Configurable dashboards

Configurable dashboards allow you to select a variety of widgets and arrange them into custom tabs. Widgets allow you to view data about specific sensors, sites, features, or to see aggregate data about your solution as a whole.

Getting started

To get started, navigate to a dashboard page and select a tab from the Tabs drop-down menu. Tabs represent workspaces where you can start adding widgets.

There are several pre-configured tabs that let you get up and running quickly, as well as a blank tab that allows you to fully customize your experience. After you've added a tab, you can add, remove, and reconfigure each widget on the tab.

Much of what you do on a dashboard is saved automatically, but some actions are not. In those cases, a count of active changes is kept over the Save button, and you will be prompted to save the changes before leaving a tab.

Dashboards

A dashboard is simply a collection of tabs. The dashboard is always available on the page, but it may be empty. In that case, you will see a message prompting you to add a tab to begin.

Personal dashboard

By default, a personal dashboard is created as soon as you deploy a sensor and for everyone that is invited to join an Exoprise deployment. The default dashboard has a number of different tabs, each with various widgets. Each user is free to manipulate the tabs and widgets on their personal dashboard.

Shared dashboard

There is a dashboard area that is shared between all members of a tenant. By default, the shared dashboard doesn't have any tabs in it. To create or copy a tab from your personal dashboard to the shared area, you must have admin rights.

To copy a tab from the personal dashboard to the shared dashboard, follow these steps:

  1. Select a tab from your personal dashboard.

  2. Click the gear icon next to the tab name.

  3. Click Copy to and select an existing or new shared dashboard.

You can also copy a tab from a shared dashboard to your personal dashboard.

Tabs (formerly layouts)

A tab appears as a discrete sub-page on the dashboard, and you can switch back and forth between tabs to view different collections of widgets. There are several types of tabs available that have different capabilities, and more are in development.

Top-level settings are available in the dashboard toolbar at the top of the page, and more are available in the tab's Configuration menu. You can toggle whether tabs automatically refresh their widget data, and you can rename, filter, sort, add widgets, or change how many columns all the widgets on the tab take up.

Widgets

Widgets represent a discrete data view. Some widgets show trends or charts for a particular sensor, others show overviews of sites, and some aggregate data from third-party APIs. A widget typically allows you to change its title, change which sensor, site, or tenant it points to (depending on the widget and your particular set of services), or remove it from a tab.

New widgets are developed frequently, but you can read a brief overview of some current ones below.

  • Sensor Trends, Errors, Alarms, Availability: All of these widgets show you data about a single sensor. They are added automatically to list tabs of the respective type. These widgets can be renamed, pointed to a different sensor, or removed from the tab. They also include a list of relevant links to allow you to get a more detailed picture of the state of that sensor.

  • Microsoft 365 Status, Microsoft 365 Messages: These widgets show you data from the Microsoft 365 Service Communications API. You can view the availability of services, a list of messages published by Microsoft, and follow the link to view the same data on Microsoft's Admin Center page.

  • Site Overviews, Solution Overviews: These widgets show you how many sites and sensors are in either alarm or error states.

  • Site Map: This widget shows you your sites laid out on a world map. The widget will try to find the location of your site based on the gateway IP address, but the best way to ensure the accurate display of sites is to pin a location to the site when it's configured.

  • Site Grid: This widget shows each type of sensor you have configured and each site you have set up. A cell is displayed at every intersection based on the state of the site. If you have set up a series of sensors for one site but have not yet created corresponding sensors for another site, the appropriate cell will display a gap in data with a link to add a sensor there.

Where data is color-coded, red, orange, and green represent error, alarm, and operational states, respectively. State is displayed on a priority basis with error states superseding alarm states, and alarm states superseding operational states. For instance, if a site has a sensor in error state, that site will be in error state regardless of the state of other sensors. If it has one in alarm state, the site will be in alarm. The site will show operational only if all sensors are operational at that site.

Blog posts

Be sure to check out the dashboard series on the Exoprise blog: