reports dashboard General overview of widgets, including
the various ways of creating and adding widgets.
Widgets are visual components that enable
you to analyze data internally or externally from Cortex XSOAR,
in different formats such as graphs, pie charts, text from information,
and so on.
Cortex XSOAR comes with a number of out-of-the-box
system widgets, such as
Today’s New Incidents
,
Late
Incidents
, and Saved by Dbot,
etc. You can edit these widgets, when creating or editing a dashboard
or report.
Some out-of-the-box system widgets are
not editable. If you want to change these widgets, go to the github widgets repository,
download, update the JSON file, and upload it to the
Widgets Library
.
You can create widgets from the following and then add them to
a dashboard or report, as
required:
JSON file:
these are static widgets and display relatively straightforward
information, such as grouping incidents severity by type, active incidents
by type, and so on.
Automation Script:
you can create dynamic widgets using automation scripts for more
complex calculations, such as calculating the percentage of incidents
that DBot closed. The automation script can pull information from
the Cortex XSOAR API. For examples, see Script Based Widgets Using Automation Scripts Examples.
If
you want to add a script based widget to a dashboard or report,
you need to create a widget in the
If you have a significant numbers of widgets, performance
may be affected. You should try to keep widgets simple (no scripts)
and refresh times higher than 1 minute whenever possible.
