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.
- Click on Dashboards from the sidebar menu for a server or a group.
- Click the New Dashboard button.
- Select a server or set of servers which will allow you to preview the dashboard as you build it.
- 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.
- Once you add graph/data source in the panel, it mandates to save the panel to apply the changes. You can also change the name of the panel by clicking on the pencil icon.
- Arrange your dashboard panels. Panels can be re-sized and moved to different positions to create
a custom layout for your dashboard.
You can view and save your dashboard based on the timestamp selection also. Once you select your desired timestamp, the save button will be enabled/disable based on the action you performed with the timestamp selection.
As you make changes to your dashboard throughout the process of defining and editing, it is automatically saved.
Viewing a custom dashboard
- Go to the Dashboards page of the group or server within the group.
- Select the desired dashboard from the list of available dashboards.
- 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 InformixHQ 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
- Go to the Dashboards page of the group or server within the group.
- Click the Import button and select the JSON file that has been exported from Dashboards page in InformixHQ. New dashboard will be created with the same configuration that has been provided while exporting dashboards.
Exporting a custom dashboard
- Go to the Dashboards page of the group or server within the group.
- Select the desired dashboard from the list of available dashboards.
- Click the Export button. JSON file will be downloaded to system's Downloads folder.