About Dashboards
Dashboards combine metric, log, and trace data, along with data from your integrations' data sources, in one place - so you get the full picture of your system on a single screen.
Navigate to Dashboards from the left-hand menu in OpsPilot.
The dashboards list
The Dashboards menu opens All Dashboards, where your dashboards are grouped into folders. Two panels sit at the top:
- Favorites - the dashboards you have starred, each showing its folder and tags.
- Recently viewed - dashboards you have opened recently, with when you last opened each.
Below them, folders list every dashboard, each row showing a status dot and the number of dashboards it holds. The toolbar across the top helps you find one:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search for dashboards and folders | Find a dashboard or folder by name |
| Filter by tag | Narrow the list to a tag |
| Sort | Order the list, for example Alphabetically (A–Z) |
| Expand all / Collapse all | Open or close every folder at once |
| Status filter | Show only dashboards in the data states you pick - see Status dots |
| + New dashboard | Start a new dashboard - see Creating your own |
Using dashboards
- Open any dashboard from the list to view it.
- Star a dashboard to add it to your Favorites.
- Use the time picker to change the time range for every panel on the dashboard at once.
- Use the variable dropdowns along the top of a dashboard - service, environment, host, and the like - to filter every panel to the data you pick. Variables can hold more than one value, and your choices stay in the page address, so a link you share opens the same filtered view.
An open dashboard's header carries these controls:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Star | Add the dashboard to your Favorites |
| Make editable | Unlock a read-only dashboard (such as an integration dashboard) for editing |
| Export | Export as code (the dashboard JSON) or Export as image - see Import and Export |
| Share | Share the dashboard |
| Time picker | Set the time range for every panel |
| Refresh | Refresh the data, or set an auto-refresh interval |
Integration dashboards
Dashboards with [OpsPilot - …] at the end of their name are shipped by integrations. When you install an integration from the Integrations page, its dashboards appear here automatically.
These dashboards are read-only. To customize one, make a copy (see Creating your own below).
Status dots
The dots show whether a folder or dashboard has data behind it. Each folder shows the strongest color of anything inside it, except that a folder holding dashboards made by you or your team is never No data.
| Dot | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Has data | Has received data in the last two weeks. |
| No data | From an integration, with no data in the last two weeks. Hidden until you pick it in the status filter. |
| Unknown | Made by you or your team (including any dashboard not in a folder), not checked yet, or from an integration with no activity check. |
Creating your own
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Create | Click New dashboard above, then Add new panel to pick a data source, metrics, and a chart type. |
| Import | In Grafana, choose New → Import, then upload or paste a dashboard JSON file. |
| Copy | To customize any dashboard, including an integration dashboard, export its JSON and import it again. For a copy of an integration dashboard, first take integration out of its tags and [OpsPilot - …] out of its title, then import it into a folder of your own - otherwise it is still read as the integration's. The copy is yours to edit. |
| Save | Click the disk icon in the top right. Changes aren't saved automatically. |
Organizing
From the New dashboard menu on the All Dashboards page, choose New folder to group dashboards by project, team, or service. Folders show up in the list here.
To move a dashboard, open it, go to Settings → General → Folder, choose a folder, and save.
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