This article describes the process of creating standard Custom Dashboards. Use the following links to learn about creating other specialized types of dashboards:
Creating Stack Maps
Note: You can create a maximum of 100 Dashboards per Division, or up to 250 if using a dedicated orchestra. A custom dashboard limit can be requested from customer support.
For example, if an account has 2 divisions and a dashboard limit of 100, the total combined limit (Client level and division level) for the account becomes 300, as each division can have up to 100 dashboards.
- In the main Dashboard screen, click the My Dashboards button next to the current Dashboard name. This displays the Dashboards list.
- Click the Create Dashboard button.
- Input a name for your new Dashboard in the Name field, and optionally a description in the Description field.
- Add and configure up to ten widgets. (see widget configuration steps below)
- Resize and position the widgets as desired
- Once all desired widgets areconfigured and positioned, click Save.
Configuring Widgets
A Dashboard consists of up to ten "widgets" - configurable visualization tools that display summary data in an easy-to-read format. When configuring a custom Dashboard, you can add up to ten widgets and specify what data each of them will display, how it will be formatted, and what options the user will have when viewing it. When creating a Widget, you will configure the following sections in order:
- Source
- Visualization type
- Basic Properties
- Filters
- Visualization settings
The following sections explain each of the options available when configuring a Widget.
1. Select a Source.
You can choose from the following Data Sources when you create a Widget:
| Data Source | Description | |
| Tests | Alert | Display alerts generated by your tests. |
| Test | Display any type of data generated by your tests. | |
| SLA | Display metrics specific to your SLAs (Service Level Agreements), such as percentage uptime. | |
| Errors | Display errors generated by your tests. | |
| Node to Node | Display data from a Node to Node mesh test | |
| Internet Sonar | Display data from Catchpoint's Internet Sonar service | |
| Real User | Alert | Display alerts generated by your Real User monitors. |
| My Apps | Display any type of data generated by your Real User apps. | |
| Endpoint | Employee Apps | Display performance data for applications used by your endpoints |
| Locations | Display Endpoint performance data by Location | |
| Endpoints | Display performance data by individual Endpoint | |
| Tests | Display performance data for scheduled tests run from Endpoints | |
| Tracing | System | Display tracing data by system |
| Services | Display tracing data by individual service |
2. Select a Visualization type.
The visualization type determines how the data will be represented visually. Which types you can choose from depends on which Data Source you have selected. The table below provides a brief description of each visualization type. To learn more about them, read Selecting a Visualization.
| Visualization Name | Description |
| Table | Tablesare typically used to viewsummary data. Theycan represent high-level summary data, andtheycan also break it downinto discrete categories using dimensions. At least one dimension and one metric are required. Each dimension and metric adds a column to the table. |
| Tile | The Tile Visualization displays colored tiles representing the current status or recent performance of Tests, Products, Cities, Apps, etc. The color of each tile is determined by thresholds you set in the configuration. |
| Time Series | The Time Series visualization plots a line graphfor the selected metrics, metric breakout, and timeframe. It isused to show trends over time. The Time Series visualization can either plot multiple metrics, or a single metric and optional metric breakout. |
| Number Tile | The Number Tile visualization simply displays a numeric metric, making it easy to see the performance of a system at a quick glance. |
| Map | The Map visualization displays a map of the world with Nodes or Countries color-coded to indicatethe status of a metric relative to a configured threshold. |
| Scatterplot | The Scatterplot shows the selected metric for each test run over a period of time. |
| Monitor | A Monitor is used to display a list of recent Alerts, Events, or Errors. |
| Bar Chart | A Bar Chart visually compares metrics from different sources or two different dimensions using vertical or horizontal bars. |
| Matrix Chart | This chart is specific to the Node to Node test type. It displays a 2d matrix where each cell represents the connection between two of the Nodes targeted by the test. |
| Gauge | A visual gauge indicating the value of the selected metric |
3. Basic Properties Give the Widget a name and optionally a description. Widget names must be unique within your Portal. If you want to this widget to display data from a source within a specific division, select the division In the Division field,
4. Filter By default, the Filter option will be set to "All", meaning that the widget will display all data generated by the selected data source. To show just a subset of the available data, choose a filtering category, and then choose specific items to include in the Widget. The exact options displayed will vary depending on the data source you selected.
5. Visualization Settings In this section you will specify exactly how the Widget will display the data. Different Visualization types support different features and options. Follow the links below to learn about the settings for each visualization type:
Table Visualization
Tile Visualization
Time Series Visualization
Number Tile Visualization
Map Visualization
Scatterplot Visualization
Monitor Visualization
Bar Chart Visualization
Matrix Visualization (Node to Node)
Gauge Visualization