Sysdig Monitor - How to Create Custom Dashboards from Scratch
Hi, I'm Mark Fulton with Sysdig customer success.
Today we'll learn about creating dashboards in Sysdig Monitor.
Let's take a closer look at dashboard customization in Sysdig Monitor.
Learn more about Sysdig Monitor: https://sysdig.com/products/monitor/
This is going to be where we can create a dashboard from scratch.
So when we're in the Sysdig Monitor UI, click on dashboards on the left, and then it'll bring you into this dashboard screen. You can see that dashboards are split into three sections.
You have dashboards that the user has created so your own dashboards you have dashboards that you are sharing with other team members and then you also have dashboards that other team members are sharing with you.
We will explore the sharing concepts in another video, but for now, let's take a look at how to create a new dashboard from scratch. In the top right you'll see an add dashboard menu.
So this is going to look at all of the integrations that are enabled in your environment both orchestration and orchestrator apps and any custom app checks and then define a list of out-of-the-box ready to use dashboards in accordance with what has been auto-detected.
So you can see that we're using AWS and we're using these applications in our environment as well
as Kubernetes. So just like the groupings, we're going to only show dashboards that are relevant for the infrastructure scene in our environment.
You'll see top dashboards listed here so these are some of the most popular or common ones and might be considered maybe some of the basic things that you might want to monitor.
You also have an option to just create a blank slate, a blank dashboard, and then build your own panels on the dashboard yourself.
Our recommendation for new Sysdig users is to definitely start with one of the dashboards that's out of the box to see if that will meet your monitoring needs or monitoring use cases and then really just kind of tweak things from there.
So to do that using the search tool is is definitely a good method so you can search for example by the orchestrator name so Kubernetes or Docker Swarm and you'll see Kubernetes related dashboards.
You can search by an application and you'll be able to find the individual application listed out there or if you just want overview dashboards then that's also a good term to use to find those.
Now naming the dashboard usually it can make sense to name the dashboard in accordance with what it is going to scope in your environment.
So if you want the dashboard to monitor all infrastructure then you can call it all infrastructure.
If you just wanted to scope it to a specific service or namespace then you can also use that as a naming convention.
So now that we've created our dashboard you can see that by default it's going to pre-populate the panels for it.
Now by default, we're going to scope to everywhere in the infrastructure.
So a good first step might be for us to go ahead and edit that scope to the entity or entities that we want to monitor.
So let's do a search here and let's see if we can find some namespaces that we want to monitor.
And again the great thing about Sysdig is it's only going to show you relevant results based on entities that have been picked up or detected in the environment.
So all of these namespaces will exist we're not going to display anything sort of that might be unexpected here in the menu.
We do allow multiple selections so you can see here I've been able to select two different Kubernetes namespaces.
We could also go a step further and then pick something else like if we want to limit it maybe by a WS region US East 1- B we could also do that.
We're gonna hit save here and you can see that updates what we call the default scope of the dashboard.
That means that by default all of these panels are going to inherit this scoping.
So you can see that the default size of those panels was sort of about the half-width of this section but it may be something that in this case we want to bring it in a little bit just to get be able to see the data a little bit better.
As before as well note that the timescale at the bottom is applying here so we're now seeing the
last hour of data in this instance.
And note also that you will see this UI overlay here when you make any changes to the dashboard.
So it will not autosave those, this is by design in case you make a mistake it's easy to go ahead and
revert those. You can also manually move these panels around the dashboard.
And again if we make a mistake we can revert we can also manually just resize make them as small
or large as we want and the UI is going to auto-scale the axis on those accordingly.
Thanks for watching this short over the video on creating dashboards next time we'll look at
customizing panels.
Learn more about Sysdig Monitor: https://sysdig.com/products/monitor/
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