4 years ago
Improvements to dashboard configuration
Hello LM team, I've been working on building network dashboards and felt like I was lacking some flexibility to take my dashboards to the next level. Itemized out some suggestions below, things I have done in other tools that would really help tune in the usefulness and polish of the dashboards I build for our customers.
- Make more tokens available where they can be used, example: in displaying names of rows/items (such as ##DSIDESCRIPTION## instance description)
- To make boolean or status code values more human readable, add functionality to configure output value to text mapping for datapoints, in a similar manner to or combined with color assignment (value > 3 outputs "good", value > 2 outputs "fair", etc). Allow instance and datapoint tokens in these texts
- For multiple instance resources, ability to filter resource instances for a widget to a subset where datapoint values match configured expression(s)
- Ability to dynamically select a single instance which has the X highest/lowest value for a given datapoint - a gauge displaying one instance for example, I could create 3 gauge widgets for highest, 2nd highest, and 3rd highest
- Allow choice of colors for color bar, big number, etc
- Optional checkbox to not display the Title field of a given widget - (for a "Text" widget, to show only the text body - when I am creating big text to use as a header, having title text looks silly)
- Add an Image widget - a company or vendor logo goes a long way in the impression a dashboard makes