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 ReportingDevice / Instance Count in Widget
We receive requests from customers every now and then asking whether we could display the number of devices/instances dynamically on a widget, either through a Big Number Widget or Custom Graph Widget. An ancestral practice involves creating a complex datapoint with a value of 1, and then aggregate the sum of this datapoint on the widget to retrieve the total number of devices/instances. This could be tedious as it involves changes made on the DataSource level. There’s good news, though - We have modernized and simplified this method after making a breakthrough on a recent ticket utilizing the following neat and simple method, and we’d like to share this idea with our users: On a high-level, the quintessence of this stratagem is as follows: 1) Identify a non-zero datapoint where you'd like to see it'sdevices/instance count 2) Configure an Aggregate SUM of this datapoint e.g.AggregateSUM 3) Configure an Aggregate AVERAGE of this datapoint e.g. AggregateAVG 4) Create a Virtual Datapoint with the following expression: AggregateSUM/AggregateAVG Note: Datapoint with NaN will not be counted as a device or instance in the process of aggregation. Example of devicecount configuration:- Example of instancecount configuration:-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.
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 contextFeature 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.
