Widgets

A widget is a mini-application for displaying information on the Dashboards page and Analyze page. You can review real-time event data in Current Processing Rate, Data Processing Trend, Node Link Graph, Timeline, and TopX data widgets. The widgets update automatically to show the past 250,000 events (approximately) in the cache. You can resize and move widgets around to create new dashboard layouts, and configure widgets to display different types of information about case trends, component statuses, processing rates, data processing trends, system database usage, threat activity, and top events for dozens of metadata types. While on the Analyze page, you can query further to redraw data in the displayed charts.

Because of the potentially large datasets involved in generating Data Indexer 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.

For more information on the differences between Event and DX dashboards, refer to the main Dashboards topic.