How to Create a dashboard?

Overview

Motadata ObserveOps (formerly known as AIOps) offers a highly customizable dashboard system that allows you to create multiple dashboards, each with a different set of widgets and a specific purpose based on your requirement. With this feature, you can easily view and analyze data from different sources in a single glance, enabling you to make quick and informed decisions.

You can create a seperate dashboard each to view data from all the different types of devices in your infrastructure such as AWS Cloud, Network devices, Servers , and more.

You can even create seperate dashboards to view data based on specific use-cases such as all the data related to Disk Utilization.

In order to view such customized data, you first need to create a dashboard and then add widgets to the dashboard as per your requirement.

Now, let us see how we can create a new dashboard and later we will look into adding the widgets to the dashboard.

Navigation

Go to Main Menu, Select Dashboard . The default dashboard screen is displayed. Click on the drop-down that is present at the top-left corner of the screen beside the main menu. Now, select .

The pop-up to create a dashboard is now displayed.

Create Dashboard Parameters

Kindly fill up the fields in the pop-up as follows to create a dashboard:

Field	Description
Dashboard Name	Enter a unique name of the dashboard you want to create.
Category	- Select Default to put the dashboard in the default category. - Select Create New to create a new dashboard category.
Category Name	Kindly provide the Category Name if you wish to create a new category. This field appears only if you chose to Create New in the previous option.
Security	- Select Public to keep the dashboard visible to all the users. - Select Private to keep the dashboard visible only to the user creating the dashboard.
Users	This column appears only if you select Security as Private. Select the users for whom you want to keep this dashboard visible.
Header Font Size	Select the font size for the title of each widget.
Horizontal Gap	Enter the horizontal distance (in pixels) that you want to set between two widgets.
Vertical Gap	Enter the vertical distance (in pixels) that you want to set between two widgets.
Row Height	Enter the height (in pixels) of each row in a widget.
Mark as default	Select this check-box to mark the dashboard you are creating as the default dashboard which is displayed when you open the Dashboard section from the main menu.

Select Create Dashboard to create the dashboard as per the parameters you selected.

Select Reset to erase all the current field values, if required.

After creating a new dashboard, you can start adding widgets to it.You can select the type of widget you want to add and configure it according to your needs.

Set a Default Landing Dashboard

A default landing dashboard opens automatically when a user navigates to the Dashboard section. You can set a default landing dashboard for yourself or assign it to other users when you create or edit a dashboard.

Set Default Landing Dashboard During Creation

1. Open the Create Dashboard form (follow the Navigation steps above).
2. In the Default Landing Dashboard section, select one of the following:
   • Set for myself — this dashboard opens by default when you go to Dashboard.
   • Set for selected users — this dashboard opens by default for the users you choose.
3. If you select Set for selected users, use the Select Users field to choose the users who will see this dashboard as their default.
4. Fill in the remaining dashboard fields and click Create Dashboard.

Set Default Landing Dashboard When Editing

1. Open the dashboard you want to set as default.
2. Click the Edit icon or select Edit from the dashboard action menu.
3. In the Default Landing Dashboard section, choose Set for myself or Set for selected users.
4. If applicable, select the users.
5. Click Save.

Default Landing Dashboard Rules

Rule	Detail
One default per user	Each user has exactly one default landing dashboard. Setting a new default replaces the previous one.
Admin override	A user with admin permissions can set any user's default landing dashboard.
Own default	Every user can set their own default from the dashboard they are creating or editing.

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If you manage a NOC team, set the shared NOC dashboard as the default landing dashboard for all NOC operators at once using Set for selected users. This ensures every operator sees the same view when they log in.