will be set to Monitor Group by default.
- Include Subgroups: Subgroups will be included by default.
- Monitor Group: Choose the desired monitor group for which you want to see the Business View.
Inventory
If you've an AWS Monitor in your account, the following inventory widgets can be added to your dashboard based on account and resources.
Geo Map
Geo Map will provide the resource breakdown by region. You can choose to view the region map or the numerical data of the resources from a region.
Parent Account: Choose the parent account (monitor type).
Account: Choose the desired monitor.
Guidance Report
You can view your monitor's guidance reports here.
Parent Account: Choose the parent account (monitor type).
Account: Choose the desired monitor.
Monitor Count
You can view the total number of monitored AWS resources and the region-based service count split-up data as a numerical widget. You can visualize the region-based service distribution split-up data in a table with the numerical option and view how the different AWS services have been operating during a selected time range with the Vertical Bar chart option.
Parent Account: Choose the parent account (monitor type).
Account: Choose the desired monitor.
AWS Resource Type: Choose the desired AWS resource type.
Widget Grouping
Easily organize your widgets by grouping them together to consolidate relevant resources.
General widgets
iFrame
The iFrame Widget lets you showcase any Site24x7 or third-party URLs or permalinks inside a widget. If you want to import and share your reports from your third-party reporting and analytics tool into Site24x7, you just have to paste the URL of that report in the URL field.
Evaluation/Free users can add and view the widget only when they have an active web session. Otherwise, the iFrame widget will be disabled in public view. You must upgrade to a paid subscription plan to view the iFrame widget again.
Date & Time
You can select the Date & Time Widget to set up and view the current date and time at your preferred time zone. You can manually pick the required time zone by applying the filter. You can also tag a City/Region name to the selected time zone.
- Time Zone: Choose your desired time zone.
- Hour Format: You can choose between 12 hour or 24 hour format.
- City/Region Name: Select the applicable region.
Notes Widget
The Notes Widget serves as a convenient tool for keeping essential information accessible on your dashboard to facilitating communication. It ensures vital messages and updates are easily communicated and referenced, enhancing overall dashboard usability and collaboration. You can refer to the markdown cheat sheet for markdown syntax while adding monitor inventory notes.
Advanced Analytics
Gain deeper insights with advanced analytics widget for comprehensive data analysis.
AppLogs
If you're using AppLogs with your Site24x7 subscription, you can add the following widgets to your dashboard. Choose from graphical, numerical, or tabular formats to monitor performance metrics effectively. You can also incorporate AppLogs KPI (Key Performance Index) Widgets to conveniently assess the performance indicators of your AppLogs.
Additional features
Under the Custom Dashboards tab, from the hamburger icon in your dashboard listing, you can access the following features.
- You can Clone your custom dashboard to quickly replicate widget selections and create consistent monitoring setups across your entire infrastructure.
- You can use the Save as a Template feature in Site24x7 to quickly replicate consistent dashboards across multiple clients, ensuring uniformity and saving time. This streamlines the dashboard customization process across monitors and monitor groups, eliminating the need to create new dashboards from scratch.
For MSP customers, it's recommended to consolidate customer data into a single dashboard for easy access.
- Use the Schedule Dashboard feature to automate the generation and distribution of your dashboard as a PDF at specified intervals.
- From here, you can also choose to Edit or Delete the dashboard.
