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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.

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    bstetson
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    14 days ago

    jake_nahm​ Any update on this? I really can not emphasize more how much of a big deal this is and how we really need this. Waiting for this feature is starting to hurt as we have to look to other solutions to present this data. Can We get an update and have this priority raised? Thank you.

    • jake_nahm's avatar
      jake_nahm
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      14 days ago

      Hi Brian,

      Thank you for sharing your feedback. We would be happy to meet, to hear more about your use case and challenges you're running into. This is a feature we are heavily considering, and is noted as a priority area. I am copying my co-worker Ian_Marge​ who is helping to drive this effort.

      • pgordon's avatar
        pgordon
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        14 days ago

        I'd like to see this implemented too. Can someone on the team just provide an update on this here? We really should be able to put any property on any table wherever we need it, I know it might not be so easy on the backend but getting instance level data displayed or exported in an easy to use way is something that should have been done a long time ago in my opinion

  • bstetson's avatar
    bstetson
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    10 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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    4 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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      4 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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        4 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