Custom Dashboards

Creating a custom dashboard

You can create custom dashboard of sensor metric or custom query for one or more Informix database servers.

Dashboards can be created for a single server or for multiple servers. Multi-server dashboards can have up to 5 different servers. All dashboards will be saved in the current group. This allows you to open and view the dashboard for different database servers within that group, although you have the option of saving a default server or set of servers for any particular dashboard.

To create a custom dashboard:
  1. Click on Dashboards from the sidebar menu for a server or a group.
  2. Click the New Dashboard button.
  3. Select a server or set of servers which will allow you to preview the dashboard as you build it.
  4. Add one or more dashboard panels.

    Each dashboard panel can be defined to graph one or more sensor metrics from the repository. You can also define a graph based on custom query.

    You can graph multiple metrics from multiple different sensors on the same graph. For multi-server dashboards, you can choose to associate each panel to a single server or you can graph metrics for each of your servers in the same graph.

    You can customize the graph types (bar, pie, line and table), attributes of the left and right y-axes, colors and labels of graphed metrics.

  5. Arrange your dashboard panels. Panels can be re-sized and moved to different positions to create a custom layout for your dashboard.

    As you resize your dashboard panels, it is automatically saved.

Viewing a custom dashboard

To view a custom dashboard:
  1. Go to the Dashboards page of the group or server within the group.
  2. Select the desired dashboard from the list of available dashboards.
  3. Optionally, select or change the servers to show on the dashboard.

    If the selected dashboard has a set of default servers defined, it will open with the defined servers. Once opened however, you can change the servers shown in the dashboard by clicking on the server drop-down at the top of the dashboard.

    If the dashboard has no default servers defined, your context within OneDB Explore will determine which servers get loaded into the dashboard when it opens. If you open a dashboard from the context of a server, then that dashboard will be automatically loaded for the current server. If you open a dashboard from the context of a group, then you will be prompted to select one or more servers from that group to show on a dashboard.

Importing a custom dashboard

To import a custom dashboard:
  1. Go to the Dashboards page of the group or server within the group.
  2. Click the Import button and select the JSON file that has been exported from Dashboards page in OneDB Explore. New dashboard will be created with the same configuration that has been provided while exporting dashboards.

Exporting a custom dashboard

To export a custom dashboard:
  1. Go to the Dashboards page of the group or server within the group.
  2. Select the desired dashboard from the list of available dashboards.
  3. Click the Export button. JSON file will be downloaded to system's Downloads folder.