Creating a custom chart or table page

Complete the following steps to construct a chart or table from any of the data sets that are available for the selected component instance:

1. After you open the Application Performance Dashboard from the Performance menu, drill down to an instance of the managed resource.
   The selected system is highlighted in the navigator Instances section, which is named for the component type, such as Ruby App.
2. Click the Attribute Details tab.
   If no chart or table pages were saved for this monitoring agent type, the Real time Table is selected. Real time is appropriate for data sets that return multiple rows and is available only for tables.
3. If a saved chart or table page is displayed, click New.
4. Enter a name for the chart or table page in the title field.
   Do not use any of the following characters in the title: ! " % & ' * ? < > } { \.
5. If you prefer to see data samples over time, change the type to Historical.
   The Chart option is enabled.
6. If you selected Historical and prefer a chart rendering rather than a table, click Chart.
7. From the Data Set list, select the radio button for the attribute type that you want to see. If the list is long, use the filter box to reduce the list by entering the text that must be included in the data set name.
   For example, config for the Linux OS agent, filters the data sets to show only the Linux_CPU_Config and Linux_OS_Config data sets.
8. To include an attribute in the chart or table, select the check box next to the name in the Attributes list; to include all attributes, select the check box at the beginning of the list. Enter text in the filter box to locate specific attributes, such as percent.
   For example, percent on the KLZ_VM_Stats data set, filters the list to show Free Virtual Storage (Percent) and 5 more Percentattributes.
   Charts can plot only numeric values; any text or time attributes are disabled.
9. Click Preview Results to generate the page with the chosen data set, one table column or chart line grouping for each attribute, and one row or plot point for each data sample.
   You also get a row or plotted line for the aggregate of all the values.
10. To hide chart lines or table rows, take one of the following steps:

    Option	Description
    Chart	Hide a metric (a line in the chart) by clearing the check box next to the name in the legend. Select a check box to display a metric.
    Table	Reduce the number of rows that are displayed by entering the value to filter by in the filter box. You can also create an advanced filter, as described in Defining a table filter.

11. To adjust the time range, use the time selector:

    Option	Description
    Real Time	For tables only, refreshes and shows only the latest data sampling.
    2 Hours	Plots a point or adds a row for each data sample that was taken in the past two hours, at intervals.
    4 Hours	Plots a point or adds a row for each data sample that was taken in the past four hours, at intervals.
    12 Hours	Plots a point or adds a row for each data sample that was taken in the past 12 hours, at intervals.
    24 Hours	Plots a point or adds a row for each data sample that was taken in the past 24 hours, at intervals.
    Previous	Submenu of options to include data from the same time period Yesterday, 2 days ago, or from any day up to 1 week ago. For example, it's 2:10 PM on August 22 and you set the chart or table to show the past 4 hours. By selecting Previous > 1 week ago, you see data points from 10:10 AM - 2:10 PM today and from 10:10 AM - 2:10 PM on August 15. After you select a previous day, the time selector shows an asterisk (*) such as and the selected day's data is table is regenerated:

    • It is only possible to view data from today and up to one week ago (even if you have increased the maximum historical data retention period to more than 8 days).
    • Historical charts are plotted from the oldest data sample to the most recent for the time range selected, for example, last 4 hours. When a previous day is selected, you see the data from the selected time range on the previous day and the time range for today. Any days that are between the earlier date and today show a plot point with a time stamp and no data samples.
    • Historical tables are plotted in descending chronological order. When a previous day is selected for the Response Time Monitoring agent, each column is replicated for the previous day with Previous in the column heading.
    • Regardless of the time range selected, a maximum of 11,000 rows can be displayed. For example, if you chose to display 12 hours from a data set that sends 7,000 rows in 2 hours, fewer than 3 hours of historical data is returned and the oldest data samples are displayed.
12. To save or make other changes to the chart or table, select one of the following options:

    Option	Description
    Edit	Returns you to the editor for making any of the following changes: Edit the title Change to Real time or Historical data samples Change to Chart or Table Select a different Data Set or Attributes or both
    New	Discards any unsaved changes to the current view and returns you to the selection page for creating a new chart or table.
    Cancel	Cancels the editing session for the current chart or table page.
    Delete	Deletes the page. Delete is available only after a page is saved and any current editing is canceled.
    Save for Me	Saves the chart or table page for viewing by your user ID only. No other users can see the saved page.
    Save to Share	Saves the chart or table page for viewing by any user ID that is logged in to the Cloud APM console

    Views that you save have an opened lock next to the title. Views that another user saved that you do not have the authority to edit have a closed lock icon.

Results

After you save the custom chart or table, it is added to the list of saved pages. The next time that you select an instance of the same data source type, such as WebSphere® Applications, and select the Attribute Details tab, the most recently opened saved page is displayed. Click the title to select a different saved page from My Pages or Shared Pages.