Dashboards
Dashboards are a subset of reports and leverage some of the chart types we covered earlier.
The dashboard is a non-editable view of a report that can be used to provide an external view to other users, for example, for display in a NOC.
The main differences between a dashboard and a report are:
The dashboard is displayed in the Dashboard module in the IO UI instead of the Reports module,
The dashboard data continuously refreshes at a specific time interval while a report is run at a specific point of time, and
The sections of the dashboard rotate from top to bottom at a specified interval while the sections of a report remain fixed.
Dashboards do not use variables.
You can expand the dashboard to full screen by clicking on the two diagonal arrows in the header. This is also referred to as the External View of the dashboard and is useful for viewing the report in a monitoring center. Click the arrows again to minimize the view.
You can share the dashboard via email.
You can also change the interval at which the dashboard view refreshes its content and rotates through rows on the report. Select Settings to change the intervals.
There are standard dashboard templates available that you can use as a starting point for using dashboards. We suggest starting with these templates:
Application Health by Tier: shows you which applications are experiencing issues and lets you drill down into open cases to investigate the issue and its possible causes.
App Storage Performance Dashboard: presents a view into the performance of the storage supporting your application.
Tier Summary Dashboard: shows you information for all the applications in a specific tier.
These templates can be found by selecting the hamburger icon on the Dashboard home page and selecting the template.
