NetForest – Dashboard

Overview

The NetForest dashboard displays a collection of saved charts. User can arrange and resize the charts as needed and save dashboards so they be reloaded and shared.

Layout of Dashboard

Sample – 1

Below is a sample NetForest dashboard that contains charts related to errors, such as error timelines, and exception by instances.

Sample – 2

Below is another sample NetForest Performance dashboard indicates spike in response time. The charts it contains in this dashboard are – Response Time by DC, Response Time by Server, Slow Transactions by Instance, and Slow Transactions by Page.

Creating a Dashboard

To create a dashboard, follow the below mentioned steps:

  1. Click Dashboard in the side navigation. If user is accessing the dashboard for the first time, NetForest displays an empty dashboard. Otherwise, click New to start building new dashboard.

2. To add a chart to the dashboard, click Add and select the chart. On having a large number of charts, user can enter a Filter string to filter the list. NetForest displays the selected charts in a container on the dashboard. On getting a message that the container is too small, user can resize the chart.

3. When adding and arranging charts is done, click Save to save the dashboard:

  • Enter a name for the dashboard.
  • To store the time period specified in the time filter with the dashboard, select Store time with dashboard.
  • Click the Save button to store it as a NetForest saved object.

Arranging Dashboard Elements

The charts in the dashboard are stored in resizable, movable containers. User can resize, move, or remove a chart in the dashboard.

Moving Charts

To re-position a chart:

  1. Mouse-hover the chart to display the container controls,
  2. Click and hold the Move button in the upper right corner of the container,
  3. Drag the container to its new position,
  4. Release the Move button.

Resizing Charts

To resize a chart:

  1. Mouse-hover the chart to display the container controls,
  2. Click and hold the Resize button in the bottom right corner of the container,
  3. Drag to change the dimensions of the container,
  4. Release the Resize button.

Removing Chart

To remove a chart from the dashboard:

  1. Mouse-hover the chart to display the container controls,
  1. Click the Delete button in the upper right corner of the container. Removing a chart from a dashboard does not delete the saved chart.

Viewing Chart’s Data

To display the raw data behind a chart:

  1. Mouse-hover the chart to display the container controls,
  2. Click the Expand button in the lower left corner of the container. This displays a table that contains the underlying data. User can also view the raw NetForest request and response in JSON and the request statistics. The request statistics show the query duration, request duration, total number of matching records, and the index (or index pattern) that was searched.

To export the data behind the chart as a comma-separated-values (CSV) file, click the Raw or Formatted link at the bottom of the data Table. Raw exports the data as it is stored in NetForest.

To return to the charts, click the Collapse button in the lower left corner of the container.

Modifying a Chart

To open a chart in the editor:

  1. Hover over it to display the container controls,
  2. Click the Edit button in the upper right corner of the container.

Loading a Dashboard

To open a saved dashboard:

  1. Click Dashboard in the side navigation,
  2. Click Open and select a dashboard or go to Dashboards menu at the top and select a Dashboard.

3. On having a large number of dashboards, user can enter a Filter string to filter the list. Once the dashboard is loaded, it is displayed in the below format:

Sharing a Dashboard

A user can either share a direct link to a NetForest dashboard with another user, or embed the dashboard in a web page. Users must have NetForest access to view embedded dashboards.

To share a dashboard:

  1. Click Dashboard in the side navigation,
  2. Open the dashboard to share,
  3. Click Share
  4. Copy the link to share or the iframe to embed. User can share the live dashboard or a static snapshot of the current point in time.
 1.1When sharing a link to a dashboard snapshot, use the Short URL. Snapshot URLs are long and can be problematic for Internet Explorer users and other tools.

Drill Down

User can drill-down a chart in the dashboard to get more insights about the data and to view the performance of the application. To do this, go to a chart and right-click over there. Then, click the Drilldown > Performance Dashboard.

The more detailed information is displayed in performance dashboard.

To view the logs from the performance dashboard, right-click over the chart and click the Show Logs option.

The log monitoring window is displayed.

Show Logs

User can view the logs using the Show logs functionality. To view logs, right-click over the chart and click the Show Logs option.

The logs of that particular chart is displayed as below.