Coralogix now offers the ability to create unlimited, personalized custom dashboards. Use six new visualizations – Data Table, Line Chart, Gauge, Pie Chart, Vertical Bar Chart, and Horizontal Bar Chart – each of which supports all three data types – logs, metrics, and spans – to define and create a dashboard catered to your specific observability needs. Then, query across your widgets using our new Filter and Variable capabilities.
STEP 1. In your navigation bar, click Dashboard > Custom Dashboards.
STEP 2. Create a new dashboard by clicking +NEW DASHBOARD.
STEP 3. Drag a widget into your new dashboard: Data Table, Line Chart, Gauge, Pie Chart, Vertical Bar Chart, or Horizontal Bar Chart. Set the definitions.
STEP 4. Hover over SAVE, then click SAVE AS and enter a name for your new dashboard.
STEP 5. Hover over your new dashboard in the dashboard panel, and three dots will appear to the right. Click on the three dots and select from several options in the drop-down menu: STAR, SET AS DEFAULT, RENAME, DELETE, SAVE AS.
Notes:
By default, custom dashboards show data from the last 15 minutes. This can be modified using the timeframe dropdown at the upper right-hand side of the dashboard.
You can choose between different timeframes by selecting one of the quick timeframes or by using the custom tab and selecting two dates between which you want to show data.
Coralogix supports selecting a timeframe of up to 90 days for your custom dashboards. This lets you easily view metric widgets with long retention periods within your custom dashboards.
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Manually refresh your dashboard by clicking the refresh icon in the upper right-hand corner. Hover over the icon to see when the last refresh occurred.
You may also rely on the auto-refresh capability. Choose your auto-refresh interval in the time-picker for Frequent Search, high-priority data. Select from the following settings: off, 2m, or 5m. Monitoring data extracted from the archive will auto-refresh at a frequency of triple this rate.
Widgets are always in edit mode and may be edited at any time.
STEP 1. In your dashboard, navigate to the Dashboard tab > Custom Dashboards.
STEP 2. In the left-hand sidebar, view all available dashboards.
STEP 3. Click on the dashboard you wish to view and modify as desired.
STEP 4. Once you have made changes to a widget, click SAVE. This saves your entire dashboard. Click RESET to revert your changes and view the previously saved dashboard.
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Manage your respective dashboards in a more organized way using folders. Our folder system makes it easy to view and manage all of the dashboards you created or shared in one place. Create new folders and subfolders to keep your dashboard organized.
STEP 1. Click NEW. Choose CREATE FOLDER and assign a name to the folder.
You can create subfolders by clicking on the subfolder icon, which is visible when hovering over a folder.
STEP 2. Drag and drop your dashboards into the appropriate folders and subfolders. You can move subfolders between folders or transform them into subfolders by dragging and dropping them into another folder.
Effortlessly share your custom dashboards within your organization via permalink or by importing and exporting, eliminating the need to recreate them and minimizing overhead.
Permalink lets you generate a temporary view of your saved dashboard – including modifications made to variables and the dashboard time picker – and send it without permanently saving any changes. Coralogix applies variable values passed and time picker modifications as query parameters in the dashboard URL as you modify settings. The URL is then updated and synced.
var-
as variables in the dashboard. For example, in this URL: https://${your-domain}/#/dashboards/${dashboard-id}?var-example=value
. The query parameter var-example=value
represents the dashboard variable example
with a value of value
.from
and to
as a time period in the dashboard. For example, in this URL: https://${your-domain}/#/dashboards/${dashboard-id}?from=now-900s&to=now
. The query parameters represent the new time period, beginning 900 seconds ago and ending now.To generate the permalink, navigate to the left-hand column, click the ellipsis beside the saved dashboard name, and select COPY URL. Share this link with relevant members of your organization.
Effortlessly share your custom dashboards within your organization by importing and exporting them, eliminating the need to recreate them and minimizing overhead. Find out more here.
STEP 1. Click on the variable icon { } in the upper right-hand corner of your dashboard.
STEP 2. Define your Variable by defining Type, Field, Variable Name, and Display Name.
STEP 3. Click SAVE.
STEP 4. View the variables per Field in the upper right-hand corner of your screen.
STEP 5. Use the {{ variable_name }}
in the widgets query language.
Notes:
${__range}
variable. This variable is always available and does not need to be defined before you use it. You can also use the ${__range_s} and ${__range_ms} variants of this variable to get the range in seconds or milliseconds. For example, you could use the query sum(last_over_time(request_count[${__range}])) by (service)
to show the last reported request_count metric value over the entire time frame grouped by service.STEP 1. Click on Filters View in your left-hand sidebar.
STEP 2. Click +ADD FILTER.
Note: Application and subsystem filters are created by default; you can create new filters.
STEP 3. Define the parameters of your Filter: Source, Field, and Operator.
STEP 4. Click SAVE.
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Add Annotations to your dashboards to provide rich contextual information about single points in time.
Annotations allow you to spotlight crucial events by adding an agnostic query that runs in parallel to the query underlying your widget. Represented as vertical lines cutting across your line and bar charts, you may hover over an annotation to uncover event details and tags, adding an extra layer of context. The text message field even lets you embed dynamic label values for comprehensive insights.
Find out more here.
When you select metrics as the source for your Custom Dashboards widget, use free text in the Query section to search for a metric of your choice. As you do so, all relevant metrics will appear. Hover over any metric to view its system-generated metadata labels. Hover over a label to see its values.
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