Dashboard

The Dashboard is the default landing page for most users. It is a grid of panels — configurable widgets — that display information from the Console's database: device counts, sensor values, event slices, and anything else you can express as a SQL query. Each user can create multiple dashboards, each with its own set of panels, and arrange them in an explicit layout mode.

Requires permission: the dashboard must be enabled for your user. A user without this permission does not see the Dashboard menu entry.

Overview

The Dashboard page sits at /dashboard. At the top is a bar of dashboards you have created; the active dashboard shows below it as a grid of panels. Dialogs handle creating and deleting dashboards and adding or configuring panels.

The first-run Setup Wizard

The first time a newly provisioned administrator opens the Dashboard, the Setup Wizard opens automatically. It walks through the minimum configuration needed to make the product useful — creating a first tenant, location, and group, and optionally downloading an agent installer. See First-Run Walkthrough for the full sequence.

You can close the wizard and reopen it from the help area later. If your environment is already set up, dismiss it and proceed directly to the empty dashboard.

Creating a dashboard

A fresh user starts with one empty default dashboard. You can create more so that different roles or different periods of the day get their own view (for example a "morning triage" dashboard and a "server health" dashboard).

1. Click the add button in the dashboard bar to open the Add Dashboard dialog.
2. Enter a name in the dashboard bar.
3. Save. The new dashboard is active and empty, ready for panels.

Dashboards are per-user. Two users do not share each other's dashboards unless an administrator configures defaults (see A.12 Content defaults).

Deleting a dashboard

1. Open the dashboard you want to remove.
2. Use the delete action to open the Delete Dashboard confirmation.
3. Confirm. The dashboard is removed immediately along with all panels it contains.

Warning: Deleting a dashboard cannot be undone. The panels you configured are lost. Recreate them from the Panel Builder if necessary.

Adding and configuring panels

Panels are the individual widgets that make up a dashboard. Use the Panel Builder to add or reconfigure them.

1. On the active dashboard, click the add-panel affordance.
2. The Panel Builder opens.
3. Choose a panel type: chart or table. For chart, also pick a chart sub-type: bar, line, area, pie, doughnut, or radar.
4. Build the data query. The Panel Builder exposes a SQL query builder with:
   • aggregate functions COUNT, SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX, and DISTINCT;
   • filter operators =, !=, <, >, <=, >=, LIKE, NOT LIKE, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL;
   • joins INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN;
   • ORDER BY direction ASC or DESC.
5. For chart panels, configure the label column and value column that map the query rows onto the chart axes or slices.
6. Configure display settings — colours, legend position, legend visibility, axis labels, fill (area / line), line tension (line / area).
7. Configure the panel size in the dashboard grid: Width in grid columns (1-12) and Height in pixels (200-1200).
8. Save. The panel appears on the dashboard and renders from its query.

Panel types at a glance

Rearranging panels

Panels are laid out in a responsive grid. To reposition or resize them:

1. Click Edit Layout in the dashboard header to enter layout mode.
2. Adjust each panel's width (1-12 columns) and height (200-1200 pixels) using the inline numeric fields that appear on every panel.
3. Click Exit Layout Mode to save the layout.

Layout is stored per-user per-dashboard; your layout does not change what other users see on their own dashboards.

Common tasks

Set up a tenant-overview dashboard for an MSP

1. Create a new dashboard named after the tenant.
2. Add a device-count panel scoped to that tenant.
3. Add an event feed panel filtered to that tenant's devices.
4. Optionally add sensor panels for critical devices (a file server's disk usage, a domain controller's CPU).
5. Switch between per-tenant dashboards via the dashboard bar as you move through your queue.

Build a quiet "watch list" dashboard

1. Create a dashboard named Watch list.
2. Add quick-access panels that link to the specific devices you are currently watching after a policy rollout or software deployment.
3. Add an event feed filtered to the same devices.
4. Remove the dashboard when the watch window ends.

Reset a cluttered dashboard

If a dashboard has grown unwieldy, the simplest path is to create a fresh one from scratch and delete the old one. Panels are cheap to recreate with the Panel Builder, and the fresh start forces you to keep only the panels you actually use.

Permissions and conditional behaviour

• Access to the Dashboard is gated by a user-level permission. Users without it do not see the page or the menu entry.
• The panels you can add depend on the data you are permitted to see. For example, a user scoped to a single tenant will only see that tenant's devices in a device-count panel, regardless of how the panel is configured.
• The Setup Wizard is only shown on the administrator's first visit to the Dashboard and can be dismissed.

Related chapters

• Devices — what device-count and device-list panels reference.
• Sensors under Collections — the source of sensor panels.
• Events & Audit — the source of event feed panels.
• A.12 Content defaults — configure system-wide default dashboards.