Dashboard settings

Your dashboard settings can be configured using the various buttons and options available on the page.

Dashboard timeframe

The dashboard timeframe setting lets you choose the time span that a dashboard displays data for. For example, instead of showing data from the last 12 hours, you can choose to show data from the last 7 days.

Tiles on a dashboard inherit that dashboard's timeframe by default, meaning that the tile data shown changes whenever you change the dashboard timeframe. However, you can instead choose to set a fixed timeframe for a tile via its timeframe setting.

Fixed-timeframe tiles display their set timeframe in a bubble next to their title and the tile data does not change when the dashboard timeframe is changed.

Tile fixed timeframe
If all the tiles on a dashboard use a fixed timeframe then the timeframe dropdown is disabled. Likewise, if a specific timeframe is unsupported then it is disabled in the dropdown.

You should indicate if a tile's timeframe can be changed in the name of a tile. For example, naming a tile Performance during the last week indicated that the tile always displays data for the last week.

Setting a default timeframe

To set the default timeframe for a dashboard, click the pin

next to an option in the timeframe dropdown. This sets the initial timeframe for all viewers of the dashboard, including shared dashboards.
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Cache refresh intervals

As well as determining the period for the data that displays, the dashboard timeframe also controls the cache refresh frequency of that data. In other words, the timeframe you pick also affects how "fresh" that data is.

Dashboard timeframe
Cache expiry
1 hour
1 minute
12 hours
5 minutes
24 hours
15 minutes
7 days
6 hours
30 days
12 hours
Up to 6 months
24 hours
Over 6 months
7 days

Dashboard editing options

Click the More options ellipsis button at the top-right of the dashboard to display the following options.

Option
Description
Clone
Create a copy of the whole dashboard, for example, if you wish to copy the layout but change the information slightly.
Copy to
Create a copy of the dashboard to another workspace. This also copies any data sources and monitoring to the newly created dashboard.
Edit JSON
For advanced dashboard editing.
Force refresh
Immediately refreshes the data for every tile on the dashboard.
Delete
This permanently removes the dashboard and cannot be undone.

Tile settings

You can also access settings for individual tiles from a dashboard, and perform actions such as refreshing data for a tile or copying it to another dashboard.

Fixed timeframe notification

Any tiles that have a fixed timeframe display a grey pill icon indicating the fixed timeframe value.

Scope limit notification

You can view tile scope limit information by hovering over the info

button when it appears at the top of a tile. This button is present on out of the box dashboards and alerts you to the number of objects automatically selected for that tile.

Tile fullscreen view

Tiles can be expanded viewed in fullscreen mode by selecting More options > Full screen. In fullscreen mode, the tile's visualization is enlarged and its Data table is displayed below.

Tile editing options

Hover over a tile on a dashboard to display the following options.

Option
Description
Full screen
Opens the tile in fullscreen mode.
Force refresh
Immediately refreshes the tile.
More options
Click to access the following options:
  • Edit
    : Edit the tile contents.
  • Full screen
    : Open the tile in fullscreen mode.
  • Explore data
    : Open the tile's data stream in the data explorer.
  • Copy to
    : Create a copy of the tile to another workspace or dashboard. This also copies any data sources and monitoring to the newly created tile.
  • Export
    : Downloads a .png image of the tile in its current state.
  • Copy data
    : Copies the current Data table information for the tile.
  • Force refresh
    : Immediately refreshes the tile.
  • Delete:This permanently removes the tile and cannot be undone.

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