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How to Create a dashboard?

Overview

Motadata 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.

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:

FieldDescription
Dashboard NameEnter 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 NameKindly 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.

UsersThis column appears only if you select Security as Private. Select the users for whom you want to keep this dashboard visible.
Header Font SizeSelect the font size for the title of each widget.
Horizontal GapEnter the horizontal distance (in pixels) that you want to set between two widgets.
Vertical GapEnter the vertical distance (in pixels) that you want to set between two widgets.
Row HeightEnter the height (in pixels) of each row in a widget.
Mark as defaultSelect 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.