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Your own dashboards

There is no separate "Custom dashboards" page any more: your own, shared and the built-in overview live on one page — see Dashboard (switching, editing, sharing, versions, permissions). Old links to /custom-dashboards/<id> still lead to the same dashboard.

A new dashboard is created via the switcher in the heading → + New dashboard. It belongs to you (not to a tenant) and is empty until you add widgets.

Variables

Variables are placeholders like $host or $tenant that several widgets react to at once. Create them in edit mode in the side panel, tab Dashboard, section Variables.

Each variable has a name (reference $name), a label and a source under Values from: Hosts, Hosts with tag, Checks, Tenants, Profiles or Own list (values maintained by hand, comma-separated).

A variable can allow multiple selection and an "All" entry, carry a default and Depend on another variable (e.g. hosts only from the selected tenant). In the widget settings it can be used wherever a selection is expected (hosts, checks, tenants, profiles). A variable used by widgets can only be deleted once the binding there has been removed.

Which value applies: the one from the address, otherwise the one last chosen in this browser, otherwise the default, otherwise "All".

The chosen values are in the address:

/dashboard/<id>?var-host=web01,web02&from=now-24h

Passing on this address shares exactly the current view. In a public link variables can be fixed — see Dashboard → Public link.

Example

A dashboard "Data center":

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Variables: Tenant=$tenant, Host=$host · Time range 24h       │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ [State]   [Open problems]                      [Inventory]   │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ [CPU per host (graph)]         [Disk per host (bar)]         │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ [Timeline]                     [Capacity forecasts]          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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