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 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 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 FileWave dashboards can be customized. You can start with the included dashboards, then buil...
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 The FileWave dashboard can show raw device data, but aggregated data is what gives you the q...
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 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
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 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...