FileWave Dashboard Overview
What the Dashboard shows
The FileWave Dashboard providesturns server, client, and deployment data into summary informationviews aboutthat yourare FileWaveeasier server,to yourmonitor deployments,than individual records. Use it for environment health, deployment progress, operational trends, and prettyhigh-level much anything else you'd like to know about your FileWave environment.reporting.
When/Why
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Use a dashboard when a recurring question is whenbest summaryanswered 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 important to you, particularly regarding server performance and deployment progress. It is a greatsummary; toolinvestigate tothe communicateunderlying withFileWave seniorrecords management,before or to simply keep a watchful eyeacting on youran environment.unexpected result.
How it works
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- Grafana
(graphing engine):documentation: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/ - Prometheus
(data scraping/monitoring):documentation: https://prometheus.io/docs/