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.

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.

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	Click to create a copy of the tile on the current dashboard.
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.
Edit JSON	Click to open the edit JSON pane for the dashboard.
Export image	Downloads a .png image of the dashboard in its current state.
Force refresh	Immediately refreshes the data for every tile on the dashboard.
Delete	This permanently removes the dashboard and cannot be undone.

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