Creating and editing chart widgets
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Turbonomic displays information about your environment in various chart widgets. To focus on the information you need, you can add new chart widgets to scoped views and dashboards, and you can edit existing chart widgets. You can also pull the corners of chart widgets to resize them and change the display order of chart widgets in dashboards.
When you create or edit a chart widget, you can choose various settings. For example, in the Top Utilized chart widget, if you choose Host Clusters as the Entity Type, you can then choose Utilization as the Data Type and Storage Provisioned as the Commodity.
Creating a chart widget
To create a new chart widget:
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Click Add Widget to open the Widget Gallery.
On a dashboard, click Add Widget at the upper-right corner. In a scoped view, click Add Widget.
Choose a chart widget in the Widget Gallery.
The Widget Gallery is a list of thumbnail previews of chart widgets.
You can scroll through the gallery or search it. For example, if you type "Health" in the Search field, the results are two chart widgets, Health and Workload Health. You can choose chart widgets from these categories:
Actions and Impact
Status and Details
Cloud
On-Prem
To see the possible displays of a specific chart widget, use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the thumbnail to scroll through the display choices.
To choose a chart widget to add it to your dashboard, click the thumbnail preview.
The Widget Preview window with the Edit flyout opens.
Configure the settings for your chart widget.
Chart widget settings determine the data that the chart widget shows.
In the Edit flyout, choose the settings and click Update Preview to display the result in the Widget Preview window.
When you are satisfied with your settings, click Save. The chart widget is added to your dashboard.
For information about settings, see Chart Widget Settings.
For example:
To delete a chart widget from your dashboard, choose Delete in the More options menu at the upper-right corner of the chart widget.
Methods to access chart widget settings
Two methods exist for accessing the chart widget settings in the Edit flyout:
You can access the settings in the Edit flyout when you add a chart widget to your dashboard after you click a thumbnail preview.
- For an existing chart widget in a dashboard, you can choose Edit in the More options menu.
Chart widget settings
Chart widget settings vary according to the type of chart widget. Also, depending on the value that you choose for a setting, more settings appear. The following is a list of frequently used chart widget settings:
Scope
The set of entities in your environment that this chart widget represents. By default, the chart widget scope is set to Global Environment.
For every type of chart widget, you have the option to set the chart's scope. To do so:
Click Click to change scope to open the Select Scope flyout.
In the Select Scope flyout you can:
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Select the scope for the chart: entities, groups, or accounts.
The ACCOUNTS tab is available depending on the type of chart widget.
Your choice appears in the Scope field.
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Search or refine results with a filter.
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Display details for the list of entities, groups or accounts.
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Timeframe
The timeframe for historical data or projections in the chart. Choices for the chart's timeframe are: Default, Last 2 Hours, Last 24 Hours, Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, and Last Year.
If you set the timeframe to Default, the dashboard Time Slider controls the timeframe setting. For example, if your dashboard Time Slider is set to one month (1M), then all chart widgets with the Default timeframe in that dashboard are set to one month and show information for one month. Note that the dashboard Time Slider does not override the other specific timeframe settings.
Chart Type
The chart widget display type. Most chart widgets can display horizontal bar or ring charts. Other display choices can include tabular data, band chart, stacked bar, line, or area charts.
Note:For summary charts like horizontal bar and ring charts, when the legend has more than four categories, the remaining categories are represented as a fifth category named "Other."
Entity Type
The type of entities or their data that you want to display in this chart widget. Choices vary (for example, Applications, Hosts, Virtual Data Centers, Storage Devices, and so on).
Commodity
The resources that you want this chart widget to monitor. Some charts can monitor multiple commodities. Choices vary (for example, CPU, Memory, Virtual Storage, and so on).