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Customized Dashboards

We need the ability to create and customize dashboards to display the exact information we require.

There should be widgets that we can drag and drop on to a dashboard template and after a dashboard has been created, we should have a choice whether it is public or private.  If public, it should generate a permalink and if private, obviously not.  Dashboards should auto-update without the need for third party tools to refresh the page

Suggestions of widgets:  

  • Disk Space utilization (select what servers we want to display this info for)
  • Disk Partition details (select what servers we want to display this info for)
  • Service status of monitored services/processes (select what servers we want to display this info for)
  • CPU Utilization (select what servers we want to display this info for)
  • Memory Utilization (select what servers we want to display this info for)
  • Network Interface Card status & data (select what servers we want to display this info for)
  • Monitor alert Summary
  • Monitor groups
  • SMTP Response time (select what monitor we want to display this info for)
  • Graphs & Metrics (select what Monitors and what elements we want to display this info for)
  • Database metrics (select what SQL databases we want to display this info for)
  • IIS Sites (select what Sites we want to display this info for)
  • IIS Applications (select what Applications we want to display this info for)
  • IIS Application pools (select what poolswe want to display this info for)

These are just a few suggestions but there are so many more you could and should add.  Every element of Site24x7 monitoring should have a customized widget.  This way we can set up a SQL dashboard for a monitoring screen for the DBAs, a Server and application dashboard for a monitoring screen for the systems administrators, a Network monitoring dashboard for a monitoring screen for the network team, a Cloud dashboard for the Cloud Platform architects and so on and so forth.

Site 24x7 does provide some valuable information but lacks the ability to present it in an easy to see way.  Also have to bare in mind that different teams work in different ways so each team needs to ability to customize their dashboard to suit their way of working.

Azure allows you to customize your dashboard so you can use that as a reference point.  Other monitoring platforms like Zabbix and Nagios also allow for custom dashboards so you can also look at that as a reference.

As things stand right now, we can't put Site24x7 on a monitoring screen as the way it would present the data isn't really useful to the teams but if this is implemented, we can respond more quickly to behavior changes before alerts are even triggered.

To the other users of Site24x7, feel free to comment and add your two pence in.  You may have suggestions that we haven't thought of and add value to this feature request.
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