Create New Dashboards
To create a new dashboard:
On the upper-right side of the page, click the Dashboard icon.
Click New Dashboard.
Choose whether you would like to create an Event dashboard or a Data Indexer dashboard.
The differences between the two dashboards can be found in the table below:
Dashboard | Description |
|---|---|
Event Dashboard | Use Event data stored in the Web Console cache. To populate a widget, the data must be available in both the Event dashboard and the cache. |
Data Indexer Dashboard | Query larger datasets over longer periods without requiring logs to be classified as “events.” Uses all log data in the Data Indexer to populate widgets, providing greater dashboard flexibility. DX dashboards allow you to add up to 10 individual TopX widgets with separate queries, and visualize up to 30 days of data. DX dashboards also include a refresh setting, allowing you to determine how often the widgets on the dashboard update with new information. This timeframe can be set to as small as one minute or as large as 24 hours. Because of the potentially large datasets involved in generating DX dashboards, widgets may take an extended period of time to load depending on the size of your environment and the amount of data being requested. This can impact performance of the DX on older HDD-based models; therefore, Exabeam recommends using an SSD for all DX data. To help alleviate this issue, the number of widgets on a DX dashboard is limited to 10 or fewer. |
Type a name for the new dashboard.
Specify the number of columns for the dashboard (must be 3 or greater).
(Optional) Type a Dashboard Filter. If a widget has a Lucene filter applied to it, whether within the widget configuration itself and/or through the dashboard configuration, a filter icon appears on the widget. Point to the filter icon to display the full set of filters being applied to the widget.
Complete the Entity, Read Permissions, and Write Permissions for the dashboard by selecting an option from the lists, as appropriate.
Click the Save icon.
The new dashboard is added to the list of available dashboards for the page. New dashboards do not display any content until widgets are added to them.