Configuring Workspaces Widgets

Most widgets in Workspaces can be configured after you add them to a workspace. How much you configure depends on the widget: some open a multistep dialog, some open a single dialog, and some display fixed content with little or no configuration. This topic explains how to open a widget's configuration and provides a high-level overview of the widget types and where to find the steps for each. For the full catalog of widgets, see List of Widgets.

Opening the widget configuration

To configure a widget:

1. Enter edit mode on the workspace.

2. Open the widget menu (ellipsis on the widget header).

3. Click Configure.

The configuration dialog that opens depends on the widget. The Data Store widget opens a multistep wizard, while most other configurable widgets open a single dialog. Widgets that display fixed summaries or navigation content may have no configuration.

Data and analysis widgets

These widgets query and visualize data, or act as controls that drive other widgets.

• Data Store: The primary data widget. It uses a multistep dialog for query, filters, visualization, and interactions. See Configuring the Data Store Widget.

• Metric Categories: Defines metric categories that users choose to send metrics to other widgets. See Configuring the Metric Categories Widget.

• Metadata Search: Searches metadata for entities and sends results to other widgets. See Configuring the Metadata Search Widget.

• Vantage Point: A control that passes a selected vantage point to other widgets. See Configuring the Vantage Point Widget.

• Inputs Selector: A control that drives multiple Data Store widgets with shared parameters, such as metrics, vantage points, or a time interval. See Configuring the Inputs Selector Widget.

Runbook and automation widgets

These widgets show runbook An automated workflow that executes a series of steps or tasks in response to a triggered event, such as the detection of anomalous behavior generating an incident, a lifecycle event, or a manually executed runbook. output or automation usage statistics.

• Runbook: Displays output from an on-demand runbook that you choose. See Configuring the Runbook Widget.

• Usage widgets: Daily Runbook Runs, Runbook Runs Totals, Daily Node Totals, Node Totals, and Time Savings share a date range setting. See Configuring Monitor Usage Widgets.

• Runbooks Summary: Shows a summary of runbooks by type and requires little configuration.

Impact and incident widgets

These widgets require the impact and incidents feature to be enabled.

• Impacted Locations and Services: A bar chart of impacted locations or services. See Configuring the Impacted Locations and Services Widget.

• Hourly Incident Backlog: A time series of incident trends by priority. See Configuring the Hourly Incident Backlog Widget.

• Other impact widgets: Incidents by User Impact, Incident Distribution, and Impact Summary Filters display incident data with minimal configuration.

Content widgets

• Text: Displays custom text with markup for titles, instructions, or notes. See Configuring the Text Widget.

Summary and navigation widgets

Summary and navigation widgets, such as Data Sources Summary, Integrations Summary, Workspaces Summary, Recently Viewed, and What's New, display fixed content and generally require no configuration. For the full list, see List of Widgets.