Dashboard Sharing – An Inline Framing Method
Often times we receive LM Administratorsand Users requesting for a method to share dashboards with a target internal or external audience. ‘Share’ in the LM Vocabulary may take on two meanings: I. Sharing Dashboards II. For the sake of article – Dashboard Shares These terms might not be as conspicuous to the actual objective. For clarity – let us briefly describe each key-functionality: I. Sharing Dashboards This is explained in our article: Quote Dashboard Sharing allows you to send a “snapshot view of your Dashboards to colleagues or customers. This is particularly useful for generating a visual report of your infrastructure's overall status at a specific moment in time. Dashboards are shared via email as linked web pages. The recipients of these Dashboards will be given read-only access to the Dashboard. https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/dashboards-and-widgets/managing-dashboards/sharing-dashboards/ An example - Sharing a Static 'System Uptime' Dashboard Key components of this function - Snapshot view, Reports To further explain, it is much alike to the Reports Generation Feature, and literally a static snapshot view of the Dashboard. So we’ve been getting users on our email and chat channels asking for a more interactive Dashboard view, and while our support page briefly mentions this here: II. Shared Dashboards Quote Shared dashboards are available to users based on the permissions configured by their role and should be created for any dashboard that will be viewed by more than one person. https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/dashboards-and-widgets/managing-dashboards/how-are-dashboards-created/ Therefore the key components are; live Dashboards, interactive, require the setup of role-based access credentials to log in. A further discourse on this method, this requires a User to be setup with Role Adjustments accordingly set for the target user/audience. This requires a credential or a login to the portal.A scenario would be for MSPs - You may set this to a read-only user for a target customer who may not require management or modification level settings. think . e.g( Extranet, or DMZ). This, however, requires the User/Customer to still access the LM Portal, and, login to be able to view the Dashboards. Furthermore, this might be an impediment if you’d like to set the Dashboard on a Display/ Monitor Screen where you might not be able to enter the User Credentials at any time / at all. An extension or workaround to this is in the utilization of inline frames (iframes); it is briefly discussed on this page: https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/dashboards-and-widgets/overview/what-are-dashboards/ This post would further explain, and demonstrate this method for the benefit of our Users and their corresponding internal/ external audience. Steps: 1) Role Based Setup: Firstly we'll need to create a 'View-Only' Role/User on this setup. In this case - we'll be creating a role that has a 'View' only access to the Dashboard - in our example- the 'Tutorial' Dashboard. Subsequently, we'll likewise need to create a User and assign on this‘view-only’ role View permissions for Dashboards. See example below: Note that the email provided should be one where the external customer does not have access. 2) The inline iframe setup method. 2a) Declare the credentials on the embedded URL - https://portalname.logicmonitor.com/santaba/uiv3/dashboard/index.jsp?c=portalname&u=XXX&p=YYY#dashboard=14 where: c=company(portalname) u=username (in our case XXX) p=password (in our case YYY) dashboard= dashboard ID number ( in our example id =14) - see below screenshot to determine the Dashboard ID 2b) Paste that URL into a browser to interpret the URL. 2c) User would have a live display of the Dashboard, and can toggle the time-range, but with no rights/ability to edit the configuration, ( and, doesn’t require a login!). N.B. Note that Device or Alert specific data will appear if the user is given permissions to view on that particular Device Group. i.e. if User has permissions to view Device Group A, the Dashboard will only display with Data specific to Device Group A.41Views0likes4Comments
Default setting for new alert widget columns
I noticed today that the alert widget had defaulted to having Static Threshold and Dynamic Threshold set as enabled. This messed up our dashboard column widths and layouts and we had to go through and reconfigure them. Please, please, please do not default new columns to enabled. Newthings should be disabled by default.0Views1like0CommentsWidget for ping monitoring
Hi Everyone! I'm trying to figure out how to create a widget, that will show the top ten servers that have a ping of above 100ms. I can make the standard ping widget, but I don't see a way to limit the graph to those servers that have a high ping. Do I need to use the virtual datapoint? Or, maybe I need clarification on what it means when I select top 10 on an average, or maxrtt datapoint. Thanks!7Views1like6Comments
ConfigSource that writes outputs to dashboard
A while back I published some very simpleConfigSources to monitor your collector .conf files: a href="https://communities.logicmonitor.com/topic/1345-collector-configsources/" rel="">https://communities.logicmonitor.com/topic/1345-collector-configsources/ Here's an adaptation that writes the various collected configs to a dashboard, writing each of the config outputs to a text widget. Notes: THIS IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT. No warranty is given or implied (value of your investments may go down as well as up, check with your health professional before taking this medicine, etc). Please test before deploying! As with all data within LogicMonitor (or any system), be aware of access rights of users - in this case to whatever Dashboard(s) the config data will be presented on. Be sure to configure your Roles and Users such that only users who have legitimate need to see this data can access whatever Dashboard(s) you send it to. This uses the REST API v1 to verify the target dashboard exists or create it if it doesn't, and also to create / update the text widgets. It will therefore need an API token for an account with management permission for the relevant Dashboard(s), with ID and Key values set as device propertiesapiaccessid.key and apiaccesskey.key. All of the API interaction is contained with a groovy checkpoint, rather than within the config collection script, so this could very simply be copied into other ConfigSources. The same logic could be used in other LogicModules, such as to write non-numeric outputs of SQL queries or any data collection methods to dashboards. While this provides no history retention as written, it will show current / most recent values. Within the script you can define the desired Dashboard path, e.g.'Collector Configs/Groovy Check' (default as presented here), Dashboard name (hostDisplayName is the default), widget name format (hostDisplayName: wildvalue) and other initial parameterssuch as widget colour scheme, description, etc. This is written for REST API v1. One day I may get around to updating it for v2, for greater efficiency, but today is not that day. Tomorrow is not looking likely either. Dashboard text widgets do have a maximum character limit (65,535 characters). I don't think I've seen a collector config near to or in excess of this, so I have no idea whether a larger config from another devicewould be truncated or whether the widget creation would fail. Other widgets on the dashboard are unaffected by this script creating and updating widgets; likewise later manual changes to widget size, colours, etc should be respected; updates should be to the text content of the widgets only, so the target dashboard could contain other data from the device. For example, it might look a bit like this: Known issues: On the first config collectionfor a multi-instance ConfigSource like this, and where the target dashboard does not already exist, only one widget will be created in the dashboard. This is because all instances collect more or less simultaneously, and each determines the dashboard is not initially present. Each, therefore, attempts to create the dashboard and as soon as the first instance does so, the others will fail as they cannot create a dashboard that (now) already exists. This could be coded around with a simple delay / re-check on failure, but I haven't had time, and the second config collection will create all expected widgets without issue. Additionally, if you create the dashboard first, this issue will not occur.7Views0likes4Comments
Allow Logarithmic scaling of graphs
It would be great if graphs could auto-scale using a logarithmic function so as to display data that tends to have wide variances. Currently, if one instance has an extremely high value, all other instances in the graph appear at the very bottom. A checkbox on the custom graph page should allow the graph to scale appropriately so as to keep that data visible.0Views0likes4CommentsWeb Page notifications
I noticed that the communities.logicmonitor.com requests rights to "show notifications". It would be awesome if our LogicMonitor instances could do the same and that we could configure in settings, so that we could push style notifications to our workstations on alerts.0Views0likes0CommentsWebsite response times on Big Number & Chart widget
We have a use case to show "Response Times" from a subset of configured Websites. Ideally I'd like this to be in the Big Number widget. We also want to able to chart a subset of my Websites' response times over time in the Chart widget. Anyone found a useful workaround to achieve this? Would LM consider "upgrading" widgets to allow the presentation of Website data? Currently only the SLA widget seems capable of handling Website data.0Views3likes1CommentGlobal 'Make Default' for Dashboards
Please add the ability to set a dashboard as the global default for all users so that when any user clicks the "Dash" menu option, they are taken to the default dashboard that the administrator sets. We have a dashboard that we use as the landing page with HTML widgets, it acts as anindex to other dashboards. We want all users to be taken to this landing dashboard when they click the Dash menu option. Thanks.1View0likes3Comments
