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The Dashboards Tab

The Dashboard tab provides real-time statistics on operational health and bandwidth in a visually simple format ideal for status tracking. Within the Dashboard tab, you can:

  • See overall service health at a glance.

  • Understand which services and applications are affected by current incidents.

  • Visualize important trends, and make sure the right team members are responding.

  • Focus your teams on the highest priorities by showing only the Environments for the most critical infrastructure and applications.

Each dashboard displays key operational data for selected environments. While a dashboard is open, the data is refreshed every minute.

The color coding and simple format of the Dashboards tab is designed for a NOC wall or extra monitor displays to make passive monitoring of key environments easy.

Environment Changes

Dashboards are created based on environments. Changes in environments will affect the data that is displayed within the dashboard.

Take a Tour

Click the module below to view an interactive tour of the Dashboards Tab.

Dashboard Navigation

To access BigPanda Dashboards, sign in to the BigPanda UI and select the Dashboards Tab.

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Live Dashboard

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1 - Dashboard Selection Pane

Choose a dashboard to display.

Live Dashboards

2 - New Dashboard

Click the blue New Dashboard icon to create a new dashboard.

Manage Live Dashboards

3 - Filter

Filter the dashboard selection pane to find a specific dashboard.

Manage Live Dashboards

4 - Collapse Dashboard Selection Pane

Click the blue arrow to completely minimize the pane.

Live Dashboards

5 - Dashboard Name and Star Icon

The name of the dashboard appears. Click the Star icon next to the title to add the dashboard to the list of starred dashboards. Starred dashboards appear at the top of the Dashboard Selection Pane.

Manage Live Dashboards

6 - Widgets

Dashboard widgets appear in the main display pane of the screen. Widgets display information about active incidents in BigPanda.

To resize a widget, hover over the right corner and click the Resize widget icon. You can select from Small, Medium, or Large.

Live Dashboards

7 - Dashboard Defaults

The selected sort order and chart time frame.

Manage Live Dashboards

8 - Edit

Click Edit to open the Edit Dashboard screen. Within this screen, you can adjust the dashboard name, widget type, sort order, time frame, and selected environments.

Manage Live Dashboards

Next Steps

Learn more about Using the Live Dashboard

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