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Performance graphical widget shows performance data charts for a monitor and attribute-based data of a specific monitor type for a group. The widget data is depicted for a pre-selected time period. 

Resource Type: Monitor

You must set the following filters to set up performance chart widget:

- Choose Resource Type as Monitor
- Filter Monitor by Monitor Group / Tag
- Pick Monitor Type
- Pick Monitors
- Pick Graphical widget from the toggle option
- Choose time period

You'll be able to create individual widgets for the monitors that you've selected. The data is plotted in a line/area/bar/pie charts. Some of the common attributes of a monitor that are plotted on the chart include Response Time, Throughput report, CPU Utilization, Read Latency etc. Based on the monitor type and the widgets that you've selected, the relevant metric gets plotted inside the dashboard widget. You can also view other critical metrics in separate widgets from all the locations that you've configured. The refresh interval is one minute for this widget.

Resource Type: Monitor Group

You must set the following filters to set up attribute-based widget:

- Choose Resource Type as Monitor Group
- Choose Monitor Group 
- Pick Monitor Type
- Pick Graphical widget from the toggle option
- Choose location
- Choose time period

When the resource type chosen is Monitor Group, you can pick a monitoring location and select an attribute widget view for that location. The refresh interval is one hour for this widget. The widget renders the average archived data of all the monitors of the selected monitor type in that group for the specified time period. Please note that this widget is not available for the following monitor types: Pugins, Custom Metrics, Azure and GCP.

Resource Type: Child Entity

You must set the following filters to set up performance chart widget for your child entities:

- Choose Resource Type as Child Entity
- Filter Monitors by Monitor Group / Tags
- Pick Monitor Type. Only the following monitor types have child entities.
- Pick Monitor, select the child entity type and pick the child entity of the monitor
- Pick Graphical widget from the toggle option
- Choose time period

The refresh interval is one hour for this widget. The widget renders the average archived data of the child entity of the selected monitor (of a particular monitor type) in that group for the specified time period.

In addition to the graphical view, you can additionally view the performance data of your monitors and monitor groups for a predefined time period in a numerical widget. The data is presented in numerical digits. You can also define the criteria for Conditional Formatting (to set color labels) to your performance data inside the widget.

Resource type: Monitors

If you wish to view the relevant attribute values of your monitor in a numerical format, move the rocker button to NUMERICAL, and the performance widget for your selected monitor will show the monitor attribute data in numericals. Some of the common attributes of a monitor that are plotted on the Numerical widget include Response Time, Transaction Time etc. In Website, REST API and SOAP Web Service Monitors, based on your response time split-up, you'll have additional widgets for individual metric split-up. These include metrics such as DNS Time by Location, Connection Time by Location, SSL Handshake Time by Location, First Byte Time by Location and Download Time by Location. For Monitor resource type selection, set the following filters to create the widget:

- Resource type "Monitor"
- Filter Monitor by Monitor Group / Tags
- Choose Monitors
- Select the Numerical toggle
- Pick location
- Define criteria for Conditional Formatting
- Choose time period and drag widgets to the dashboard

Resource type: Monitor Group

Monitor Group widget portrays the average performance data of all the monitors in that group. Set the following filters to create the widget:

- Resource type "Monitor Group"
- Choose Monitor Group
- Choose Monitor type
- Choose location
- Define criteria for Conditional Formatting
- Choose time period and drag widgets to the dashboard

Resource type: Child Entity

You must set the following filters to set up numerical widget for your child entities:

- Choose Resource Type as Child Entity
- Filter Monitors by Monitor Group / Tags
- Pick Monitor Type. Only the following monitor types have child entities.
- Pick Monitor, select the child entity type and pick the child entity of the monitor
- Pick Numerical widget from the toggle option
- Choose Location
- Choose time period

The widget renders the average archived data of the child entity of the selected monitor (of a particular monitor type) in that group in numerals for the specified time period.

Performance text widgets provide text attributes related to your plugin monitors, agentless server monitors, and network monitors.
To set up a text widget, you must set the following filters:
- Choose Resource Type as Child Entity
- Filter Monitors by Monitor Group/Tags
- Pick Monitor Type as Agentless Server Monitor or Network monitor
- Select Child Entity Type as Performance Counters
- Pick Text widget from the toggle option

The Availability widget showcases the availability data of your monitors for a predefined time period in a graphical chart view. You can view the available, unavailable and maintenance percentage split for a specific time stamp.

Resource Type: Monitors

Set the following filters to create the graphical widget:

- Select resource type as Monitor
- Filter Monitor by Monitor Group / Tags
- Choose Monitors (it'll create individual widgets for these monitors)
- Choose time period.

In addition to the graphical view, you can additionally view the availability data of your monitors and monitor groups for a predefined time period in a numerical widget. The data is presented in numerical digits. You can also define the criteria for Conditional Formatting (to set color labels) to your availability data inside the widget.


Resource type: Monitors

For Monitor resource type selection, set the following filters to create the widget:

- Filter Monitor by Monitor Group / Tags
- Choose Monitors
- Select the Numerical toggle
- Define criteria for Conditional Formatting
- Choose time period and drag widgets to the dashboard

Resource type: Monitor Group

Monitor Group widget portrays the average availability data of all the monitors in that group. Set the following filters to create the widget:

- Choose Monitor Group
- Define criteria for Conditional Formatting
- Choose time period and drag widgets to the dashboard

The Multi Attribute widget lets you view and compare upto five performance metric attributes of a monitor for a designated time. You can quickly isolate all the troublesome attribute that's hindering the overall performance at a specified time period. You can create an area or line chart widget. You must set the following filters to set up this widget:

- Filter Monitor by Monitor Group / Tags
- Choose Monitor Type
- Choose Monitors
- Choose Attributes (upto five)
- Choose time period

Current Status Widget can provide you a mini network operations control (NOC) view. You can instantly view the Live status of all your configured monitors in a single widget. Each of the monitor statuses can be identified using the unique colors that the tiles depict. Select the following filters to set-up the Current Status Widget.
- Choose Resource Type
- Choose relevant Monitors, Monitor Groups, Monitor Type, Tags, or Child Entity
- Filter by Status

There are five options to select from in the Resource Type filter: All Monitors, Monitors, Monitor Group, Monitor Type, Tags, Child Entity.

When you've selected the resource type as "Monitors", you'll get an additional filter to specify the monitors that you want to see in the current status widget. When "All Monitors" is selected, the entire list can be viewed in the widget. On selecting the resource type "Monitor Group", you'll have an option to pick a monitor group from your configured list and when resource type is selected as "Monitor Type", you can easily pick resources based on the type of monitor. The "Child Entity" widget will only be shown if you've a preconfigured Network or Server Monitor in the account. When you select Tags as the resource type, you can easily pick resources based on the tags. 

In the current status widget, when you've selected the resource type as Monitor groups, Monitor Type, or Tags you'll see additional filters to select monitor groups or specific monitor type configured in your account. Based on these selections, you can view the selected Monitor Group as Monitor Group, Monitors in Monitor Group, Subgroups in Monitor Group, and as Business View widgets.

Likewise, your selected Monitor Type can be viewed as Monitor Type and Monitors in Monitor Type. All the tags you've associated with your resources can be viewed under Tags in the drop-down option.

In the Monitor Group, Monitor Type or Tags widget, all monitors in a selected group or resource type will be categorized and respesented as individual tiles inside the widget. The status and color code of the overall group will be decided based on the preset threshold value configured by the user during the monitor group setup process.  

The Monitors in Monitor Group/Type, Tags Status Widget, sorts and lists all the monitors from all your specified monitor groups or resource types in the widget view. Suppose if you have selected "Zylker" and "Zillium" monitor groups, all monitors in these groups will be listed as individual tiles inside the widget. You'll be able to identify the current status of each of these individual monitors using their respective status colors.   

On selecting the resource type "Monitor Group", you'll have an option to pick the Subgroups in Monitor Group Status Widget. In this widget view, all your subgroups, including the parent group will be categorized and listed as individual tiles inside the widget. You can click on an individual tile in the widget to access the Subgroup's Details.

The status and color code of each subgroup will be decided based on the preset threshold value configured by the user during the monitor group and subgroup set up.

If you've a Server or Network Monitor installed in your account, you'll be able to generate the current status widget for the child entities of your Server or Network Monitor. Only the following child entities are supported in this widget.

On selecting the resource type "Monitor Group", you'll have an option to pick the Business View Widget.The Business View Widget shows the business view of your selected Monitor Group in the widget view. You'll be able to identify the current status of every monitor in each groups using their status color codes. The status and color code of each subgroup will be decided based on the preset threshold value configured by the user during the monitor group and subgroup set up. The business view in Current Status widget is click disabled.

Alarm Widget helps to view the Down, Critical, Trouble, and Maintenance alarms count for your selected resources in a single widget view. It will display the number of monitors with error along with the total number of monitors. The color of the number of monitors with error will be based on the status with the highest count. If the statuses have the same count, the order of priority for the color would be Down > Critical > Trouble > Maintenance.

You can pick the following resource types:
- All Monitors
- Monitor Group
- Monitor Type
- Tags      

Multi-Monitor Performance widget lets you compare the same metric across multiple monitors of the same monitor type. A user can compare upto 50 monitors in a single widget. The widget portrays individual monitor’s metric data in a line chart separately. In Website, REST API and SOAP Web Service Monitors, based on your response time split-up, you'll have additional widgets for individual metric split-up. These include metrics such as DNS Time by Location, Connection Time by Location, SSL Handshake Time by Location, First Byte Time by Location and Download Time by Location.

If you’ve selected 50 different monitors for comparison, 50 different colored line graphs will be plotted for each monitor's metric separately inside the widget. The widget is not supported for Biztalk Server yet.

The Top N Widget - Performance lists the Top 5, 10, 20, or 25 monitors (of a similar monitor type) and their selected metric values on a scale of worst-to-best. The widget lets you quickly identify the best and worst performing monitors of type, among all monitors in the account or a particular monitor group.

The Top N widget can be published for the following time periods, viz., Last Hour, Last 6 Hours, Last 12 Hours, Last 24 Hours, Today, Yesterday, This Week (Sunday-Today), Last Week (Sunday-Saturday), Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, This Month, Last Month. Horizontal bar graph views are used to showcase the monitor metric values, in which the worst performing monitor gets stacked at the top. If you hover over a particular monitor on the widget, you can view the monitor name and its metric value. Once published in the dashboard, the widget auto-refreshes the data once every 10 minutes. You can create Top N Widget for all those monitor types that have a preconfigured Top N report. The data portrayed in the widget is based on the archived time data (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly.)

The Top N Availability Widget lists the Least 5, 10, 20, or 25 monitors and their availability percentage (from low to high). The widget lets you quickly identify the top monitors that are Down in an account, a particular monitor type, or monitor group.

The Top N availability widget can be published for the following time periods, viz., Yesterday, This Week (Sunday-Today), Last Week (Sunday-Saturday), Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, This Month, Last Month. Horizontal bar graph views are used to showcase the availability percentage values in which the top Down monitors are stacked at the top. If you hover over a particular monitor on the widget, you can view the monitor name and its metric value (this tooltip will not be available if the monitor has a 0% availability value in the selected time period). Once published in the dashboard, the widget auto-refreshes the data once every 10 minutes.

The Iframe widget lets you showcase any Site24x7 or third-party URLs or permalinks inside a widget. Hence, if you want to import and share your reports from your third-party reporting and analytics tool into Site24x7, you just have to paste the URL of that report in the URL field. Evaluation/Free users can add and view the widget only when they have an active web session. Else, the Iframe widget will be disabled in public view. You must upgrade to a paid subscription plan to view the Iframe widget again.

Note: We disabled a custom dashboard iframe widget from rendering data if it has another Site24x7 iframe widget pre-embedded inside it. Also, we do not allow the addition of a custom dashboard’s iframe link inside the same custom dashboard.


You can select the Date & Time widget to set-up and view the current date and time at your preferred time zone. You can manually pick the required Time zone by applying the filter. You can also tag a City/Region name to the selected time zone.

If you've an AWS Monitor in your account, the following inventory widgets can be added to your dashboard based on account and resources:

Account

• Region Distribution Map: You can visualize your AWS services based on the AWS regions they are configured in.
• Region Distribution Count: You can view the total number of monitored AWS resources and the region-based service count split-up data as a numerical widget.

Resources

• Monitor Count (Numerical): You can visualize the region-based service distribution split-up data in a table.
• Monitor Count (Bar Chart): You can view how the different AWS services have been operating during a selected time range.

If you're using AppLogs with your Site24x7 subscription, you can add the following widgets to your dashboard.

Log Type

• You can pick from any of the Log Types you have previously saved in your account.

Widget Type

• We offer performance charts to be displayed as graphical, numerical or tabular data. You can change the widget type to see metrics for the same attribute displayed in different formats.

The widgets for each log type will be enabled only when you have a saved search.

Type a new name where the original name appears at the top of the dashboard.

Click the   icon on the widget. From the edit widget screen, update the name of

the widget. You can use it to identify a monitor widget by its unique name. 

Shuffle between
monitors 

Click the   icon on the selected widget. From the edit widget screen, pick a 

different monitor and time period. Click Save to render the updated widget.  

Resize and Reorganize
widget position on
dashboard 

To permanently delete a widget from your dashboard view, you must click the  icon on the widget. It will instantly remove the widget from the view.

Change Time Period and 
granularity 
for a custom dashboard
using Time Picker 

Time period for a Custom Dashboard can be set at two levels:

• Widget Level: This is the default setting in the dashboard view. Here, the time selection ranges from last 1, 6, 12, 24 hours or a 2, 6, 12 hours period, Today, Yesterday, This week (Sunday-Today), Last week (Sunday-Saturday), Last 7 days, This month, Last 30 days, Last month, and this year. Based on the time period selected in the widget bar, individual widgets will render data at different granularity levels 
• Global Level: In the Custom Dashboard view, you can easily override all the widget level time settings and specify a global dashboard time by picking the relevant time period from the drop-down. By selecting the Widget Level Period, though, you can continue to operate the dashboard under the widget level time settings.
  
  
  Based on the time set by you, you can get a granularity of   data. You can even choose a custom date range. The custom date range will have the provision to specify the time in hours and minutes too. Once this setting in the Custom Dashboard view is initialized, all widgets will uniformly start rendering the same granular data for the specified time. 

Day and Night Mode

To permanently delete your custom dashboard, access the edit custom dashboard view and click the  button shown on the top right corner. Select the confirmation prompt to cancel or continue.
Note: Once you delete a custom dashboard, you cannot recover it again. You'll need to re-create it from scratch.

Create graphical and
Numerical widget for 
Performance widget 

Performance widgets offer two unique ways of portraying data on the widget.

• Graphical: Shows a graphical representation of performance graphs like Throughput, Response Time etc.

• Numerical: You can view the performance metrics of your specified monitors as numerical values.

In the Edit Dashboard view, select all the required parameters for Performance widget and move the  rocker button accordingly.

Export as PDF

Export as PDF: To export the custom dashboard as a PDF document, simply access the  button in the Custom Dashboard view and appropriately select the Export PDF link.

Make Dashboard Public: Dashboards can be made public using permalinks or Iframe code snippets. Access the  button and click the View Permalink link listed in the drop down. A permalink will be provided to you for sharing the dashboards with your peers and customers. You can additionally copy the Iframe code provided to you and paste it inside the body tag of your webpage's HTML or another Iframe widget.
You can also whitelist a range of trusted IP addresses to restrict sharing to those selected IP addresses alone. Click the Unshare Dashboard link in the Share >Dashboard popup window to stop sharing your dashboard publicly.

Change Display size
according to the
type of monitor

Custom Dashboards are designed keeping in mind the various monitor display resolutions available in the market. If you wish to change the monitor display size, simply select the  in the custom dashboard view and appropriately pick, Mobile, Tab, Laptop or Desktop view to render the pinned widgets as per the display unit. Once selected, you can always revert back to the default view by clicking the Reset link.