Dashboard (Grafana)
The FileWave dashboard is a collection of custom code and open-source solutions. We'll give you the beginner's guide here for customizing your dashboard up to some more advanced topics.
FileWave Dashboard Overview
What the Dashboard shows The FileWave Dashboard turns server, client, and deployment data into su...
1.0 Dashboard Basics
In this section, we'll take a look at basic access to the FileWave dashboard and give information...
Access the FileWave Dashboard
Dashboard access requirements A FileWave administrator account needs explicit permission to open ...
1.2 Default Dashboard
What When you open the dashboard, FileWave shows the default system dashboard: When/Why The defa...
1.3 FileWave Provided Dashboards
What FileWave includes several default dashboards. Some are useful for day-to-day admin checks, w...
1.4 Switching Between Dashboards
What Use dashboards to move between FileWave data views after you log in. When/Why Different dash...
1.5 Dashboard Panel/Widget Layout
What Dashboard panels/widgets can be moved and resized so the dashboard shows the most useful inf...
1.6 Exposing an Association to Dashboard
What FileWave can expose an association to the Dashboard so deployment progress is visible as a D...
Importing a Grafana Dashboard
What If another FileWave environment already has a useful Grafana dashboard, you can import its d...
2.0 Custom Dashboards for Beginners
Once you get the hang of the elements that are provided for you automatically, you may want to ta...
Using Grafana for Data Aggregation
What Grafana dashboards in FileWave can aggregate report data, such as grouping devices by FileWa...
2.1 Creating Your Own Dashboard
What FileWave dashboards can be customized. You can start with the included dashboards, then buil...
2.2 Copying Widgets (Panels)
What Copy an existing Grafana panel, called a widget in this KB series, when another dashboard al...
2.2.1 Copied Panel is Blank
What If a copied dashboard panel is blank, recreate the variables that the panel expects in the d...
2.3 Dashboard Widget and Panel Elements
What Every FileWave dashboard panel, also called a widget, is built from the same basic elements....
2.4 Creating a New Panel (existing data)
What Dashboard panels can use existing FileWave Inventory Reports (formerly Queries) as their dat...
3.0 Advanced Dashboard Primer
Aren't you an intrepid explorer! Look at you jumping right to the advanced section! Well, we ar...
3.1 Aggregating Data
What The FileWave dashboard can show raw device data, but aggregated data is what gives you the q...
3.1.1 Group FileWave Report Data with Prometheus
What this does Prometheus can aggregate fields from a FileWave Inventory Report so Grafana can di...
3.1.2 Testing the Prometheus Scrape
What If a scrape target does not appear in Grafana, first check whether Prometheus can see the jo...
3.1.3 "Exploring" Your New Aggregate Data
What Before you build a formal Grafana panel, it often helps to look at the aggregated data direc...
3.1.4 Creating your Data Panel
What Once your aggregated metric is available in Grafana, you can turn it into a panel that answe...
3.2 Extra Metrics for FileWave Dashboard
What Extra Metrics adds Extra Metrics is a third-party tool that creates FileWave Dashboard repor...
4.0 Dashboard Alerts
With the Custom Dashboards configured you can now choose to configure email alerts based upon con...
5.0 Grafana Plugins
Troubleshooting
Custom Grafana Dashboard - YML Files not being processed
What A custom Grafana dashboard may stop processing data from YML files after the FileWave API ke...
Resolving “Login failed: User sync failed” Error in Grafana
What This article explains how to resolve the “Login failed: User sync failed” error when an admi...