Manage dashboards

• Create a dashboard folder

• Manage dashboards

  • Dashboard folder page

  • Dashboard permissions

• Export and import dashboards

  • Export a dashboard

  • Import a dashboard

A dashboard is a set of one or more panels that visually presents your data in one or more rows.

This topic includes techniques you can use to manage your Algology dashboards

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Create a dashboard folder

Folders help you organize and group dashboards, which is useful when you have many dashboards or multiple teams using the same Algology instance.

Before you begin:

• Ensure that you have Algology permissions.

To create a dashboard folder:

1. Sign in to Algoreus and go to Algology.

2. Click Dashboards in the left-side menu.

3. On the Dashboards page, click New and select New folder in the dropdown.

4. Enter a unique name and click Create.

When you save a dashboard, you can either select a folder for the dashboard to be saved in or create a new folder.

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Manage dashboards

On the Dashboards page, you can:

• create a folder

• create a dashboard

• move dashboards into folders

• delete multiple dashboards

• navigate to a folder page where you can assign folder and dashboard permissions

Dashboard folder page

You can complete the following tasks on a dashboard folder page:

• Move or delete dashboards in a folder

• Rename a folder (available on the Settings tab)

• Assign permissions to folders (which are inherited by the dashboards in the folder)

To navigate to the dashboard folder page, hover over the name of the folder and click Go to folder in the dashboard search result list or on the Dashboards page.

Dashboard permissions

You can assign permissions to a folder. Any permissions you assign are inherited by the dashboards in the folder. An Access Control List is used where Organization Role, Team, and a User can be assigned permissions.

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Export and import dashboards

You can use the Algology UI to export and import dashboards.

Export a dashboard

The dashboard export action creates a Algology JSON file that contains everything you need, including layout, variables, styles, data sources, queries, and so on, so that you can later import the dashboard.

1. Click Dashboards in the left-side menu.

2. Open the dashboard you want to export.

3. Click the Share icon.

4. Click Export.

5. Click Save to file.

Algology downloads a JSON file to your local machine.

Make a dashboard portable

If you want to export a dashboard for others to use, you can add template variables for things like a metric prefix (use a constant variable) and server name.

A template variable of the type Constant will automatically be hidden in the dashboard, and will also be added as a required input when the dashboard is imported.

Import a dashboard

1. Click Dashboards in the left-side menu.

2. Click New and select Import in the dropdown menu.

3. Perform one of the following steps:

   • Upload a dashboard JSON file

   • Paste a dashboard URL

   • Paste dashboard JSON text directly into the text area

The import process enables you to change the name of the dashboard, pick the data source you want the dashboard to use, and specify any metric prefixes (if the dashboard uses any).

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