Custom 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.
  
  Note

  For Web Transaction (Browser) monitors, the Step Time widget is selected. You can select multiple steps from the Steps drop-down and create a widget based on the step time.

• 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.
• Filter by: Filter the resources based on the Monitor Type, Monitor Groups, and Tags.
  
  

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.

• 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.
• Filter by: Filter the resources based on the Monitor Type, Monitor Groups, and Tags.

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.
• Filter by: Filter the resources based on the Monitor Type, Monitor Groups, and Tags.

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.
• Filter by: Filter the resources based on the Monitor Type, Monitor Groups, and Tags.

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.
• Filter by: Filter the resources based on the Monitor Type, Monitor Groups, and Tags.

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.
• Filter by: Filter the resources based on the Monitor Type, Monitor Groups, and Tags.

Events

Event widget

View the total number of all Infrastructure Events based on the given query, providing a centralized view for tracking events using the Events widget.

• Add Query: Enter a query to narrow down the events to be displayed in the dashboard.
• 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 the desired time period. 

Application

Application Errors Widget

Application Errors widget allows you to monitor and analyze events related to your applications within Site24x7, providing a comprehensive view of application health, performance issues, and critical alerts. It consolidates event data, offering a real-time event list for tracking the status and performance of your applications. With detailed insights into application errors, the widget facilitates prompt diagnosis and resolution. Users can specify a time frame to filter displayed events and view ongoing issues for deeper analysis, while also highlighting critical events to prioritize troubleshooting efforts effectively.
These are the following fields you will need to fill:

• Applications: Choose the desired application for which you want to monitor the events.
• Components: Select the associated components.
• Group Widgets: Organize widgets into a group for better visualization.
• Time period: Select the desired time period for which you want to view events.

Golden Signals

Golden Signals are a set of metrics that help track the latency, traffic, errors, and saturation of various applications in APM Insight.

• Applications: Select the application to track its performance.
• Metric: Select the key metrics to display for the selected application, such as CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, Error Count, Response Time, Request Count, Disk I/O, Error Rate, Network Bandwidth, or Throughput.
• Time Period: Select the 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, Tags or Child Entity.
• 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.

• Child Entity: Select a specific Child Entity to see the related Child Entity Type and Child Entities.

  • Child Entity Type: Select a Child Entity Type to view the associated Child Entities in the NOC View. This field is displayed only for certain monitor types, like server, network, metrics, Cisco ACI, and NetFlow device monitors.

  • Child Entities: Select the Child Entities associated with the chosen Child Entity Type. If no selection is made in this field, the NOC View will present the status of all the Child Entities related to the selected Child Entity Type. If multiple Child Entity Types are chosen, you cannot see the Child Entities.

• Filter by: Filter the monitors based on Tags and Monitor Groups when Child Entity is selected as the Resource Type. 

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.

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.

• 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.