Dashboards UIv4 is available starting August 23!
We're thrilled to announce an update to enhance your dashboard user experience. With this UIv4 update, we’re introducing an intuitive new design that aligns with the new LM experience, making your dashboard navigation more seamless with other areas of the product. Update the toggle on the top navigation to ‘New UI Preview’ to see the following changes. What's New: 🎨 Revamped User Experience: Our team has been hard at work reimagining the dashboard's visual appeal. With a new skin, your dashboards are now in line with the rest of the UIv4 changes that you’ve become accustomed to. While the core functionality remains intact, new aesthetics that consistency across the platform improve the quality of our LM experience. 🛠️ Enhanced Widget Editing: We've heard your feedback, and we're excited to introduce a new capability to the dashboard widget editing process. Say goodbye to the hassle of publishing a widget to witness changes – you can now preview your modifications in real-time before hitting that publish button. This means you have the power to experiment, tweak, and fine-tune your creations with the confidence of knowing exactly how they'll appear to your dashboard consumers. Thank you for being a part of our beta community. Your insights and feedback have been invaluable in shaping these new changes. We take pride in helping guide our analytics journey and want to get you to your destination in style. As always, your feedback is essential to us, so please don't hesitate to share your thoughts and experiences as you dive into these exciting new features. Stay tuned for more updates, and happy dashboarding! Best regards, Faran - Senior Product Manager for Dashboards and Reporting
Adding Weather to Map Widgets
LogicMonitor's Map widgets are a great and easy way to plot resources/groupsgeographically, including their status. A question that comes up occasionally is if it's possible to show weather information on top of these maps. While there's currently not a native option to show weather on a Map widget, it is possible to inject a weather layer onto an existing map with a bit of JavaScript. Below is a link to a sample dashboard that can insert various types of weather info onto Map widgets.Simply save the linked JSON file to your local workstation, then in your LogicMonitor portal go to Dashboards and click Add > From File. Dynamic_Weather_Overlay.json The magic happens in JavaScript embedded in the source of the Text widget. Feel free to explore the source code by entering the Text widget's Configure dialog and clicking the 'Source' button. In typical overkill fashion, I included the option for several differenttypes of weather information. The script looks for the following text (regardless of case) in the Map widget's title and adds the appropriate weather/info layer: "Radar" or "Precip" "NEXRAD Base" "NEXRAD Echo Tops" "MRMS" "Temperature" (OpenWeatherMap.org API key required) "Wind Speed" (OpenWeatherMap.org API key required) "Cloud Cover" or "Satellite" (OpenWeatherMap.org API key required) "fire"(for including perimeters of active wildfires) Prerequisites If you want to use one of the map types noted above as needing an API key (the other types use free APIs that don't require a key), you'll need to register for a free account on OpenWeatherMap.org. Once you've obtained an API key, just add a new dashboard token named 'OpenWeatherAPIKey' and paste your key into its value field.Alternatively, you can also hard-code the key directlyin the 'openWeatherMapsAPIKey' variable near the top of the script. The weather overlays should auto-update when the widgets performtheir regular timed refresh. For instance, new radar imagery is made available every 10 minutes and will update automatically. Weather sources currently defined within this script: RainViewer.com- Excellent source of global weather imaging data. Updates approx. every 10 minutes. Used by the script for radar/precipitation maps. Open Geospatial Consortium- Hosted by Iowa State University, an excellent free source of weather data. Since it sources data from the US National Weather Service, its data is local just US and Canada. Used by the script for NEXRAD and MRMS data. OpenWeatherMap.org- Good source for some weather data such as wind speed, temperature, and cloud cover. Requires use of an API key, which is available for free. National Interagency Fire Center - For data about active US wildfires. Known Issues: When switching to a different dashboard containing a Map widget, it's possible weather may still be visible on the new dashboard. If that happensjust refresh the page.Introducing Enhanced Dashboards and Settings in the New UI
We appreciate all theparticipation in our new UI beta testing program. Your feedback and insights have been invaluable throughout the process. Starting Wednesday, August 23rd, you will have access to more customization tools in the new Settings page within your LogicMonitor portal, as part of LM Envision’s new UI, simply enable the New UI Preview toggle to explore new settings personalized for each user andexplore all the new features and functionality in the new UI. 👉🏻 Be sure to join Open Beta Groupto provide feedback, ask questionsand learn more about new Settings and Dashboard enhancements, withcustomization options that allow you to configure the UI.Feature request - Add suppression type to the alert list widget
I had a case with Logicmonitor support where I asked if it was possible to filter away alerts that fall under a cluster alert. Here I got the suggestion to use routing state but this does not give anyvalue on a cluster alert. The support engineer looked further into it. "I have tested this further and unfortunately using the routingstate filter is not going to work here as this relates to suppressed by Root Cause Analysis. I'm afraid I'm not seeing an alternative way to removed suppressed alerts from the alerts dashboard widget” So my suggestion is to add suppression type to the filter of the alert list widget.LM Dashboards filter by property
LogicMonitor dashboards are powerful, especially with tokens. One huge/valuable addition (especially for a Managed Service Provider)would be a token to filter for specific instance group. IE a token for #defaultinstancegroup#. You can go into an instance today and clone a graph and it will show it’s setup for the instance group, but you can’t edit that or use that across a dashboard or create a widget by instance group. Similarly, would be great to have a token that could filter a dashboard by property; ie default resource pool.
Live Twitter Feeds in Text Widgets
Below is a fairly simple process to add any public facing twitter feed to widgets on a dashboard. Some use cases I hear a lot from customers is that they liketo see companies twitter feeds along their own service health dashboards because sometimes social media moves faster than status pages or email updates. This will all be done within a Text Widget. There is an option to utilize source code, we’ll be working in there. Make sure you have the frame of an HTML page set up, You can add any title you want. Tags with spaces will have sections added to them below. <html> <title> </title> <body> </body> </html> <script> </script> The first step is to go tohttps://publish.twitter.com/. Put in the URL of the profile you want,ex: twitter.com/Microsoft365, and select its embedded feed. The website will give you an <a class>HTML code to copy. Put the<a class>section into the <body>. It should look like this: <html> <title> </title> <body> <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/Microsoft365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Tweets by Microsoft365</a> </body> </html> <script> </script> There will be a <script>portion of the copied code, paste that into a notepad and take it out of the above. We will be using it in the next section. Next, we need to navigate to that .js link in the <script> section, you should do this in a separate tab. That page will lead you to the full JS code. Copy that code and paste it into the <script> section in your HTML frame. It should look like this: <html> <title> </title> <body> <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/Microsoft365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Tweets by Microsoft365</a> </body> </html> <script> JS Code here </script> From there, save and close the widget. If done correctly it should look like this (It may take a few seconds to load): Some helpful tips: Changing the widget refresh frequency also changes the feed update frequency Once created, the widget can be cloned and changed to another twitter handle with relative ease Usually goes alongside Dashboards for Health/Status Monitoring and can give additional context
