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Amankumarsingh's avatar
1 month ago

How to Create a Dashboard Widget for “Sensitive” Windows Servers?

Hi Community,

I’m looking for best practices to create a dashboard widget that highlights Windows servers which are more “problematic” or sensitive—for example, servers that frequently trigger CPU, Memory, or Disk alerts.

Goal:

  • Identify servers with high alert frequency or severe resource issues.
  • Display them in a widget so they stand out for quick troubleshooting.

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  • I could be wrong, but I don't know of a native way to do this. It would be a great feature to for LM to add though! Conceptually, you could probably create a new custom module that calls your API and counts the alerts for the device in a given time window. You could create a new datapoint from there that you could pop into a table widget and sort high to low. 

    You'd have to be conscious of maxing out your API calls--maybe only collect a few times per day per device (depending on how many devices you'll apply to this module).

    I'd be really interested to see if someone else has any cleaner ideas than this! (It's probably not a best practice to call the LM API from a collector haha).