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Dashboards

Dashboards are a live, filtered view of the traffic you care about. Open them from Home → Dashboards. Each dashboard is a named collection of charts; each chart is a named set of matching rules. Charts refresh on a rolling time window and can jump straight into Data Analysis for the same slice of data.

You need the Edit filters permission. There is no separate Filters or Services page: /filters redirects here, and management (dashboards, charts, and rules) is in this view.

Screenshot placeholder: Workstation → Home → Dashboards. Dashboard selector, gear for management, two-column grid of live chart cards.

How the pieces fit

Dashboard  →  Charts  →  Rules

  • Dashboard — a named layout you watch as a unit (for example a product area or environment). Select it from the Dashboard dropdown.

  • Chart — one panel on that layout. Its name is also the saved filter you can pick in Data Browser and Data Analysis.

  • Rule — a set of matching conditions. A chart matches an invocation if any of its rules match (OR). A rule matches only if all of its conditions match (AND).

Chart = Rule1 OR Rule2 OR … OR RuleN
Rule  = Condition1 AND Condition2 AND … AND ConditionN

Charts that are not on any dashboard still exist. They appear under Not on a dashboard in the manager and remain available as saved filters in Analytics.

Watching a dashboard

Select a dashboard. Its charts appear in a two-column grid. Drag a chart by the handle at the top of the card to reorder the layout (order is remembered in the browser).

Each card shows:

  • Execution time — percentile bands (5–95%, 10–90%, 25–75%) and the median

  • Count — invocations in the current window

  • Errors — invocations that threw in that window

  • Two plots — execution-time distribution and request count over time

Charts refresh about every 30 seconds. The rolling window is 15–60 minutes in 5-minute steps; set it in the manager (gear) next to Time window.

From a card you can:

  • Analyze — open Data Analysis for that chart over the current window

  • Remove — take the chart off this dashboard only; the chart definition stays

If no dashboard is selected, or the selected dashboard has no charts, the page asks you to pick a dashboard or open settings.

Screenshot placeholder: A dashboard chart card with percentile legend, median, count, errors, and the two plots.

Managing dashboards, charts, and rules

Open the gear next to the dashboard selector. The dialog is three columns: Dashboards → Charts → Rules.

Screenshot placeholder: Manage dialog with Dashboards, Charts, and Rules columns; time-window selector in the header.

Dashboards

Create a dashboard with +, rename it, or delete it. Search filters the list by name.

Not on a dashboard lists charts that are not assigned to any dashboard. You cannot rename that row; it is only a bucket for unassigned charts.

Charts

Select a dashboard (or Not on a dashboard) to see its charts. From there you can:

  • New chart — create a chart and add its first rule

  • Add existing chart — attach a chart that already exists (only charts that are eligible; see below)

  • Rename a chart (renames it everywhere, including saved filters in Analytics)

  • Remove from dashboard — unassign without deleting the definition

  • Delete chart — remove the chart and all of its rules

A chart is eligible for a dashboard (and for Data Analysis as a saved filter) when every rule specifies an application, and all rules on that chart use the same application. Otherwise the list shows Needs one application.

Export and import charts as JSON from the header of the manager (download / upload). Import adds chart definitions; you still assign them to dashboards as needed.

Rules

Select a chart to list its rules. Each rule can constrain:

  • Application — required for dashboards and for Data Analysis saved filters

  • Instance — agent instance, as a pattern (contains, starts with, exact, or regex)

  • Thread

  • Class and Method

  • Exception — one or more types (OR), or Any exception

  • Parameters — one or more key/value pairs; values use the same pattern kinds. Several pairs on one rule are combined with AND.

Add, edit, or delete rules from that column. A chart with no rules matches nothing.

Removing a chart from a dashboard does not delete it. Deleting a chart does. Charts used as saved filters in Analytics keep working until you delete them.

Reuse in Analytics

Named charts appear in the Data Browser and Data Analysis search forms as Filters. Choosing one applies that chart’s rules and hides the manual condition fields. For Data Analysis, only eligible charts (single application on every rule) are offered. See Data Browser and Data Analysis.

Dashboards do not change what the agent records. What is captured is still decided by the monitoring profile and instrumentation. Dashboards only select and display already recorded invocations.

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