FileWave Dashboard Overview

What the Dashboard shows

The Grafana-based FileWave Dashboard turns server, client, and deployment data into summary views that are easier to monitor than individual records. Use it for environment health, deployment progress, operational trends, and high-level reporting. This is separate from the built-in FileWave Central Dashboard, which shows service status, synchronization, licensing, and alerts.

When to use it

Use a dashboard when a recurring question is best answered visually: whether a deployment is progressing, which conditions need attention, or how an environment changes over time. Dashboards can also provide a concise status view for service owners and leadership without requiring them to navigate individual device records. Dashboard data is a summary; investigate the underlying FileWave records before acting on an unexpected result.

How it works

FileWave Dashboard content is built with Grafana for visualization and Prometheus for monitoring data. Start with Access the FileWave Dashboard to confirm administrator permissions. Read-Only Access is enough to view dashboards; creating or editing panels requires Read-Write Access. Choose the data path that matches the result you need:

• For a table of individual report rows, follow Creating a New Panel (existing data).
• For counts grouped by a field such as Client version, follow Using Grafana for Data Aggregation.
• For metrics collected over time through Prometheus, start with Aggregating Data, then test the scrape and inspect the result before building a panel. Hosted customers should ask FileWave Technical Support to handle server-side scrape configuration.

The upstream projects provide additional reference material:

• Grafana documentation: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/
• Prometheus documentation: https://prometheus.io/docs/