Forensics
Widget
The Forensics
widget shows how often a metric has a particular value as a percentage of all
values, within a given time period. It can also compare percentages for two
time periods.
How the Forensics Widget and Configuration
Options Work
You can add the Forensics
widget to one or more custom dashboards and configure it to display data that
is important to different dashboard users. The data that appears in the widget
is based on the configured options for each widget instance.
You edit the Forensics widget
after you add it to a dashboard. The changes you make to the options create a
custom widget to meet the needs of the dashboard users.
Where you Find the
Forensics Widget
The widget might be included on any of your custom
dashboards. From the left menu, click to see your configured dashboards.
To customize the data that appears in the dashboard
widget, from the left menu, click . To create your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the
Dashboards
panel, click
Create
. To edit your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the Dashboards
panel, select the
dashboard you want to edit and select . Toggle between the Views
and Widgets
option to
view and add a widget or view to the dashboard. The widgets list panel displays a
list of all the predefined widgets. Drag a widget to the dashboard workspace in the
upper panel.Forensics Widget Configuration Options
On the title bar of the widget, click the
Edit Widget
icon to configure the widget.The configuration options are grouped
into one or more sections. You can select the objects on which you want to base the
widget data and refine the objects in the following sections. Each section filters
the objects further and pushes the filtered objects to the next section. The widget
data is based on the objects that are the output of the last section.
The
Configuration
section
provides general configuration options for the widget.The
Input Data
section
provides options to specify input for the widget. This section appears when the
widget is in self provider mode.Option
| Description
|
|---|---|
Title
| Enter a custom title that
identifies this widget from other instances that are based on the same widget
template.
|
Configuration
| |
Refresh Content
| Activate or deactivate the automatic refreshing of the
data in this widget. |
Refresh Interval
| If you activate the Refresh
Content option, specify how often to refresh the data in this
widget. |
Self Provider | Indicates whether the objects
for which data appears in the widget are defined in the widget or provided by
another widget.
|
Percentile
| Indicates how much
data is above or below the specific value. For example, it indicates that 90%
of the data is more than 4 when a vertical line occurs on the value 4.
|
Input
Data
| |
Select metrics on which you want to base the
widget data. You can select an object and pick its metrics.
| |