Dashboard: Build a Custom Dashboard
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Dashboard: Build a Custom Dashboard

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Dashboard: Build a Custom Dashboard

Create and customize dashboards to get visibility into areas of interest in your network.
Where Can I Use This?
What Do I Need?
  • Prisma Access (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
  • NGFW (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
  • VM-Series, funded with Software NGFW Credits
  • AIOps for NGFW Premium license (use the Strata Cloud Manager app)
    license
  • A role that has permission to create a dashboard
  • Prisma Access
    license
Apart from the default dashboards, you can create custom dashboards to get visibility into areas of your interest in your network using widgets. Widgets are components used to create a dashboard. Widgets are categorized and stored in widget library. Click
Dashboards
+
and select a category from the drop down list to view the widgets. The widgets available in the widget library depend on your security services subscriptions. For example, if you have
AIOps for NGFW Premium
and
Advanced WildFire
licenses, you can view and use all the widgets under WildFire category to create dashboard.
These are the widget categories available to create a dashboard. Refer to the links below to know the license requirements to access widgets under these categories and learn about them.

Create a Dashboard

You can add up to 10 widgets in a custom dashboard and create 10 custom dashboards per user. The dashboard and widgets can be customized at any time. You can customize the widget tile, description, show or hide filters, dashboard settings such as layout, dashboard name, and descriptions, and also include filters in the dashboard.

  1. Click
    Dashboards
    +
    .
  2. Enter a name for the dashboard.
  3. Select a widget category from the Widget Library drop-down.
  4. Add the widget to the dashboard - Hover the mouse over the widget to learn about the widget. Drag and drop the widget to the dashboard canvas.
    You can add more widgets of the same or different types from another widget category to the dashboard canvas.
  5. Switch between the
    Sample Data
    and
    Real Data
    view to know how your dashboard widget looks. Sample data helps you visualize how your dashboard will look and what type of information you can see. Use the
    Real Data
    option to view the actual data for your deployment.
  6. (
    Optional
    ) You can customize the dashboard in the editor view:
    • Rearrange the widgets in the dashboard - select the widget and drag and drop where required in the canvas.
    • Edit a widget - Use the edit icon at the top-right corner of each widget to edit the widget settings. The settings available depend on the widget and are not the same across all widgets. For example, you can edit the widget name, description, and options to filter and sort the data in the widget such as verdict, action.
      You can edit the widget settings in the editor view or after you save the dashboard.
  7. Save the dashboard and click
    Go to see dashboard
    at the top of the page to open the dashboard.
  8. (
    Optional
    ) After you save the dashboard, you can:
    • change the time range for which you want to view the dashboard data.
      You can change the time only after you save the dashboard. In the editor view, the time range defaults to 24 hours.
    • use the edit or delete icon to modify or delete the custom dashboard.

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