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 Intro
What The FileWave Dashboard provides summary information about your FileWave server, your deploy...
1.0 Dashboard Basics
In this section, we'll take a look at basic access to the FileWave dashboard and give information...
1.1 Accessing the FileWave Dashboard
What Your account will need permission to access the FileWave Dashboard. When/Why There are th...
1.2 Default Dashboard
What Once you access the dashboard, you are going to be presented with a default system dashboar...
1.3 FileWave Provided Dashboards
What FileWave provides a number of default dashboards, some of which will be useful to you direc...
1.4 Switching Between Dashboards
What Switching between various dashboards is the first thing you are going to want to do once yo...
1.5 Dashboard Panel/Widget Layout
What The dashboard panels are highly customizable and allow you to change the appearance of your...
1.6 Exposing an Association to Dashboard (v14+)
What With the new FileWave Dashboard, it is possible to track the status of any deployment graph...
Importing a Grafana Dashboard
What There's no need to build a grafana dashboard from scratch if you can "borrow" one from a fr...
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 has been included within FileWave for quite some time, but only with a recent updat...
2.1 Creating Your Own Dashboard
What The beauty of the FileWave dashboard isn't in what we give you...although we definitely giv...
2.2 Copying Widgets (Panels)
What If we have the power to create our own dashboards, then surely we must be able to add conte...
2.2.1 Copied Panel is Blank
What In certain circumstances, when you copy/paste a panel into another dashboard, you may find ...
2.3 Widget/Panel Elements
What All panels (or widgets) on the FileWave dashboard are comprised of the same basic elements....
2.4 Creating a New Panel (existing data)
What It is possible in the FileWave dashboard to add panels directly from an inventory query (re...
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 Up until now, we have been talking about the capability of the FileWave dashboard to show d...
3.1.1 Grouping Data Using Prometheus
What In order to do summary reporting, we need to leverage the power of Prometheus. When/Why A...
3.1.2 Testing the Prometheus Scrape
What Assume for a moment you made a typo in the yml file, or some other problem occurs and your ...
3.1.3 "Exploring" Your New Aggregate Data
What We don't have to jump right in to creating a proper reporting panel for our new data. Many...
3.1.4 Creating your Data Panel
What Now that we have our data being passed over to the dashboard, and we know how to access it,...
3.2 Extra Metrics
What We learned in the 3.1 section how to build our own custom panels. "Extra Metrics" is an in...
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 You may notice that your Grafana dashboard won’t process data from YML files. This can happ...
Resolving “Login failed: User sync failed” Error in Grafana
What This article addresses the issue of encountering a “Login failed: User sync failed” error w...