Analytics dashboard application is the data visualization component of WSO2 Data Analytics Server. You can create dashboards using summarized analytics tables and event streams. A dashboard is a container for gadgets/widgets, and its pages have a structured layout with predefined grids, to which you add the dashboard components. The analytics dashboard serves the following purposes.
Creating a dashboard
Follow the steps below to create a dashboard.
- Access the analytics dashboard application using the following URL: https://<HOST_NAME>:<PORT>/portal/dashboards. (E .g. https://localhost:9443/portal/dashboards). You are presented with a login screen like below.
Log in to the dashboard using Carbon login credentials. You are presented with a list dashboards you’ve already created as shown below.
Click the following +Dashboard button in the top navigational bar to create a new dashboard.
Enter a Title and a Description for the new dashboard as shown below, and click Next.
Select a layout to place its components as shown below.
Click Select. You view a layout editor with the chosen layout blocks marked using dashed lines as shown below. Now the dashboard is persisted to the disk.
Click Dashboards in the top menu, to view the new dashboard added to the list of all available dashboards as shown below.
You can edit, view or delete the dashboards using the corresponding options provided.
Adding pages to the dashboard
For instructions on adding pages to the dashboard you created, see Adding Pages to a Dashboard.
Adding a layout to a page
For instructions on adding a layout to a page you created, see Adding a Layout to a Page.
Adding gadgets to a layout
For instructions on adding gadgets to a layout of a page you created, see Adding Gadgets to a Layout.
Setting permissions of a dashboard