Getting Started with Workspaces

Purpose

Workspaces gives you a customizable, interactive environment for analyzing network and application data across Riverbed products. Unlike static dashboards or reports, Workspaces are dynamic and designed for hands-on investigation. You can drill into live telemetry, build step-by-step workflows, or use and customize prebuilt workspaces for common performance issues.

What Workspaces consists of

Workspaces has two main components:

  1. Data Forensics: An interface for unscripted, panel-based investigation. You start from a main table, add panels of charts and tables below it, and drill down by selecting rows and adding visualizations. Selections in the table or in a panel filter everything below it.

  2. Workspaces Library: A collection of preconfigured and user-saved workspaces. Each workspace is a grid of widgets (charts, tables, runbooks, and others) that you open, run, and optionally customize. You select a workspace from a list to load it.

For a clear comparison of the two and when to use each, see Understanding Data Forensics and the Workspaces Library. To choose the right tool for your task, see Choosing the Right Workspaces Module.

Note: In Data Forensics, a workflow is a troubleshooting sequence you build using the main table and panels. In the Workspaces Library, a workspace is a saved grid of widgets that you open or customize.