Introduction

• Dashboards display selected metrics of one or more entitie4s over a specific period of time
• Dashboards are the primary mechanizm for visualizing data sent to Zenoss Cloud through its data ingest API
• Collection Zones have their own dashboard feature, but do not have access to data received from the Zenoss Cloud API.
• There are several tile types, but we’ll focus on graphs.

Scopes, Entities and Metrics

• Dashboards care about scope
• Things that get graphed are filtered by the scope of the dashboard.
  • Dashboard will filter down all available entities to some subset of those entities.

Create a Dashboard

• Dashboards > Create a new dashboard
• Change the name of the dashboard
• Select Entities
  • Streaming Entities are not associated with Collection Zones so do not select any.
  • Instead, use “Other Sources” and start typing the name of your entity.

• Set Auto-Refresh
  • Timer icon
• Set Time Range
  • Blue [Past 24 hours] button
    • Select a preset
    • Use the slider
    • Customize as you desire.

Creating a graph

• Drag the graph tile onto the dashboard workspace.
  • Position and size as required
• Name the widget as desired
• Select an entity and metric
  • Start typing the name of the entity, then select with the mouse.
  • Start typing the name of the metric, then select with the mouse.
• Add any additional Metrics
  • Click the [Add New Metric] button
  • Repeat adding the new entity and metric.
  • Repeat as desired
• Save