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Matt_Whitney
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10 months ago

UIv4 Dashboards Page - Table Widgets and instance-level properties

In the new UIv4 dashboards page, we are now able to add properties to a Table Widget as columns. However we can currently only add device-level properties to Table Widgets.

It would be really useful for a lot of use cases if we could add instance-level properties to a dashboard widget as well. For example if we had a table which showed interfaces, it would be useful to be able to show instance-level properties of the interface such as the interface description or interface vlan.

Also being able to use the ##DSIDESCRIPTION## token within a table widget would be useful for the instance description, but we cannot do that either.

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  • pgordon's avatar
    pgordon
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    10 months ago

    I definitely need this as well. Instance-level properties are a lot of what we would need to use for more granular dashboards, this would make them much more useful to us.

  • bstetson's avatar
    bstetson
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    9 months ago

    Cant agree more, this has been the feature I have been looking for!

  • billbianco's avatar
    billbianco
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    9 months ago

    Absolutely Agree.   Trying to make LM a single pane of glass for review our whole environment requires access to the whole suite of data being collected is essential.

  • jake_nahm's avatar
    jake_nahm
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    3 months ago

    Hi Matt. Thanks for sharing this feedback. I wanted to check if you would be open to a call to walk through some use cases where enabling instance level properties at a Widget level could enhance your troubleshooting?

    • Matt_Whitney's avatar
      Matt_Whitney
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      3 months ago

      Sure, would be happy to get on a call and go through some examples. Below are a few I can think of offhand. Including this additional information in the table widget would add helpful context for anybody using the dashboard.

      • Any widgets related to the VMWare VM datasources. These can include VM tags as instance-level properties, and would be nice to show those on the table so we can easily see what application/etc the VM belongs to
      • Any widgets related to Network Interfaces. The interfaces datasource has various instance-level properties which would be useful to show on a table widget

       

      I also noticed that the ##DSIDESCRIPTION## token is now supported in the "Row Name" field of the table widgets. This is a great step, but would be even more useful if we could filter the dashboard rows using the instance description, similar to how we already can for the instance/resource/group.

      • pgordon's avatar
        pgordon
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        3 months ago

        I'm chiming in to second the point on Network Interfaces especially. I would love to have a table with the interface-level properties. Much of what I need out of LogicMonitor is at the instance level and I'm still not seeing much functionality added in this area.
        Also would love to just be able to make a table with whatever resource and instance properties in it without needing to add a datapoint as part of the table. This would be for formatting data in a dashboard in a much more customized way than on the resource info tab in the resource tree