Dashboards

Overview

A dashboard is Datadog’s tool for visually tracking, analyzing, and displaying key performance metrics, which enable you to monitor the health of your infrastructure.

Note: View Dashboards with the Datadog Mobile App, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

New dashboard

To create a dashboard, click +New Dashboard on the Dashboard List page or New Dashboard from the navigation menu. Enter a dashboard name and choose a layout option.

Dashboards

Dashboards are on a grid-based layout, which can include a variety of objects such as images, graphs, and logs. They are commonly used as status boards or storytelling views which update in realtime, and can represent fixed points in the past. They have a maximum width of 12 grid squares and also work well for debugging.

Timeboards

Timeboards have automatic layouts, and represent a single point in time—either fixed or real-time—across the entire dashboard. They are commonly used for troubleshooting, correlation, and general data exploration.

Screenboards

Screenboards are dashboards with free-form layouts which can include a variety of objects such as images, graphs, and logs. They are commonly used as status boards or storytelling views that update in real-time or represent fixed points in the past.

Refresh rate

The refresh rate of a private dashboard depends on the time frame you are viewing. The shorter the time frame is, the more frequently the data is refreshed. Publicly shared dashboards refresh every thirty seconds, regardless of the selected time frame.

Dashboard list

Search, view, or create dashboards and lists on the Dashboard List page.

Teams

Use the My Teams toggle to switch between viewing all dashboards and only dashboards owned by your teams.

To edit the teams associated with one or more dashboards, take the following steps:

1. Select the checkbox next to each dashboard you wish to modify.
2. Open the Edit Teams dropdown in the upper right.
3. Use the checkboxes to select the appropriate teams for the dashboards.
4. Click Apply Changes.

New list

To create a dashboard list, click on the New List + button in the upper right.

The list’s title is automatically set with the user’s first name. For example, if John Doe creates a dashboard, the default title is John's list. To change a list’s title, click on the title for the text to become editable.

To add dashboards to a list, select their corresponding check boxes in the main Dashboard list. Then click on the Add to List button in the upper right corner of the Dashboard list:

Lists

The left sidebar displays favorite, preset, and shared, editable lists. You can hide this sidebar using the Hide Controls link.

Favorite lists

Favorite lists are dashboard lists starred by the current logged in user. Note: If you have no starred lists, the Favorite Lists category is hidden.

Preset lists

Preset lists are default dashboard lists in Datadog:

Restore deleted Dashboards

Use the preset Recently Deleted list to restore deleted dashboards. From the list, select all dashboards to restore and click Restore to. Select a specific list to restore the dashboards to, or select All Custom to restore them without a custom list. Dashboards in Recently Deleted are permanently deleted after 30 days.

Shared, editable lists

This section displays shared, editable dashboard lists with the number of dashboards in each list.

All dashboards

All dashboards listed are sortable using the column headers Star, Name, Modified, and Popularity. All columns with descriptions are listed below:

Popularity

An organization’s most popular dashboard displays five popularity bars. All other dashboards are relative to this dashboard. Popularity is based on the amount of traffic a dashboard receives. Popularity is updated daily; new dashboards have zero popularity bars for up to 24 hours.

Note: Traffic to public dashboard URLs is ignored for popularity.

Viewing dashboards on mobile devices

The Datadog Mobile App, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, enables you to view your dashboards in a mobile-friendly format.

On the Dashboards page, you can view and search all of your dashboards, and filter them using the same template variables you have set up in the Datadog web app. Quickly filter your dashboards using template variable saved views. For more information about template variable saved views, see Dashboard Saved Views. Click on an individual dashboard to view it.

Note: To set up or edit a dashboard, you must log in to the Datadog browser UI.

Creating mobile home screen dashboards

The Datadog Mobile App, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, also comes equipped with mobile home screen widgets. These widgets enable you to monitor service health and infrastructure without having to open the mobile app.

You can add SLOs, Monitors, and Open Incidents widgets to your mobile home screen alongside other development and collaboration tools to optimize your triage and incident management workflows.

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Check out the latest Datadog Dashboards releases! (App login required).RELEASE NOTES Enhance your Dashboards with Template VariablesDOCUMENTATION Use associated template variables to refine your dashboardsBLOG Share your Graphs outside of DatadogDOCUMENTATION Discover all available Widgets for your DashboardDOCUMENTATION View your Dashboards on the Mobile AppDOCUMENTATION Add Dashboard widgets to your clipboardBLOG The new Datadog dashboards experienceBLOG Create great integration dashboardsDEVELOPER DOCS Join an interactive session on better visualizations with DashboardsFOUNDATION ENABLEMENT