Create Metrics From Your Custom Dashboard Widget

When you first create a dashboard, the data you’re using may be raw data. However, creating visualizations often helps you refine the information you seek from those logs or metrics. To enable you to take advantage of this refined data, Coralogix supports creating metrics from custom dashboard widgets.

When creating a metric from a custom dashboard widget, the process depends on whether you are creating a metric from a metric, in which case you will create the new metric using a recording rule, or a log or span, in which case you will create the new metric using Events2Metric.

Prerequisites

• Create one or more Custom Dashboard widgets.

Creating a New Metric from a Logs or Spans Widget

STEP 1. From your Coralogix toolbar, go to Dashboards > Custom Dashboards.

STEP 2. Open an existing custom dashboard or create a new one create a new one.

STEP 3. Click the three-dot menu in the top right-hand corner of the widget from which you want to create a metric.

STEP 4. Click CREATE METRIC.

The New Event2Metric pane opens with the fields already populated according to the widget data.

STEP 5. Enter a name for your metric.

STEP 6. [Optional] Fill out any other fields you want to customize in the Event2Metric pane, as described in the Events2Metrics documentation.

STEP 7. Click Create Logs2Metric or Create Spans2Metric (the button changes depending on whether your selected metric came from a log widget or a spans widget).

Creating a New Metric from a Metric Widget

STEP 1. From your Coralogix toolbar, go to Dashboards > Custom Dashboards.

STEP 2. Open an existing custom dashboard or create a new one (learn more about creating Custom Dashboards).

STEP 3. Click the three dot menu in the top right hand corner of the widget from which you want to create a metric.

STEP 4. Click CREATE METRIC.

The New Recording Rule pane opens with the New Rule and Expression fields already populated according to the widget data.

STEP 5. Select a rule set from the existing rule sets or click +ADD NEW SET to create a new rule set.

STEP 6. Enter a name for your recording rule.

STEP 7. Enter a name for your metric.

STEP 8. [Optional] Edit any other fields you want to customize in the New Recording Rule pane as described in the Recording Rules documentation.

STEP 9. Click Save Rule Group.

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